Oh! I know this! I know this!!!

Definitely Neil Gaiman. He posted a clip on his blog of a reading he did somewhere... can't remember where... from Fragile Things.

I'm pretty sure he read "Instructions," "How to Talk to Girls at Parties," and "The Day the Saucers Came." Although, the second one he read might've been "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire." Or maybe it was all four. The thing is... well, his writing is so outrageously original (seriously, he gives Phillip K. Dick and H.P. Lovecraft a run for their money with both unexpected originality and also... creepy stuff), but hearing the pacing of it as he reads it is a treat beyond value.

But what really makes it when he reads is hearing his British accent. Well, and... he's very easy to look at. Wow. In fact, I think my first preference would be if he would come to my house and read the whole book just to me. Yeah, Neil... can we arrange that, please? I'll cook! And I have Stardust on DVD (oh, it's brilliant), we can watch it together and giggle inappropriately when Michelle Pfieffer's boobs sag! C'mon! It'll be fun.