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Summary: Awesome...loved it!
Review: Captivating and realistic...almost had me believing that there really is a London Below...
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Summary: A dark Contemporary Alice and Wonderland! Thrilling!
Review: Imaginative and highly visual this book is so inspiring!I am 11 years old and this is my favorite book! I look after Door, Richard, Marquis de Carabass and Hunter! Door is a young woman who is on a quest to find who killed her family, Richard Mayhew is a kind good-hearted man who saved Doors life, the Marquis is a trickster who saves Richards life and dies...but comes back to life, and Hunter is the famous woman who is Doors body guard who works for the angel Islington (but noone knows) who is supposed to be good but is the boss of Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar who are VERY bad men (killed Doors family)! Together these characters work together and when time comes for Richard to go back to London Above and he does he decides that hes now not that type of person and goes back to London Below with the Marquis and then joins Door and the Marquis!
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Summary: Groovy, Dark, and Magical
Review: This is one ripping yarn that is sure to turn pages. Wonderful imagary, plot and charecter development. If you like Gaiman, this book will not dissapoint you. If you like life this book will make you like it more. If you like cheese, buy a Danielle Steel romance! Groove on night swimmers!
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Summary: starts good, but then...
Review: I've always enjoyed the Sandman comics, and that prevented me from reading this novel when it was first released; just because Gaiman can write a superb comic, does that mean he can write a good novel? After reading it, my answer is no. It's very unfortunate, however, because his protagonist, Richard Mayhew, is very well characterized, and quite funny at times. I had a hard time understanding just what the point of this novel was. My guess: it's a version of those D&D quest-novels I overdosed on back in the early 80s. If you suffer from fantasy role-playing burnout such as I do (since junior high), avoid this book. Also, I figured Gaiman could be a bit more creative and avoid the "lost subterranean world" fall-back setting.
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Summary: graphic novels
Review: I became interested in his work reading all the comics.. (graphic novels, etc), but finding neverwhere was amazing. his discriptions of london below, quirky, made me feel like i was there without boring me half to death (which alot of storytellers do.. go around describing every single scene). Great for people who've never read Gaiman this is quite a light introduction.
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Summary: A dark fantasy but light to read
Review: I've never read Sandman and I've never been to London, so maybe I'm not the right person to review this book. Be that as it may, I did enjoy Neverwhere. The setting was truly original, and even if the story followed many clichés of epic fantasy adventures, somewhere in the background I could sense a kind of parodic smile... maybe this book shouldn't be taken very seriously. On the other hand, Gaiman's emotional escapism is something you can't label a joke. I do love stories that say we still have a chance to run away from the everyday world. There are books that are better written and authors who have more ideas. But the important thing is that Neverwhere _feels_ better than most of those. Hail Gaiman for that.
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Summary: Highly imaginative "Alice in Wonderland" novel!!!!
Review: I love this book!! Thought the characters were excellent (especially the two bad guys) and I thought Gaiman was extremely original in using the London underground as a backdrop for this amazing story. It seems like the perfect setup for a sequel-Hunter?? Door's sister?? Croup and Vandemar?? I would love to learn more about Lord Portico as well as what happens on our crew's next adventure...I anxiously await more fantastic tales from Neil Gaiman!!!!
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Summary: Neverwhere is everywhere!
Review: All was lost for me in the world of ninties literature. Everywhere I looked, all I found were wanna-be-intilligent novels by John Grisham and Oprha Winfrey. And then, on a bright and sunny day, a friend lent me a copy of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, and a smile crept to my face. "I read it in two days", he said. "It was the most wonderful thing I've read in years." Though I was relunctant and detached from all prose at that point, I did remember Neil Gaiman's Sandman series which inspired me greatly in the past. So, I took it home. As soon as I opened the cover, I couldn't put it down. Neverwhere created a world of endless imagination and of mythological intellect. I was so sucked into that thing, that I'm reading it again, buying my own copy, and am even comparing it to Alice in Wonderland for a college term paper. Thank you, Neil Gaiman, for excreting true talent into the mainstream!
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Summary: What a great adventure !
Review: When i started this book, i was expecting something strange..Boy did i sure guess that right, this book is full of great surprises, and all goes along at a perfect pase. Not once did this book lag, our even bore me, the whole thing intriged me even more, like learing about a whole new type of humans ! This author can make u feel sad in one short sentace, then bring u up in the next, he plays with your imagination and makes u think of new things as well as new possibilties. I give it a 10 out of 10 if i could. but sadly it will have to settle for a 5. For all those people who really do like a neat adventure..Read this book !!!How many books are like Neverwhere : Zero. How many authors make u not want the book to end: Few. How many characters in your book do u really fell attached too: In this book... All. Why should u all read this perfect book: Couse if u dont u and all the other sad people who are missing out on something truly great, will be doomed forever by not reading this =). Here is a rating: 1-10 Exciting: 8 Fun: 9 1/2 Imaginative: 11 Scary: 4 1/2 Anger when the book ends couse u want to read more: 15 1/2 Is it worth the read: 20 1/2 Are u going to recomend it to people after u are done: Most likely. Will they enjoy it: Who whouldent.
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Summary: Alice & Wonderland gone horribly wrong...
Review: Simply put, Gaiman is a masterful storyteller, and one of the few still operating in the folklorist tradition. Now, I feel sure that none of us can point to a story that resembles this one so much, but certainly Gaiman has bent a popular story, as he does so well, to his own will. Richard Mayhew, the main character, is a man who leads a dull and uninvolving life. That is, until he finds a strange, injured girl, and interrupts his affairs to help her. With that, a tiny mote appears in his universe, and it sucks him in (Just as a certain prim and proper girl once followed a white rabbit). He finds himself caught in the mysterious world of London Below that had always been there, but that he had been ignoring all of his life. And in order to escape this realm of darkness, he must find a key- one that will restore him to his former life, and bring him to himself.
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