Off to DC, we took metro going to Neil Gaiman event last weekend. We stopped by Borders to looking for his new book Fragile Things, unfortunately we found nothing. Hubby bought Anansi Boys in case we couldn't get one in a book store nearby the event. Yeah just getting his sign on his books was the only thing we needed from him that evening, though I never like doing such thing for some reasons. Are we his big fans? The answer is no! But we do read his books. One of them I've ever read is Coraline. The book is okay and easily understood.

Well, our purpose why we'd like to get his sign on his new book because we are going to give this signed book as a Christmas present for Tim. He is my hubby's best buddy since childhood. He is a real big fan of this author and collects many stuff of NG such as comics, books, etc.

Once we got there, I was surprised by the style most audiences were wearing. They looked hippie and unfashionable, sort of like Tim I would say. Another surprise was the event was held in Wesley United Methodist Church, while the writer himself (and most of his fans, I guess) seems like having no religion as we have observed so far from his writings and his answer to one question about religion. After minutes I was sitting on a little empty space of the carpeted floor (the room was packed and there was no empty seat) , I found it was such a boring event. Can you believe it took almost 2 hours just listening to what he read? He shouldn't have done this way, reading the whole chapter one. To me, it's just wasting time since the audiences who most got his new book on the spot can read that part at home, anyway. A good thing is the line was not that too long when we were getting his sign. On our way back home, Hubby said he feels not welcomed in such community ..oh well what can I say? Anyhow, I just enjoyed myself looking at some eccentric crowd and the author as well, even though he is not as cool as I thought like his picture I saw in one of his books.