Was a wonderful book. I thought I will share some quotes from the book.

'He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure to many people that you actually had to kill them before they saw the error of their ways...'

'Winners never talk about glorious victories. That’s because they’re the ones who see what the battlefield looks like afterward. It’s only the losers who have glorious victories.'

'And, as is generally the case around the time a prophet is expected, the Church redoubled its efforts to be holy. This was very much like the bustle you get in any large concern when the auditors are expected, but tended towards taking people suspected of being less holy and putting them to death in a hundred ingenious ways. This is considered a reliable barometer of the state of one’s piety in most of the really popular religions.'

'Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings.'


'We died for lies, for centuries we died for lies.’  He waved a hand towards the god.  ‘Now we’ve got a truth to die for!’

‘No.  Men should die for lies.  But the truth is too precious to die for.' 

I mean I knew Granny was powerful, but damn! She is straight up OP in this book!

Also,it has my favorite quote from Discworld so far:

The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.

And here are some other ones:

Animals can't murder. Only us superior races can murder. That's one of the things that sets us apart from animals

In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

The universe doesn't much care if you tread on a butterfly. There are plenty more butterflies. Gods might note the fall of a sparrow but they don't make any effort to catch them. Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.

As I was looking for a book to read by Gaiman, I came across this title. A lot of people have liked it and there were tones of paragraphs written praising the Sandman series by Gaiman. So I rushed to the library and picked this one (couldn't afford to buy this one, way too expensive. But someday!). The book didn't capture my imagination at first. I was like, meh...so there is another book. I kind of got bored and one-third in the book, I left it and picked some other books. Then 2 days back while cleaning my room (yes, I know I should read more. I mean who has time to clean the room?) I saw this one lying around on my chair (you know the chair everyone has in their bedroom?). And I thought, 'Let's give it another try. At least should finish the first volume.' And tell you what, I found the book irresistible. Honestly, couldn't put it down at all. Was up until 5 am in the morning reading it. And the moment I finished it, went to the library to get the second volume. And from what I have read about the series so far, it only gets better. So yaayyy.

I guess, initially there was just the inertia from some other books and hence took me some time to get into this one. Plus getting to know the characters and all and getting accustomed with them took some time as well. Everything said and done, a collection of brilliant stories. And I loved the graphic design of the book as well. Sandman's look is so apt! And Death, she looks so cute (oh well...)!

The only problem was the huge size of the book. If Amazon is to believe (and why would you doubt it anyway?), the book weighs a whopping 3.5 kgs. My laptop is a fifth of that.

Gaiman's narration as usual is dulcet. McAvoy does a brilliant job as dream.

I love how closely Act II follows the dialogues from the original comic books, despite being some obvious modifications to the language/phrases. The book was written over 25 years ago and the modifications are minor, I guess I must not begrudge it too much, since the modifications were done in an obvious attempt to make the language more inclusive/tolerant!

In any case it was narrated brilliantly and I can't recommend it enough!

Welp...that was a timid end to the series! Expected so much more!