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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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  • 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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  • There are not nearly enough people that know about this book. The BBC did their usual destruction of something good when they made their miniseries of this groundbreaking novel. Unfortunately it did more harm than good, I am sad to say.

    This book is an incredible Urban Fantasy for any reader ... Continue

    There are not nearly enough people that know about this book. The BBC did their usual destruction of something good when they made their miniseries of this groundbreaking novel. Unfortunately it did more harm than good, I am sad to say.

    This book is an incredible Urban Fantasy for any reader that has any kind of imagination.

    

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• ― Robert said on May 29, 2009 about the Paperback edition| 1 feedback| 1 feedback

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  • If there was higher than LOVE it! This book would receive it.

    

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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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  • 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 | Add your feedback

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 flourish 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...Richard Mayhew is a young businessman with a good heart and a dull job. When he stops one day to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk, his life is forever altered, for he finds himself propelled into an alternate reality that exists in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations below the city. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere.

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