Neverwhere: A Novel

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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.

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Neverwhere is a fantastic story about where things go when the world forgets them, or they fall through the cracks (or gaps as another reviewer pointed out). Vividly told, with an unforgetable cast of characters, this twisting tale is some of the best contemporary fantasy there is. I recommend this book more highly than almost any other.

My brother likes Gaiman's books. He's younger so that might explain it, but there's not much plot to any I've read so far. It's more like a series of things happen, and then more stuff happens, and then the book ends.

Ever wonder what happens to the people who fall through the cracks. Well wonder no more. Neverwhere details all the danger, magic, and wonder that occurs deep under the streets of London.

Some interesting trivia about the history of London, and London's ambience and atmosphere powerfully drawn.There is a clever allusion to Neuromancer in novel's comparison of the blue of the sky to a "television tuned to a dead channel" (note that at the time Neuromancer was written, that signified a different color). Highlight of this deftly-constructed fantasy is Gaiman's elegant but powerful prose style. Template of ordinary man thrust into increasingly bizarre parallel world was also powerfully done in Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide series and Spencer's Resume with Monsters, but Gaiman still has much to add. Gaiman has strong logical underpinning, although there was no apparent reason that Croup & Vandemar did not consume de Carabas as they did to their previous victim. Only structural imperfection is that the ending feels tacked on and wanders on a bit long.Nevertheless, well worth reading for its plot, characters and writing.

Lord Rat-Speaker. Gaiman is published, I'm not etc etc.I was reading this in good sessions, 60 pages or so at a time, and I got to around 300 in and just couldn't be bothered to finish it. Come on. I lost count of the number of times I rolled my eyes. The characters names e.g. That's the sort of thing you come up with when you're 12 and a write a story.After all the hype I was incredibly disappointed. Maybe I'm not a big enough believer in pixie dust and unicorns.