Neverwhere
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Written by Neil Gaiman.
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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 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.User Reviews (3) Login or create an account to write a review.
momo_panda thinks this book is Good.
I nearly finished this wonderful book in one go.
If you don't like macabre humor this book is probably nothing for you.
I personaly would have liked to be Under-london more romantic goth like not as shaggy and rundwon as desrcibed. But I guess when you live in the sewer of london you have to make the best out of it.
Za thinks this book is Excellent.
This is a fabulous work -- imaginative, gripping, funny, frightening, and entirely original. Gaiman's mastery of fantasy shines through as he tells the stories of a motley crew of characters -- the brave, vague marquis de Carabas; the young door-opener, Door, out to avenge her murdered family; Hunter, the greatest bodyguard in the sewers of London Below; and a lost, bewildered stranger from London Above, Richard Mayhew, who experiences a life he couldn't have imagined in his wildest dreams. Gaiman makes London Below, with all its filth and danger and incomprehensibility, a world worth visiting.
Gabriel thinks this book is Worth Reading.
Although I enjoyed this book, as Gaiman has a very engaging prose style which is at once humorous and provacative, I didn't think that it was as impressive as some of his other work. A fun Alice in Wonderland nod, and the engagement with myth was quiet well done (Gaiman excels at this, in particular). If I recall there was also a BBC fim or TV production done of this.