The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House
ISBN: 0930289595 Global Overview for this book
11 journalers for this copy...
Book 2 in the series: We meet Dream's long lost love; go on a journey with Rose Walker, meet Fiddler's Green, Barbie and Ken (Oh, yes! ;), the twins Chantal and Zelda who own the biggest collection of suffed spiders and Martin Tenbones. And then there is the convention of serial killers who are nothing in comparison with one of Dream's little dreams gone wild.
Small advise: try and keep track of the characters a bit. Some of them become more important in the series than it may seem at this point
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The rules for the spiral stay the same:
- I will send the first book out to the first participant who will then pass it on to Nr. 2 and so on.
- As soon as the first book is released by the 5th participant I will send out the 2nd book.
- As soon as the first book is back with me I will send out book 3 and so on...
So the faster you pass them on the sooner you will get the next one.
- Before I send out the next book in the series I might contact all participants whether they are still interested in the next round.
- Please keep the books for a maximum of three weeks. They are all graphic novels and don't take that long to read. If you are too busy once it is your turn please PM me and I will move you further to the end. I cannot do this too often though as that would mess up the spiral system.
- It kind of goes without saying but please please handle the books with great care. Thank you!
- As this will be a long term commitment if you want to read all 11 books please consider carefully before signing up. If you change your mind along the way please let me know.
- I'm afraid I will have to cancel the spiral though if one book gets lost. I can afford to replace one book but don't want to pay for more.
participants (order will slightly change for each book in the series):
1. Xirxe (Germany)
2. SerendipityN (Germany)
3. Tsjara (Netherlands) please post to Nr. 5: KiwiinEngland!
(4. Esme-Weatherwax (Ireland) only Season of Mists (Book 4), World's End (Book 8) and Endless Nights (Book 11))
5. KiwiinEngland (Ireland/UK) kindly offered to take the books across the UK/Ireland border
6. Vekiki (UK)
7. MKtiny (UK)
8. Lunacia (Norway)
9. Appelsiini (Finland)
10. Nell-Lu (UK)
11. vedranaster (Croatia)
and back to me
This Spiral is listed in the BookRing Directory
Link to The Sandman Volume 3: Dream Country
5th December 2010:
This book is really gorgeous, both story and images!
Released 13 yrs ago (12/5/2010 UTC) at Mail, Bookring -- Controlled Releases
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Happy reading!
Xirxe, I especially like the cartoon with the chicken. :)
The story about Morpheus and his friend, "Men of Good Fortune", was nice as well.
The Cereal Convention - very weird and pretty scary!
LilyKlip and I agreed that I'll keep the book until after the holidays, hoping that its journey to Tsjara will be safer without all the Christmas cards and packages travelling as well.
Thank you very much for this ring, LilyKlip!
Merry Christmas to you all!
Released 13 yrs ago (1/6/2011 UTC) at Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
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Will send this to KiwiinEngland sometime this week (together with another book that I have here waiting).
Released 13 yrs ago (2/2/2011 UTC) at Assendelft, Noord-Holland Netherlands
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Hope you'll enjoy it!
Anyway, book 2 was definately a step up and I greatly enjoyed it...some nice atmospheric storylines.
As an aside I'm surprised that so much of the focus in the credits/introduction is on Neil Gaiman.
Released 13 yrs ago (2/12/2011 UTC) at Manchester, Greater Manchester United Kingdom
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Posting on to Vekiki, all wrapped up snuggly in a plastic zip lock bag to keep it clean and in a padded envelope to keep it safe from bumps and bruises.
this little parcel really cheered me up arriving today, thankyou
Released 13 yrs ago (2/27/2011 UTC) at -- Somewhere in London 🤷♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom
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I enjoyed the art work in this book more - but less so the story - contrary to comments above, I found it less coheisisve than book 1. Still fun, but i thought it felt much more like short stories, and the one over-arching plot got sidetracked a lot
The book will be on it's way soon to Nell-Lu.
I must beg you please, please to keep them away for any sort of perfume smell before they head my way, as perfume is one of the things that makes me really ill. :-(
Will read it as soon as the smell is completely gone.
I have PMed Appelsiini for her address. I thought I had it, but seems like I'd managed to delete it. Will send the book off as soon as I get paid (I'm broke at the moment).
Will hopefully be with Appelsiini in not too long.
Released 12 yrs ago (6/6/2011 UTC) at Valkeakoski, Pirkanmaa / Birkaland Finland
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I read it yesterday lunchtime and loved it. It feels like the series started properly here. The characters and stories were a lot more engaging than the Preludes and the world(s) began to feel detailed enough to believe.
I've PMed vedranaster so will send this on when I get an address.
Volume 2 arrived safe and sound to Croatia.
Thanks Nell-Lu (& everyone before) for reading and sending on, and thanks LilyKlip for organizing this spiral.
Nell-Lu, I love the Rabbie bookmark! Thank you!
It brought back fond memories of my visit to his birthplace. :)
I like the second volume, but slightly less than the first one.
I am not completely sure why exactly.
I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm simply not as good at reading comics (i.e. graphic novels) as I used to be. I would have loved to read this whole series as a real novel. Granted, it would be a very weird novel, but I would expect nothing less from Gaiman.
In comic form the story just seems too fragmented to me, and just as I start figuring out who/what fits where a chapter ends and the new one takes me somewhere completely different. So, just as Sandman says at one point, I don't understand all of this and I'm not sure what's going on. ;)
I got a giggle out of this one though, when I saw that the wreck Rose had rented for the drive to see her brother was a Yugo. We used to own a Yugo. *grin*
I am looking forward to the rest of the series, to see if things will start falling into place and making more sense. Though, this being a Sandman graphic novel, about dreaming and weird stuff, it most likely won't, as it befits a dream.
Released 12 yrs ago (7/16/2011 UTC) at Zagreb, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Croatia
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The book is now in the care of the Post Office,
returning to its owner, LilyKlip, in Germany.
Thank you soooo much for sharing! :)
Thanks again everybody for treating the books with so much respect.