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Summary: Fasten your seat belt and keep your hands inside the windows
Review: This book will become an "underground" best seller (pun intended)! The author ties in history, myth and literature to create a timeless story. A fast paced and exciting roller-coaster ride. No, make that a fast paced and exciting subway ride! You'll get my meaning when you read the book.No, I'm not going to tell you the plot. That would just spoil the fun. And shame on those reviewers who do tell you the whole story instead of just wetting your appetite. So, here's your hors d'oeuvre... Could there possibly be a connection between Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Hobbit and Wind in the Willows? Could they all be stories that were told, not by the authors to their children, but rather by the children to their parents? Could they all be about the same place, a fantastic world that only children could enter and return to tell stories about? When a struggling journalist is hired to do a biography of A. E. Jones, the author of the classic children's series "Jeremy in Neverwas", her suspicions are aroused. Especially when she meets the author's son, now a disturbed, middle-aged man, who has become estranged from his mother for stealing his childhood. As she continues her research into truth behind Neverwas she never expects that her own daughter will also be drawn into this fantastic world. A world far more dangerous than any children's book.
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Summary: Clever Plot; Competent Writing
Review: This is a solid but unexceptionable fantasy novel. Like the work of Tim Powers and others, it assumes a mythic substructure to our mundane world. In this case, the emphasis is on the Egyptian Osiris myth, though other mythic archetypes are involved in the story. The plot, involving the mythical elements, subway construction, and different aspects of children's literature, is ingenious. Other aspects of the book, such as character development and prose in general, do not match the promise of the plot. Worth reading but disappointing in the sense that the potential of the story is never really fulfilled.
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Summary: Fascinating combo of conspiracy theory & children's books
Review: Who would have figured that all the subway systems of the world were part of an enormous conspiracy--and that the secret to the conspiracy could be found in children's children's literature. I enjoyed this book enormously! Original, well-written, and entertaining.
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