Also the folloeing pages description of Richard's hangover is hilariously spot on! listening to Neil Gaiman read this line will eternally fill me with glee. 217: the kind of fireworks that end a day at Walt Disney World, or that give the fire marshals headaches at Pink Floyd concerts. We on the other hand are auditioning bodyguards.' You, are outof your depth, in deep shit, and, I would imagine, a few hours away from an untimely and undoubtedly messy end. this description of Varney cracks me up, given a perfect image of how he would look if sitting net to me. P.104:Varney looked like a bull might look =,if the bull were to be shaved, dehorned, covered in tattoos, and had suffered from complete dental breakdown. 54:Now we have a damsel to undistress, and time is of the essnce. The moment he realized that he wanted to go back to the London below was quiet a relief. I felt his passivness hitting a little close to home and wanted a greater victory for him other than perceived mental illness when he returned to his London. I like the thought of another world existing just underneath the one you live in.Īnd I liked Richard the main character, well like but dislike as well. Ends up back in London above and realizes he liked it well enough in London below. Review: Richard seems to have ended up in London below. If Richard is ever to return to his former life and home, he must join Lady Door’s quest to save her world-and may well die trying. Here in Neverwhere, Door is a powerful noblewoman who has vowed to find the evil agent of her family’s slaughter and thwart the destruction of this strange underworld kingdom.

Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwhere-a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. He stops to help her-an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. It is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he discovers a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman’s darkly hypnotic first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of a major talent and became a touchstone of urban fantasy. The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his “preferred text”-and including his special Neverwhere tale, “How the Marquis Got His Coat Back”.

“Neil Gaiman is undoubtedly one of the modern masters of fantasy writing.For those who have not read Neverwhere, the new edition is the one to read, and is a fitting introduction to Gaiman’s adult fiction.American readers can experience this spellbinding, magical world the way that Neil Gaiman wanted us to all along.” - Huffington Post

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