Books Read 2007, #8

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Stardust, by Neil Gaiman. While the movie has been repeatedly compared to "The Princess Bride" in reviews, I didn't really get that so much from the book. Of course, I haven't seen the "Stardust" movie, nor have I yet read "The Princess Bride," so I'm admittedly comparing apples to pomagranates, here. The book is thick with characters whose lives are intertwined in various ways. Characters seemingly pulled out of earlier works by earlier authors are eventually fleshed out and allowed to develop into something other than cariacatures. I do wish I'd bought the edition with the Charles Vess artwork, but the writing stood well enough on its own. This book was fun to read and the plot took just the right number of turns at the end to be satisfying.