I rarely read science-fiction or fantasy books in English. I prefer to watch them as a movie rather than reading page by page of the book forcing my brain to visualize every single detail in it where I was sure it's gonna be exhausting. Like, when you see Coraline (one of Neil Gaiman's masterpiece FYI) in animation movies, it's wonderful. All the dreamy plants, the 'other family' figures, Mr. bobinsky's circus, it were all unbeatable. But if I have to read it, first, I have to read it, translate it, picture it equals to exhaustion. so If I have to read fantasy books, I prefer the Indonesian one. Easy to understand, and not needed so much work just to visualize it perfectly. well, now, this Neil Gaiman's "Fragile Things" really do change my perception.

One month ago, Wita forced me to buy this book just because she wanted to buy "Love The One You're With" (which later she regretted haha) so when she finishes her book, she could borrow mine. Yeah, smart way, Girl. So half heartedly, I bought this book. When I first read it, ok, I have a hard time understanding his language and imagining it at the same time. So I put it down for a couple a days until I completely ran out of 'what to do' so I continued reading it. up to the 3rd stories, I cannot put it down. It's a darker book and I loooove this one. Full of ghosts, zombies, urband legend, unexplainable stories, monsters, magical circus and everything. I mean this is really good. you'll crammed your head with imagination but it's worth it. Too bad they're just short stories and poems so some of all the endings are hanging in mid air. I didn't really read the poems simply because I couldn't understand it. but they have great conceptions. one of the poems (forgot the exact titles) tells the life of a man through his blab when his drunk, the others are characters of a tarot card, and he tried to explain the characters of human through ladies. Hell I am lost of words to describe it. Magically awesome.

Reading and imagining it at the same time wasn't so bad afterall.
I bought the one which looks exactly like this and when I searched it on the internet, it's the greatest cover of the others. Happy reading everyone! :-)