Stories: All-New Tales (2010)

Overall this book was worth the read but like most anthologies contained its fair share of tedium. Also, the fact that i usually read genre fiction and these stories aren't genre fiction didn't help matters really.

I'm not gonna go through this story by story. The best story by far was Wildfire in Manhattan and was about the Old Gods in a modern city setting. Was very good indeed and almost made this book worth the price on its own.

An OK read, apart from Wildfire in Manhattan which was exceptional.
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the characters, the settings, the road trip, everyone's relationships to one another and to regret, and time and accident, and to what might have been, i loved the ebb and flow of all of it. ( )

I did this an an audio book. Overall it was good but, as it's an anthology, not surprising it's uneven. Some of the stories are more compelling and some of the readings are stronger. ( )

First of all the amount of top shelf writers! Gaiman, Straub, Palahniuk, Deaver all living up to their reputations. Joe Hill made his story more intriguing by having the paragraphs mimic a staircase in his story The Devil and the Staircase. Picoult's story Weights and Measure is so heartbreaking and after reading Moseley's Juvenal Nyx, I believe I have a new author I want to check out. Highly recommend this book. I read these stories until I couldn't stay awake, then read the rest as soon as I woke up! ( )

I have a theory that the more well known an author is, the less he gets edited. Here is what a good editor would have said to him: "Neil, I know these stories are by your buddies and are an homage to your genre. But most of these stories are poorly written, boring, unoriginal and lack any true emotion. Some are even down right embarrassing. The best are mediocre. This book would never have gotten published without your name on the cover."

I forced myself to finish the book, hoping in the name of Gaiman to find at least one gem in the collection. I suffered through this, so you my dear friends, might be spared. Skip this book. ( )