Shannon's review
Neverwhere
by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author!)
Yeah I think you hit the nail on the head with your last paragraph.
You thought that too? So far I've been the only one, everyone else loves this book! His writing just strikes me as so self-conscious, I feel uncomfortable reading it.
Shannon's review
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author!)
Shannon's review
rating:
bookshelves:
2008,
urban-fantasy
Richard Mayhew is an ordinary young man working in London, with a fiancee, Jessica, a small flat and a life more-or-less figured out. By Jessica. He's not a particularly brave man, or imaginative, and Jessica has his life all sorted for him.
Everything in his life is turned upside-down - quite literally - when he stumbles across an injured girl on the footpath who asks for his help. Despite Jessica's insistence that he leave her there for someone else to take care of, he carries her back to his flat and at her behest, goes in search of someone called the Marquis de Carabas.
By involving himself in her life, her world, he becomes invisible in his own. After the girl, Door, has gone back to London Below, Richard finds that no one can see him or hear him, that they've removed his desk at work and are renting out his apartment while he's in the bath. Jessica can't remember his name. The only thing left for him to do is seek out Door in London Below and somehow get his life back.
...more
Everything in his life is turned upside-down - quite literally - when he stumbles across an injured girl on the footpath who asks for his help. Despite Jessica's insistence that he leave her there for someone else to take care of, he carries her back to his flat and at her behest, goes in search of someone called the Marquis de Carabas.
By involving himself in her life, her world, he becomes invisible in his own. After the girl, Door, has gone back to London Below, Richard finds that no one can see him or hear him, that they've removed his desk at work and are renting out his apartment while he's in the bath. Jessica can't remember his name. The only thing left for him to do is seek out Door in London Below and somehow get his life back.
...more
Yeah I think you hit the nail on the head with your last paragraph.
You thought that too? So far I've been the only one, everyone else loves this book! His writing just strikes me as so self-conscious, I feel uncomfortable reading it.