i think he deserves his status, though
it's his imagination and talent for story-telling that win him the praise, rather than the excellence of his prose.
e.g. www.neilgaiman.com/mediafiles/exclusive/shortstories/emerald.pdf
certainly doesn't hurt a writer's rep in my mind to co-write one of my favourite novels with one of my favourite authors, and marry one of my favourite singers to boot!
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well, it's just my opinion. never thought he was bad, his books are solid, just perhaps not quite worth the status he seems to enjoy, giving Masterclasses about authorship and whatnot
and I haven't read all of his oeuvre. Though the Pratchett collaboration just reminds me how terry wrote a great book on these forgotten gods fighting for belief to keep their existence relevant, and just a few years later Gaiman wrote american gods with the same premise
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