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The Gaiman Library

September 3, 2009 at 11:34 pm | In Home | 21 Comments

Did a fun little blogpost for Shelfari today – a peek into Neil Gaiman’s personal library. Read all about it here.

Extremely cool that Gaiman allowed us to do this, and I certainly spent a whole lot of time looking over his books and saying to myself “Hey, I’ve got that one!” Good fun.

Gaiman (well, his buddy photographer Kyle Cassidy, actually) sent over quite a bit more than I posted over there, but the original blogpost was getting a bit long. So as a special bonus for readers of this blog, here’s a few more photos from Mr. Gaiman’s collection, this time featuring some of his reference books (and, oh yeah, a friggin’ Hugo Award too). Nice!

Click on any of the images for the larger version – you should be able to read the individual titles on the fullsized shots.

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Ha! It’s Vampire Mr. Toast!

Comment by Phill — September 4, 2009 #

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And an Adipose Baby!

Comment by Shanna — September 4, 2009 #

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Adipose plushie!

And freaking gorgeous books. I salivate!

Comment by Priscellie — September 4, 2009 #

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Is that an ADIPOSE in the last picture?!

Comment by Jen — September 4, 2009 #

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That these are not alphabetized makes me twitch. But I long for such a (slightly more organized) library.

Comment by Nico — September 4, 2009 #

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[...] The full set of photographs by Ron Brinkmann can be found here. The nature of the photography gives a real feeling of being present in the room, and while being of a large and very high quality, they may take a while to download, they are ultimately worth the wait. Neil Gaiman was kind enough to twitter a link to his reference collection. It can be found here. [...]

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Fantastic. I’m envious. And I like that he has multiple copies of some books too, for handing out to friends.

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Comment by wickerkat — September 5, 2009 #

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Nice photos. Great camera. :)

Comment by hessedjoy — September 5, 2009 #

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I must point out — the book on the counter in the first photo is The Host by Stephenie Meyer. I didn’t expect to see that!

Comment by Mel — September 5, 2009 #

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It’s quite interesting to see what an established author’s book shelf contains. Gaiman and myself don’t seem to share many common titles. But I love, love, love the fact he has an Adipose plush toy!!! I want one!!

Comment by Alberto — September 6, 2009 #

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very interesting stuff:)

Comment by Ramona — September 7, 2009 #

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i have some of that books.
Now, i’m reading The Heroe whit a thousand faces. Nice library!

Comment by ulic — September 7, 2009 #

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neil gaiman? like the one who wrote Sandman?

cool. =)

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Comment by raninxs — September 7, 2009 #

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Good to see he has time to read.

Comment by librarianchat — September 7, 2009 #

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The Hugo there is for Best Short Story in 2003, awarded at Noreascon 4 in 2004 in Boston, MA. It’s for “A Study in Emerald”.

Comment by Joel — September 9, 2009 #

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Awesome, such a great writer.

Comment by snowcatsfilmreview — September 9, 2009 #

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[...] a blog since 2001, he is on Twitter, he possesses a beautiful, beautiful private library, and yet another library (you can zoom in to read every title on the shelves), he has given some long interviews and, to top [...]

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[...] Scott Lefton (who designed the base of the 2004 Hugo Award, one of which you may recently have seen here) was kind enough to take lots of new photos of us this weekend, so we’ll have plenty of good [...]

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