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  • Neverwhere

  • A fun, dark, quirky adventure down the rabbit hole where you find out you're not in Kansas anymore - you're in London Below. Neil Gaiman is quickly turning into one of my favorite authors.

    

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• ― Readingrat said on Feb 27, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • I love Neil Gaiman.

  • I feel sometimes like Gaiman is the best-kept secret in American/English fiction. This is the second Gaiman book I read, and I was not at all disappointed. He's quickly becoming my new favorite author.

    Gaiman has a very English sensibility for comedy, and is not at all afraid to include fanta ... Continue

    I feel sometimes like Gaiman is the best-kept secret in American/English fiction. This is the second Gaiman book I read, and I was not at all disappointed. He's quickly becoming my new favorite author.

    Gaiman has a very English sensibility for comedy, and is not at all afraid to include fantastic, dark events and places in his novels. He tends to write strikingly identifiable characters, too; he has a gift for the slightly dopey protagonist, too clumsy for his or her own good, with whom we fall in love by the middle of the story, and hang on for dear life while his/her grand destiny unfolds. In spite of the fantastic events they contain, his books seem extremely real; you don't read them so much as experience them.

    You can tell that this book started its life as the script to a television miniseries, but don't let that steer you away. The type of writing it was early in life is probably responsible for giving the book a little more of a jerky feel than Gaiman's other stories (particularly the masterpiece "American Gods"), but all the elements of a great book are there. It's gripping, the characters all feel real and important (though I would love to see a few sequels set in this world, a la "Anansi Boys", to tell a bit more of their stories), the setting is well-illustrated enough to be enthralling, and the storyline has a lot in common with the much-cliched roller coaster, twisting and turning and delighting the reader throughout.

    This is a great book. If you've never read Neil Gaiman before, go borrow something of his from the library, or purchase this or any other Gaiman book at any cost; he's amazing. If you're already a fan, this book will not disappoint, except if you're looking for something mirroring the grandiosity of "American Gods"; this book's not quite that large. But it's large enough, and great in its own right. Go get it!

    

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  • It was hard to enjoy the book at first, since I've been reading only one author for the last, like, 10 books. But once I grew use to the style, I couldn't get enough of it. Richard is one of the coolest characters I've every read, and yet hes so normal. Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar were just fun to re ... Continue

    It was hard to enjoy the book at first, since I've been reading only one author for the last, like, 10 books. But once I grew use to the style, I couldn't get enough of it. Richard is one of the coolest characters I've every read, and yet hes so normal. Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar were just fun to read as well. The sarcasm in this book caught me off guard, and made it that much more enjoyable!

    

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• ― Aselion said on Nov 29, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart - and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed - a dark subculture flourishing in abandoned subway s ... Continue

    Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart - and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed - a dark subculture flourishing in abandoned subway stations and sewer tunnels below the city - a world far stranger and more dangerous than the only one he has ever known...

    

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• ― meganzing said on Sep 29, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • This book just didn't make much of an impression on me. It's just... something else to read. I keep hearing great things about this author then never being impressed myself.

    

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• ― Deanna Kyre said on May 10, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • One of my all time favorites

  • I love this book and Neil Gaiman's narrative voice. He's witting and funny and yet he can be so dark. I love the character development with Richard.

    

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• ― emybites* said on May 10, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinarylife, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.

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