Comments on: Start Your Engines: Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman” Readalong http://www.girldetective.net/?p=5947 Reading, Writing, Movies and Mothering in Minneapolis, Mostly Fri, 22 May 2026 18:07:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: girldetective http://www.girldetective.net/?p=5947&cpage=1#comment-42476 girldetective Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:02:13 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=5947#comment-42476 I imagine I'll find a little Homeric stuff in Sandman. That Gaiman guy is pretty edu-ma-cated, literary and whatnot. The readalong plan is this: Sandman and Odyssey for Dec/Jan Ulysses from Feb-Bloomsday Infinite Jest from June solstice to Autumn equinox. Impressive? Or bat$hit crazy? Hard to tell sometimes. I imagine I’ll find a little Homeric stuff in Sandman. That Gaiman guy is pretty edu-ma-cated, literary and whatnot.

The readalong plan is this: Sandman and Odyssey for Dec/Jan
Ulysses from Feb-Bloomsday
Infinite Jest from June solstice to Autumn equinox.

Impressive? Or bat$hit crazy? Hard to tell sometimes.

]]> By: james b chester http://www.girldetective.net/?p=5947&cpage=1#comment-42473 james b chester Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:40:11 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=5947#comment-42473 You have some impressive read-a-long goals here. I wonder if reading The Sandman alongside The Odyssey will produce any insights. Sometimes I think almost everything has already been done somewhere in Homer. You have some impressive read-a-long goals here. I wonder if reading The Sandman alongside The Odyssey will produce any insights. Sometimes I think almost everything has already been done somewhere in Homer.

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