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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is a brilliant novel. The second paragraph is a fourteen line sentence -- that works. Neil Gaiman is a master of his craft and it shows in this book.All the characters are three dimensional with real motivations and flavour. The setting and story come to life while you read and whether you experience it as pure fiction or read it as clever satire, you're going to get something out of it. (  ) RhondaParrish | Mar 15, 2010 |  I should have read this years ago; I suppose the dreadful BBC version put me off. Reads like a comic book without the pictures. That’s a good thing. Simply wonderful. (  ) phoebesmum | Mar 13, 2010 | This book is a very quick read. It was based on a British mini series that Neil Gaiman wrote. The book went into more detail with character backstories, and some of the settings were a little different, perhaps because he did not need to be constrained with what the tv budget would allow. The plot is like The Wizard of Oz - Richard finds himself in a fantastic parallel world but wants to go home. In order to go home, he must find the Angel Islington who sends him on a quest. Along the way he meets a cast of interesting characters, faces danger, and learns something about himself. (  )1  stacyinthecity | Feb 28, 2010 | This is the story of Richard Mayhew, set in our reality's London (London Above) and also London Below, the magical place known only to those who are part of it. By helping a woman named Door, he is unknowingly transferred to London Below, and the story is about Richard trying to help Door but also make it back to his old life in London Above. This is a great story, a quick and easy read that gives you a great taste of urban fantasy. There's action, adventure, and some great original characters. Gaiman also throws in some twists for good measure. (  ) starmetal | Feb 26, 2010 | A dreamy novel exploring the idea of a secret dimension to London, England, peopled by steampunk princesses who can open doors where no doors exist, merciful conversing sewer rats, all the people regular Londoners wish to forget, and angels. I did not enjoy this book as much as I thought I would, given my general appreciation for Gaiman. While his writing is lovely as always, and I enjoy the little pieces of this book, I found it hard to invest myself in the plotline. As stated, the book has a neat dreamy quality to the language but the extension of this aspect to the story reminds me of a statement Gaiman himself has made elsewhere - dream logic is not story logic. This book has dream logic to me. ( )1 Larkken | Feb 25, 2010 | 
 The novel is consistently witty, suspenseful, and hair-raisingly imaginative in its contemporary transpositions of familiar folk and mythic materials (one can read Neverwhere as a postmodernist punk Faerie Queene). Readers who've enjoyed the fantasy work of Tim Powers and William Browning Spencer won't want to miss this one. And, yes, Virginia, there really are alligators in those sewers--and Gaiman makes you believe it. The millions who know The Sandman, the spectacularly successful graphic novel series Gaiman writes, will have a jump start over other fantasy fans at conjuring the ambience of his London Below, but by no means should those others fail to make the setting's acquaintance. It is an Oz overrun by maniacs and monsters, and it becomes a Shangri-La for Richard. Excellent escapist fare. Gaiman's gift for mixing the absurd with the frightful give this novel the feeling of a bedtime story with adult sophistication. Readers will find themselves as unable to escape this tale as the characters themselves.
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