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The History Connection - Neverwhere
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List Price: $7.99
Our Price: $1.23
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Manufacturer: Avon
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780380789016
ISBN: 0380789019
Label: Avon
Manufacturer: Avon
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 1998-11-01
Publisher: Avon
Release Date: 1998-11-01
Studio: Avon
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Summary: Mythic magic
Comment: This was the first Neil Gaiman novel I ever read. I picked it up in London as we were boarding the plane to fly back to Canada. I know the London Underground very well, having lived in the city off and on since 1970. What I immediately loved was the way he plays back and forth with metaphor and description. I mean, Earls Court as a real court inhabiting one of the coaches - brilliant!
This guy really knows how to bring myth to life, and by myth I don't mean something that has no contact with reality, I mean the something that underlies reality, just as the London Underground exists beneath the city.
If a genie popped out of a bottle to grant me just one wish it would be "Please teach me to write like Neil Gaiman."
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Summary: If you liked Alice...
Comment: As a big fan of the Alice in Wonderland story and a big fan of London, I was excited to read this book. And I was definetly not disappointed! The story brings forth a new dimension to everyday London living with wonderful characters and a surprising story line. I always did wonder why people needed to mind the Gap...
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Summary: Fantastic narrative
Comment: This book got me completely into Neil Gaiman. I read all of his other books after this one. If you are already a Gaiman fan you'll like it even more.
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Summary: The perfect book...
Comment: I work in a used bookstore and read a lot of books of all genres. Gaiman is tough to categorize. I have read American Gods and Anansi Boys and toroughly enjoyed them, but Neverwhere blew me away.
It you enjoy reading, you will lose yourself in this book. It has everything you want in a book. Most importantly, Gaiman knows how to end a book. It is depressing lately to invest your time in a book that disappoints in the end. This doesn't. May be one of the best endings of a book ever.
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Summary: Don't buy audio version
Comment: The primary aim of an audio recording is to be clear and understandable and Neil Gaiman's recording of Neverwhere is neither. The author has the annoying habit of dropping his voice on the last few words of each sentence, making them unintelligible. The only option is to turn up the volume, thus risking hearing damage as the first part of each sentence is now very loud. On certain sections, he adds special effects (echos, static) which make those sections completely unintelligible. This may be a great book, but I will never know as I gave up in frustration after about 1 hour.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart -- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed -- a dark subculture flourish in abandoned subway stations and sewer tunnels below the city -- a world far stranger and more dangerous than the only one he has ever known...Richard Mayhew is a young businessman with a good heart and a dull job. When he stops one day to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk, his life is forever altered, for he finds himself propelled into an alternate reality that exists in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations below the city. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere.
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