Bought "Fragile Things" by Neil Gaiman for Php50! The cashier couldn't believe it's priced so low. National Bookstore (NBS) is on sale (I don't know what else to call it, I'm still euphoric from my find. They have these racks of books labeled "P100 and Below," ""P200 and Below, "P300 and Below" and so on. Visit the nearest NBS Branch, and find out for yourself. I personally went to their Cubao branches,. Last night, I was in their branch adjacent to the Gateway Mall and found an Alice Munro for P99! )Man, it was a deal the moment I saw P50 at a Gaiman.
'Fragile Things' is a collection of Neil Gaiman's short stories
I was about to go into an exposition of who is Neil Gaiman, but hold out, because “wait-the-minute-who-doesn’t-know-Neil-Gaiman?” The Martians, but I’m not so sure. After he made the “Dark Knight” screenplay, I know I have to get a copy of his work. Yes, I knew he was the writer of “The Sandman” but I wasn’t much into graphic novels. I was Gaiman-hooked when I saw “Dark Knight.” Filipino author RJ Ledesma called him “the bard of modern myth” (Ledesma, 2005). The other day I was listening to Mo Twister, he said that Gaiman’s favorite Filipino myth was the “manananggal” Is an “only-in-the-Philippines”? I wonder.
Neil Gaiman in ANC
In a recent interview with RJ Ledesma, Gaiman said that " if I had known about Filipino myth while I was writing the book [American Gods] it would have absolutely made it in there. There will probably be more American Gods books before I die. Shadow’s story (the main protagonist of American Gods) is not over. It is not impossible that you will find some Filipino folkloric figures who have come over and, again, be abandoned in America just like everybody is. That I can completely see happening."
For the interview with RJ Ledesma, click here.
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