Neverwhere: A Novel
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- ISBN13: 9780060557812
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Richard Mayhew is a young man with a excellent heart and an ordinarylife, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His tiny act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.
Amazon.com Review
Neverwhere’s protagonist, Richard Mayhew, learns the hard way that no excellent deed goes unpunished. He ceases to exist in the ordinary world of London Above, and joins a quest through the dark and treacherous London Not more than, a shadow city of lost and forgotten people, places, and times. His companions are Door, who is trying to find out who hired the assassins who murdered her family tree and why; the Marquis of Carabas, a trickster who trades services for very huge favors; and Hunter, a mysterious lady who guards bodies and hunts only the largest game. London Not more than is a wonderfully realized shadow world, and the tale plunges through it like an prompt passing local stations, with plenty of action and a satisfying conclusion. The tale is reminiscent of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but Neil Gaiman’s humor is much darker and his images sometimes truly horrific. Puns and allusions to everything from Paradise Lost to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz abound, but you can delight in the book lacking getting all of them. Gaiman is certainly not just for graphic-novel fans anymore. –Nona Vero
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“The night before he went to London, Richard Mayhew was not enjoying himself.”
The man screws it up on the first sentence. The first sentence. Imagine what the rest of the book is like. A small friendly warning.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Besides of all the annoying parts, and there are plenty, this book goes nowhere and gives you nothing.
It is just a very, very light read, and it seems to be written lacking any passion and respect neither for the book itself nor for the reader.
I cannot see a dramaturgy at all, and dramaturgy is the least bit I should expect from a book.
The whole tale is like a lot of weak thoughts just poorly linked together. It gives me the impression that the leader is not able to make a tale with inner logic, suspense and dramatic peaks.
For example the fight between Hunter and the beast:
It was announced for chapters and then it was over in just a few seconds.
Another example is “Richard’s Suffering”:
What could have been a key sequence in the book, what should have been Richards catharsis, was just a mediocre nightmare from which Gaiman steals himself away lacking any solution.
Then there is the moment we all learn who is the villain. It couldn’t have been more crude, could it?
And is there really a right conflict in Richard regarding his real life and his girlfriend? For me it rather looks like he just wants to slip into this underworld for excellent out of reasons a kid in real life would slip into the world of video games.
The one star is for the sometimes amusing murderer duo.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I loved Excellent Omens so I gave this book a try. That got me to read Terry Pratchett – I figured HE must be the excellent one. I establish this book dull and trite and just unadorned stupid.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Neil Gaiman is one of my favorite authors. Sorry to say, he has a small problem; he’s got a successful career in multiple mediums, winning awards and selling millions of copies of his novels, comics, and now films. This has led to the translation of EVERY work of his having a plotted adaptation into additional mediums. Neverwhere was a nice small low-budget BBC miniseries, and it worked well as that. It was basically Sandman-lite, but it had its charm. Now, since Gaiman has proved himself as a competent leader of comics, novels, and scripts, it also HAS to be a book and a comic series. Similarly, Stardust was a nice novel, and it got a fantastic movie. Now, there is a comic adaptation on the way, even though it was already an illustrated novel. WHY?
Encouraging his behavior by buying it in multiple forms is going to kill Gaiman artistically: rather than coming up with new material, we will be flooded with translations of the same ancient work over and over again. Case-in-point: his failed speech for a children’s cartoon series, Interworld, was published as a half-baked 180-page children’s novel, with poor grammar and poor editing, in hardback for $14. Luckily, I borrowed it from a friend, because had I bought it, I would be up in arms.
Don’t humor Gaiman in his artistic constipation; he’s a GREAT leader. Sandman, Mirrormask, Excellent Omens, these are TRUE CLASSICS of their genres, and the man has the potential to change film, comics and literature, if he only continues to make original content. If we allow him to coast in his career by simply cashing in on his already made franchises, he will fail to make an impact. Right fans of Gaiman, stay away from this, and all additional remakes of his work.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This was the worst written book I have read in a very long time! Absolutely NO PLOTTING done by this leader, that’s obvious. He does not bother to tie any of the loose strings together. Everything that happens is just unadorned convenient to the pointless meandering plot, no reason agreed. And the characters are cardboard cut-outs that we know nothing about beyond your basic dungeons and dragon stereotype tale line. I suspect that Gaiman just sat down with a concept and wrote whatever popped into his head, and then gave it to others to proof read for him and give suggestions, and when they said things like, “this just happens for no reason”, he awkwardly went back and place in some clumsy “foreshadowing” here and there. He ongoing with a excellent first chapter and a concept (which is just a small too much like the underground magical London world of “Anubis Gates” by the masterful Tim Powers, written years before) but Gaiman had no thought where he was going after that. All in all, it reads like a “fanfiction” and not even a very excellent one. It was incredibly hard to end reading this mess.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5