Laci asked Neil Gaiman:

I'm currently reading View from the Cheap Seats and I've never actively created a to-read list while reading another book. View from the Cheap Seats would also have a soundtrack and I've added some of those musicians to my music playlist. How in the world do you make long-ago speeches and introductions so compelling?

Neil Gaiman I think the essays in THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS are compelling, to whatever extent they are, because I'm telling people about things I love and loved, and things I care and cared about, and I'm doing my very best to tell those people why I cared and why, perhaps, they should too. It's actually harder to write a good review of something than a bad one, harder to explain why something resonates than it is simply to dismiss it in funny, cutting prose. But Cheap Seats for me was about going and trying to give people a reading list, a listening list, a watching list -- and even if they didn't like what I'd got them reading, they might be able to understand why I'd sent them there.

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