Wild Things: YA Grown-Up discussion

Is he the greatest? I've read Anansi Boys, then found out I should have started with American Gods. It was still great!

I also wanna try Coraline and The Graveyard Book.

I'm reading his short story compilation right now Fragile Things Short Fictions and Wonders, but that's prob. technically not YA. He's another one that I'd like to read everything he's ever done, even the children's stuff.

I own Coraline, and want to read The Graveyard book. I plan to very soon, I also own one of his non-YA books that I want to read soon.

But wouldn't you say AG and AB crossover tho, Fiona? I think my copy may have been in the YA section - but now I can't remember.

Yea, Allison, those 2 are supposed to be really good.

didn't Graveyard or Stardust or one of his get the Newberry this year?

Graveyard did, yes as a matter of fact Allison!

*gives a gold star*

*and a balloon animal*

I'm pretty sure Messenger had the F word too - I think it's kind of weird it is considered YA w/the F word, but there it is.

Laura wrote: "Graveyard did, yes as a matter of fact Allison!

*gives a gold star*

*and a balloon animal*"


yay thanks mod Laura!

You're so welcome!

I've only read Stardust, but it did leaving me wanting more of him.

I loved Neverwhere, but I don't think that's considered YA either...

Loved Stardust, although it had a part in it that really made it not YA. I remember thinking to myself "if it weren't for this part, it would be a great YA novel". I need to read Coraline, but I have read the Graveyard Book - this year's Newberry - and LOVED it.

I've only read The Graveyard Book and I thought it was okay. I would get into it while reading it, but when I put it down, I had no real desire to pick it back up. I was going through a reading slump at that time, though, and a lot of what I picked up was put back down without reading. I do want to read more of his books, though. Like Neverwhere and Stardust.

I love love love this author. I could go up to Minessota and become his groupie if I thought my cat would come with. ( The family is on my nerves right now so they are not even being considered LOL)

I listened to hime read his Fragile Things on audio book. I soon realized that talented men with English accents are a very definate weakness of mine

Hey Renee I've been listening to that too! Boy there are some stories in there that will have you on the edge of your seat, others that will turn your stomach, make you laugh, he drives you all over the emotional map with that one! I think M is for Magic is the YA compilation of his. I think Fragile Things can be very Un-YA in parts. But terrific, and not to be missed.

I have recently become a big fan of Neil Gaiman. And I'd never even heard of him until I joined GR, how sad is that?

I've read Good Omens, which I loved. It's got 4 pre-teens as co-main characters, but I wouldn't exactly call this one YA. It's a little too high-brow. I don't mean that in a bad, kids-can't-understand way, just in a very adult British humor way.

I've also read American Gods, and loved that one as well, but agree that it is not YA either.

I own Neverwhere, and have the Ebook of Coraline saved as a favorite on my home computer, and have my boyfriend downloading The Graveyard Book for me, so I imagine I will be reading quite a bit of Gaiman in the coming months, and I couldn't be more pleased. :)

Me too - another author I may have never discovered without GR. He's terrific, love his humor.

I mostly love him, but I a couple of his books were just okay for me. I liked the idea of American Gods more than I liked the way it actually played out. Smoke and Mirrors Short Fictions and Illusions was another, and I do like short stories. Also, the Coraline graphic novel. Maybe I would have liked the actual novel better. But everything else of his that I've read I've loved.

Neverwhere is totally a young adult story, of a boy in a man's body (metaphor)... he grows up at the end of the story (figuratively...as he's already way beyond puberty). It's a great read!