false <![CDATA[Neverwhere]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256043714m/337130.jpg 14497 36 <p> Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small 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. </p> 16534 book 1996 Neverwhere: A Novel total:21149|5:7762|4:8458|3:3997|2:785|1:147| 21149 86350 28525 2022 2 14 false false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Oct 23 13:37:03 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 13:43:54 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 15 false false Fri Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 12:58:50 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 09:53:36 -0700 2008
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The person who turned me on to this wasn't too...more...]]> 4 5 false false Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Dec 15 08:49:01 -0800 2008 Thu May 21 10:47:30 -0700 2009 2 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.

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The basic plot has an Alice in Wonderland quality with typical, understated British humor. The main cha...more...]]> 3 5 false false Thu Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 07:55:31 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 09:17:54 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Dec 18 12:44:00 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 18 13:59:16 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 4 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu May 24 11:46:05 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 17 06:22:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon May 14 06:57:43 -0700 2007 Mon May 14 19:27:06 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 3 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 04 16:26:37 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 15:41:32 -0800 2008 1
I just don't care. I read about characters and I don't care if they find a ...more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Oct 21 18:19:45 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 02 20:31:26 -0800 2009 The character development wasn't what I think it could have been in a story that was this original and interesting. Although the characters weren't great (but not bad)-- I thought the imagery of the "underworld" the author created was impressive. I thought the whole premise of the...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 26 05:45:45 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 15:01:54 -0800 2009 Surtout son premier roman !

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The storytelling is of course top-notch. From page one I sank into Gaimen's vision of a second London existing beneath the first in sewers and abandoned a...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=337130