About this title: Part fiction, part fantasy, part hyper-reality, this is a story about the Other London, where people live in the cellars and sewers and abandoned Underground lines. It is a London divided into "Baronies", in which the common names of London places take a new and strange reality.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Avon Books, Inc
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780380789016ISBN:0380789019
Description: Grade: C. Catalog: Fiction Thriller General Synopsis: 388 pages. 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 bl... read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
Date Published: 2000-11-02
ISBN-13:9780747266686ISBN:0747266689
Description: Good. Name written inside front cover; Lightly read, with a little wear on the corners; no other writing, marks, folds or tears; shipped to you 1st-class-mail at no extra charge! read more
Edition: 2nd Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Avon Books, Dresden, Tennessee, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780380789016ISBN:0380789019
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket as Issued. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers creased; moderate edge wear/ corners, spine hinge and spine creased/ readers slant/ several pages and page tips creased. read more
Edition: Ex-Library 2nd
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Avon
Date Published: 1998-11-01
ISBN-13:9780380789016ISBN:0380789019
Description: Reading Copy or Better (a more c. Mass Market Paperback: Avon: 78901: Ex-Library 2nd: Reading Copy or Better (a more complete description will be provided upon request): Cover Artist: None Credited. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Avon
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780380789016ISBN:0380789019
Description: New. Slight shelf wear. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperbac
Publisher: Avon
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780380789016ISBN:0380789019
Description: Very Good+; All pages and binding are intact. Book may have normal shelf wear with some writing inside. All books shipped from a smoke free home in Michigan. 0380789019. 1.3 x 6.7 x 4.1 Inches; 400 pages. read more
Edition: Later printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 9/2/2003
ISBN-13:9780060557812ISBN:0060557818
Description: Fine. 0060557818 Ships next business day. NEW/UNREAD! ! ! Text is Clean and Unmarked! --Be Sure to Compare Seller Feedback and Ratings before Purchasing--Has a small black line on bottom/exterior edge of pages. May have light shelf wear to cover from storage, if any. read more
"I love this book! The characters are outstanding and dynamic. The premises of many events are intriguing and many others are amusing. I loved reading about the twists and turns of London Below, where people who fall through the cracks go. Fabulous book from start to finish."
"Devenue accro aux mondes de Gaiman depuis peu, je me délectais d'en entamer un nouveau. Surtout son premier roman !
Et là, comme dans tous roman gaimanien, l'objet livre n'existe plus et on entre tel un fluide dans la mer, dans le flux du roman. Très précis, démarrant de manière parallèle : mondes parallèles, temps parallèles et personnages parallèles... on s'immerge plus ou moins, on aime rester entre deux eaux. Comment ces mondes vont ils se téléscoper? Comment les personnages vont ils se croiser? Pour quelles conséquences. On sent que ça va arriver, mais on connaît trop Gaiman pour savoir que cela ne se fera pas comme on le pensait. Imprévisibilité oblige.
On assiste au passage de Richard d'un Londres très commun et morose à un Sub-londres pris au pied de la lettre. Richard Richard Richard, quel personnage étonnant, très dérangeant même, il a finit par m'obséder tellment il était normal, mais tellement que finalement il me paraissait insipide et peu crédible. Mince normalement quand on découvre un nouveau monde, on ne désire pas le quitter le plus vite possible, même avec des poursuivants assez... sanguinaires et cauchemardesques. Mais nan ! Là, il s'obstine à être normal, à désirer la normalité, même : ce qui est détestable à certain moment. On a envie de le secouer, de lui dire d'ouvrir les mirettes.
Heureusement, il y a tout à coup une prise de conscience. M'enfin, vu l'impact... Finalement, c'est encore un tour et détour de Gaiman par rapport à ce qu'on attendait de lui."
"I recently re-read Neverwhere for a Goodreads book group. While I am an avid Neil Gaiman fan, this is not my favorite Gaiman work. Nonetheless, it is still a very entertaining novel based on amazing conceptual ideas and deserving of 4 stars.
I would rate this as one of Gaiman's weaker works for two primary reasons. Foremost, the story was a mini-series first then novelized and I think it shows. Some characters and plot aspects are flat on the page and I believe they probably had more depth when visually portrayed. I rarely enjoy books written after the television series or movie. It seems very hard to move from one medium into the other since they are so different in the manner of storytelling.
Secondly, I think Gaiman was still getting his feet wet in the world of novels. I'm pretty sure that this was Gaiman's first actual novel even though he was already a well-known author in the world of graphic novels. His writing style tends to go hand-in-hand with the use of a visual medium. I think he was acclimated to having an artist "show" the story while he "told" the story. Therefore, Neverwhere is a bit bland in the descriptive department. In the story, Gaiman has created this amazing world, London Below, and as reader I would have liked to been able to visualize more of it for myself.
All that being said, it's still a fun and entertaining read. As Neverwhere set the stage for my picking up American Gods, a later Gaiman work which I consider to be amazing, I'm certainly glad that I read it and was happy to re-read it."
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