Stardust is just not my kind of book. I rarely, if ever, read fantasy books and Stardust confirms why that is so. If it wasn't a book club book I"m not sure I would have finished it. It was strange and weird and confusing. It was like Gaiman took a whole bunch of things, threw them in a pot and stirred it up without any thought of whether or not they would go together. Things jumped around and I was confused more than half the time. I started listening to the audio but then switched to the print version thinking that that might cut down on the confusion, but it didn't so I went back to audio to finish it. 
 UPDATE: 
 Watched the movie during book club and I finally understand what's really going on. Movie was actually pretty good (and that's saying a lot from me!) and made sense. I don't often watch the movie before reading the book but I feel like you have to watch the movie in order to get the book, which makes me think even less of the book because of that fact. 
 Also the ending in the movie is different and a million times better.