- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Titan Books Ltd; New edition edition (11 July 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1852868074
- ISBN-13: 978-1852868079
- Product Dimensions: 25.8 x 16.6 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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This work concludes the "Sandman" series. Morpheus is dead. As his family and friends gather to mourn him, a new Lord of the Dreaming begins to rebuild his realm. The volume ends with "The Tempest", a flashback to a moment in Morpheus' past, concerning a bargain made with William Shakespeare.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read every book in The Sandman series, and this one was a real tearjerker. Every part of Gaiman's legendary series is incredible. I don't know of any other writer who can weave plots into such complex patterns whilst never losing each thread of story, each character, each unique creation. The characters are so vivid, so otherworldly, and yet so REAL. Everything about this series truly embodies how I feel after waking from a strange but not entirely unpleasant dream. Gaiman captures the confusion and beauty of my dreamworld seemingly effortlessly.
By this book in the series there was a part of me that was deeply in love with Morpheus. There's so much depth to this character, and the series up to this point has been about his journey, his growth, his realisation of emotions that had previously been unknown to him. He has become almost too human, a contradiction to his true nature, and he needs to be reborn. The part of him that cannot change has no choice but to die, and he welcomes it with a weariness that is misleading, for if you read the series carefully you get the feeling he planned this all along.
His "replacement" is perfect, and human enough to be a fresh, vibrant rebirth, one that promises to be less foolish, selfish, and cruel as the old.
Honestly, I cried when I read this. There was one particular confession during the Wake from a character we'd only seen briefly before that left me shaken. It's the most perfect off-hand reference and it cuts you to the core.
This is pure genius. If I ever meet Mr Gaiman I'll probably be reduced into a vacantly staring fool, so awed am I by his talent.
I'm ashamed to say that the name of the artists who created this book escape me at the moment, but the artwork in this one was some of the best in the series.
49 of 54 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Sandman by Neil Gaiman is a true literary classic. Forget any preconceptions you may have of so called "funny books", this is a graphic NOVEL, and deserves any praise you can throw at it. Buy all eleven volumes of "The Sandman", you won't look back:
1: Preludes & Nocturnes
2: The Doll's House
3: Dream Country
4: Season Of Mists
5: A Game Of You
6: Fables & Reflections
7: Brief Lives
8: World's End
9: The Kindly Ones
10: The Wake - You're reading this review
11: The Dream Hunter's - Slightly different but still fantastic.
And of course there are two for his surprisingly spunky sister, Death:
1: The High Cost Of Living
2: The Time Of Your Life
Neil Gaiman's Sandman is the pinnacle of graphic novel writing - something you can't do without even if you don't normally read comic books.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In this, the final part of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, the stops are well and truly pulled out. With the end of the first Sandman, Morpheus, all the people who encountered and befriended him throughout his life come to mourn his passing, and mark the arrival of the new Sandman, Daniel (or at least, once Daniel).
The story is told on a massive scale (everyone in the world attends the funeral, plus others), and yet manages to be intimate. The characters of the Endless really come across, but their grief is told rather in how they say what they say, rather than cliched plaititudes.
This is the ultimate Sandman story, and brings an end to the modern mythology, and still, unlike most Hollywood stories and 'high culture' novels, leaves loose ends. As in life, nothing is tidy, nothing perfect. Questions are still unanswered, problems remain. The story continues. We just won't be there to see it.
Brilliantly, heart-achingly good.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A Fitting End to an Excellent Series (spoilers)
The swan song of The Sandman series is all about death and ends. It introduces the reader to a new Dream before helping him/her say goodbye to the Dream they're used to. Read more
Published 14 months ago by pk1225
Worth buying for the in jokes
Don't own the softcover but do own the comics from when they were first released. The thing I remember most about the wake is the many Vertigo in jokes. Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2006
The epilogue(?) of a great series
The king of Dreams is dead. Long live the king." A new Dream takes his place among the Endless. He is Morpheus, only not: "a different point of view", Abel says. Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2000
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