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Loved every page! I lived in London for 6 years and it was a wonderful throwback that reimagined the everyday city struggles (mind the Gap!) and showed them in a new magical way. Perfect book to forget yourself in. I really hope London Below #2 is coming out soon. (  ) madar1a | Jun 5, 2021 |  Rereading it. ( ) KittyCunningham | Apr 26, 2021 | Ah, now THIS is what a radioplay should be! Fantastic characters, perfectly embodied by actors who know how to not over- or under-do it; just enough soundeffects to make the story more than just voices; and of course a wonderfully drafted story, condensed from the original, but not so much as to lose the overarching tone of the original. After having heard the characters in this format, I kind of wish that they woud do another film/tv version of the Neverwhere story, since I think that these voice actors are so well-suited to the characters. Someday, maybe, since the original tv series never really made itself well-known, and if the upcoming Gaiman-based screen adaptations do well enough, I can see a reboot happening. If not I'll at least be satisfied with what we have! (  ) JaimieRiella | Feb 25, 2021 | This was an interesting fantasy. It's about a world called London Below with all sorts of people and creatures that the people in actual London can't see. A common Londoner, average guy, ends up in the middle of war/quest type scenario. This other world is pretty cool. It's made up of rats and lesser beautiful creatures than are often in fantasy stories; although, there is an angel, a slumming angel. Also it isn't a save-the-world romance like a lot of the fantasies I've read. I enjoyed it. I checked it out because of the author. I didn't know there was a show of it too. ( ) ToniFGMAMTC | Feb 17, 2021 | 4.5 stars (still not rounded up though). At first I felt the book to be very depressing but as I kept on reading it it started feeling oddly comforting. What I really liked was that all the characters are very distinct and they feel complete. I liked being led through London below and the whole adventure but (yes there is a but) the ending felt insincere. London below is just better, there is no need to explain that :) ( ) hafsteinn | Feb 2, 2021 |
 Gaiman blends history and legend to fashion a traditional tale of good versus evil, replete with tarnished nobility, violence, wizardry, heroism, betrayal, monsters and even a fallen angel. The result is uneven. His conception of London Below is intriguing, but his characters are too obviously symbolic (Door, for example, possesses the ability to open anything). Also, the plot seems a patchwork quilt of stock fantasy images. Adapted from Gaiman's screenplay for a BBC series, this tale would work better with fewer words and more pictures.  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. Is contained inHas the adaptationIs expanded inInspiredHas as a supplement
Richard Mayhew's life is forever changed after he rescues a young girl named Door and finds himself living in a city of monsters, saints, murderers, and angels, and he must help Door on her mission to save this strange underworld kingdom from destruction. No library descriptions found. 
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