Reddit reviews Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

There is a Neil Gaiman short story where the 12 months of the year are telling stories around a campfire.
In one of his short story collections:
http://www.amazon.com/Fragile-Things-Short-Fictions-Wonders/dp/0060515236

Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy is, as the title would suggest, three novellas in one volume. I'll give you a segment from my favorite blurb about this book"

> Ostensibly presented as detective fiction, the stories of The New York Trilogy have been described as "meta-detective-fiction", "anti-detective fiction", "mysteries about mysteries", a "strangely humorous working of the detective novel", "very soft-boiled", a "metamystery" and a "mixture between the detective story and the nouveau roman"

Also worth checking out is Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things. Because Neil Gaiman.

I love Neil Gaiman's short story collections, Smoke and Mirrors, and Fragile Things. They're mostly dark but some are humorous and some are just a little odd. They even include a variety of poetry.

You're going to love it!

As a Gaiman related aside, Neverwhere is top notch and I personally think that Fragile Things is his finest story collection. Some real gems in that one.

You should check out any of Neil Gaiman's short story compilations
like Smoke and Mirrors (Smoke and Mirrors) or Fragile Things (Fragile Things). Also, Stories: All-New Tales Edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio (Stories: All-New Tales Edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio) and My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me (My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me) are a couple of great short-story anthologies that have some very strange/creepy moments.

Edit: Links in this subreddit tend to be pretty illegible, so I have included the titles of each book in parenthesis after the links for immediate legibility's sake).

He's my favorite, you should pick up his [short stories](http://www.amazon.com/Fragile-Things-Short-Fictions-Wonders/dp/0060515236/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298983124&sr=1-1 "One of his colections of shorts; Fragile Things"), this is where he really shines.

I honestly would not start with Good Omens. It's a brilliant book, but has very little of Neil Gaiman's writing style. His influence seems to be more in the plot and a bit of darkness here and there; whereas the writing is more Terry Pratchett than Neil Gaiman.

I highly recommend you start with one of his short story collections, like Smoke & Mirrors or Fragile Things. His Sandman graphic novels are also a great start in my opinion.