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| Original Title: | Neverwhere |
| ISBN: | 0060557818 (ISBN13: 9780060557812) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | London Below, The World of Neverwhere #1 |
| Characters: | Richard Mayhew, Door, Marquis de Carabas, Hunter, Mr. Croup, Mr. Vandemar, Islington, Jessica Bartram, Old Bailey |
| Setting: | London, England England United Kingdom |
| Literary Awards: | Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (1998), Prix Julia Verlanger (1999) |
Neil Gaiman
Paperback | Pages: 370 pages Rating: 4.17 | 404630 Users | 21461 Reviews
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| Title | : | Neverwhere (London Below, The World of Neverwhere #1) |
| Author | : | Neil Gaiman |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 370 pages |
| Published | : | September 2nd 2003 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published September 16th 1996) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Romance. Young Adult. Contemporary. Love. Fiction. Adult |
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Under the streets of London there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks. Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: Neverwhere.Rating Based On Books Neverwhere (London Below, The World of Neverwhere #1)
Ratings: 4.17 From 404630 Users | 21461 ReviewsWrite Up Based On Books Neverwhere (London Below, The World of Neverwhere #1)
Beware of Doors. Neverwhere reminded me of Alice in Wonderland with a darker setting. The lead character is an adult confronting a world that he's never known before. The concept of Neverwhere is easily understandable even though the narrative is multi-layered and complicated. Why not ? This is exactly an urban fantasy novel without young adult materials, but Gaiman managed to throw some little things that we're so accustomed to, such as London, the lousy villains, the wise hero and MAGIC.I won this in a Goodreads/Firstreads Giveaway! Yay! Look at these pictures! Sorry for the darkness. We were in the sunlight but it canceled us out. Anyhoo! I am in love with the looks of this little book! It doesn't have a dust jacket! It's one of my fav hardbacks! I love them without the dust jackets. I have added a picture of the front and back. I have also added a picture of just one of the many illustrations through-out the book and the inside book flap that isn't really a flap but they made
The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City."Old Bailey nodded, sagely: "What, the big white buggers? They're down there. I had a friend lost a head to one of them." A moment of silence. "It was OK," gurned Old Bailey with a grin that was most terrible to behold. "He had another. This book feels like pure magic. And wow, looks like I'm getting the Gaiman hype. Neverwhere follows the story of Richard Mayhew, a pile of
Final review: After a multilevel process of reading, commenting and then rereading (see my various updates below), here is the final summation of all my thoughts and feelings about Neverwhere: 4 stars! And read the illustrated version! Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:Neverwhere is a novel that improved dramatically for me on reread, which actually was a surprise to me. I originally read it about six years ago when, in an odd twist worthy of London Below, it mysteriously appeared one
Richard Mayhew had a perfectly ordinary life, thank you very much.He had a job that he didn't quite hate, a fairly decent apartment and a lovely fiancee (despite what his friends thought). One night, he and his fiance stumble upon a broken, bleeding girl. The strangest thing? His fiance couldn't quite see the girl - or more like once she noticed the bleeding girl, his fiance would just as quickly un-notice her.Shrugging that off, Richard takes the girl back to his apartment (at her insistence)
I didn't enjoy this book as much as I should have. I kept distracting myself with the thought, "Why the hell haven't I read more of Neil Gaiman's books?" Then I would have to tell myself to shut up, because I'm reading one right now, and I can return to berating myself later.Neil Gaiman really understands fantasy. He understands that it isn't elves dancing in a forest and drunk dwarves mining for gold with improbably well maintained beards. No, fantasy is a reflection of reality, but fantastic.
I read Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" recently, and loved it. So when I saw "Neverwhere" on the cheap shelf at the local bookstore I picked it up. For a book that is only 370 pages I thought it would never end. It was Gaiman's first solo novel, so I will cut him some slack, but this text is just simply not that satisfying. The high praise for it mystifies me."Neverwhere" is an imaginative novel, with some interesting character ideas and plot devices. But it is not a well written novel. It verges
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