Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman.

388 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 2001 by HarperTorch.

ISBN:
978-0-380-78901-6
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OCLC Number:
40155413

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4 stars (5 reviews)

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, …

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3 stars

Nuorehko sijoitusanalyytikko (vai mikä olikaan) törmää Lontoon kadulla mystiseen loukkaantuneeseen nuoreen naiseen, ja siitä lähtee seikkailu Ala-Lontoossa, jota kansoittavat raoista alas pudonneet tyypit ja jossa henki on jatkuvasti herkässä. Pääpahiksen jäljittäminen johdattaa sankarimme moneen groteskiin paikkaan ja tilanteeseen. Sen rinnalla tavanomaisen arkinen Lontoo pankkiireineen ja taidekuraattoreineen tietenkin kalpenee.

Harry Potter, but mature

4 stars

This was my first Neil Gaiman book. I can understand why people love his books.

This read a lot like Harry Potter in terms of the fantasy right under people's nose, and the fact that this happened in London (what is it with London and trains, eh?) gave further familiar vibe.

The book has a good flow. It's well written, with skills and thoughts. Gaiman created a whole world in 350 pages, and it feels like there's much more in the brains this came out of. I like how this books is kind of happy ending, yet, still not, yet... is... if you read it, you'll get it.

I don't usually ready fantasy like this, but I'm glad I picked this up. It was a fun read, an entertaining one, and invitation to provoke the mind and imagination.

Subjects

  • Fantasy fiction.