Neverwhere: A Novel
by Neil Gaiman
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Author: Neil GaimanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-09-01
ISBN: 0060557818
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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- ISBN13: 9780060557812
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Book Reviews of Neverwhere: A Novel
Book Review: Flat.
Summary: 2 Stars
I had such high hopes for Neil. Sandman is great, I love his girlfriends music, and my favourite modern author holds him in such high esteem. And then.... That's it. Neverwhere is just a deflated random mess. It is at best a diverting read, but at this point the premise has been done so many times, and better, that the book is not recommendable. It's..Tales of the Nightside, but not that good. Actually if he had kept it to a Nightside length he might have been okay. The characters are cutouts, the premise shaky, dialogue cliche', and descriptions vague and unimaginative. If he wants to do a sequel, which was left wide open, I might give him a try after so long to dial in his long story craft, but really, this book is bad, I'm only going to try one more novel before giving up on Neil as a long story author..He is of course still brilliant as a screen (Coraline) and comic (Sandman) writer.
Summary of Neverwhere: A Novel
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.
Neverwhere's protagonist, Richard Mayhew, learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished. He ceases to exist in the ordinary world of London Above, and joins a quest through the dark and dangerous London Below, a shadow city of lost and forgotten people, places, and times. His companions are Door, who is trying to find out who hired the assassins who murdered her family and why; the Marquis of Carabas, a trickster who trades services for very big favors; and Hunter, a mysterious lady who guards bodies and hunts only the biggest game. London Below is a wonderfully realized shadow world, and the story plunges through it like an express passing local stations, with plenty of action and a satisfying conclusion. The story is reminiscent of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but Neil Gaiman's humor is much darker and his images sometimes truly horrific. Puns and allusions to everything from Paradise Lost to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz abound, but you can enjoy the book without getting all of them. Gaiman is definitely not just for graphic-novel fans anymore. --Nona Vero
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