Neverwhere: Author's Preferred Text
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.26 (618 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062459082 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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National BestsellerSelected as one of NPR’S Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All TimeThe #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” Published in 1997, Neverwhere heralded the arrival of a major talent and became a touchstone of urban fantasy. Originally from England, he now lives in America.. Now Gaiman’s preferred edition of his classic novel reconciles these works and reinstates a number of scenes cut from the original published books.Richard Mayhew is a young London businessman with a good heart whose life is changed forever when he stops to help a bleeding girl—an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. and the U.K. 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. 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. Over the
He ceases to exist in the ordinary world of London Above, and joins a quest through the dark and dangerous London Below, a shadow city of lost and forgotten people, places, and times. Gaiman is definitely not just for graphic-novel fans anymore. Puns and allusions to everything from Paradise Lost to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz abound, but you can enjoy the book without getting all of them. London Below is a wonderfully realized shadow world, and the story plunges through it like an express passing local stations, with plenty of action and a satisfying conclusion. --Nona Vero. Neverwhere's protagonist, Richard Mayhew, learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished. The story is reminiscent of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but Neil Gaiman's humor is much darker and his images sometime
Xyon McKell said "I'd watch out for doors if I were you.". Richard Mayhew is an everyday nobody with a quiet life, a boring job, and an impending marriage to someone above his station. But an unusual encounter with a young girl who he finds bleeding on the street is about to expose him to the world beyond the cracks in society too many in London have been unfortunate enough to fall through.Neil Gaiman has become the prototypical “rock star” novelist, expanding upon his initial fame from his award winning run on Vertigo Comics’ The Sandman. His tales generally blend elements of horror and fantasy in vastly captivating ways. I’ve read a fair number of Gaiman’s boo. Tedious and forced. Didn't grab me at all. G. A. Kathryns Slow beginning, somewhat tedious, supernatural elements imaginative but forced. Mr. Gaiman is rather flippant toward his readers, and therefore I find that I am rather flippant toward Mr. Gaiman. I returned the book for a refund.I suspect one really need to *want* to like Mr. Gaiman's work in order to like it. Just my opinion.. Gaiman’s brilliant mind moves the reader effortlessly through the twilight world Michael G. Romkey Does “Neverwhere” really need a 1,753rd review on Amazon? Probably not, but that is not going to stop me from writing one.Neil Gaiman is a creative virtuoso. In “Neverwhere,” his fertile imagination conjures a make-believe shadow London existing beneath and between the margins of the real city. Gaiman’s brilliant mind moves the reader effortlessly through the twilight world of this contemporary fairy tale replete with demons, angels, people who speak rat, and energy-sucking vampires.Alas, the characters in “Neverwhere” tend to be archetypes rather than realistic, three-dimensional personaliti