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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Wayfinder123 | Jul 2, 2009 |   I was sooo lost in this book trying to imagine all of the scenery, but then I gave up and just paid attention to the plot. After that it was really fun. The characters are all likable and even though the world is made right there for you had had enough it to get the story. I feel sometimes authors that make new worlds in one book tend to lose you cause I know I always want to know more about the world. thumbsup | Jun 22, 2009 | 1  Neil Gaiman books always walk a fine line between cliched and inventive, but they are always enjoyable. In this particular story, a (somewhat uninteresting, undeveloped) protagonist accidentally discovers an entirely different London underground. His quest, of course, also ends up being a quest of self-discovery. The only thing I didn't like about this book, is the thing that bothers me about most Neil Gaiman books: the bad guys are completely, totally, unrepentantly bad. I think a little bit of nuance could go a long way. (  )apartmentcarpet | Jun 22, 2009 | Richard Mayhew is an ordinary young man working in London, with a fiancee, Jessica, a small flat and a life more-or-less figured out. Everything in his life is turned upside-down when he stumbles across an injured girl on the footpath who asks for his help. By involving himself in her life, her world, he becomes invisible in his own. He gets caught up in her mission to find out why her family was murdered and who wants her dead. I thought it was just ok. It is fast-paced and peopled with numerous eccentric characters. I grew to like Door, and even Richard. The book itself is a bit predictable at times, but not enough to spoil it. (  )dianestm | Jun 19, 2009 | witty, imaginative, and fresh writing from gaiman. (  )pru-lennon | Jun 13, 2009 | 0.019 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0060557818, Paperback)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(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:18 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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The characters are all enjoyably eccentric, except our hero (he is deliberately dull), and the book cracks along at a fair pace with plenty of clever name games.
However one can have a bit too much of a good thing and there were times when this book felt like it had been written by a group of "smart alec" undergrads for the other students to see how clever they were. (