{"id":1967,"date":"2007-06-17T14:47:54","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T14:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2007\/06\/stardust\/"},"modified":"2007-06-17T14:47:54","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T14:47:54","slug":"stardust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/stardust\/","title":{"rendered":"Stardust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0755322827&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nI&#8217;m really not at all sure how I&#8217;ve managed this, but I&#8217;d not previously a Neil Gaiman novel. This is a terrible oversight, since I own more than one, and I&#8217;ve been reading Gaiman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/\">blog<\/a> pretty assiduously for the last two or three years (it&#8217;s really good). I did see the TV series of Neverwhere a few years ago &#8211; and it&#8217;s finally got a DVD release here recently.<br \/>\nI did start a Gaiman novel some years ago, but for whatever reason, stopped after a couple of pages. As it turns out, it was Starburst. Although it took me a few pages to remember. But this time I carried on and was pleased that I did. This is a story largely set in Faerie just beyond the village of Wall. We follow Tristan as he visits the land and goes on many an adventure.<br \/>\nI won&#8217;t say much more as it&#8217;d spoil it for you, but it&#8217;s a wonderful short book and I now realise that I&#8217;ve got a wealth of Gaiman novels (and comics) to catch up on.<br \/>\nOf course it wasn&#8217;t a completely random choice for me to start with Stardust. There&#8217;s a feature film of it coming soon, and I always like to read the novel before I see the film. The film&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stardustmovie.com\/\">trailer<\/a> makes it look sumptuous by the way, although I suspect that the UK version of the trailer has rather more Ricky Gervais in it than is strictly accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really not at all sure how I&#8217;ve managed this, but I&#8217;d not previously a Neil Gaiman novel. This is a terrible oversight, since I own more than one, and I&#8217;ve been reading Gaiman&#8217;s blog pretty assiduously for the last two or three years (it&#8217;s really good). I did see the TV series of Neverwhere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}