Neverwhere (London Below, #1) in The Complete Idiots Guide to the Ultimate Reading List

Dec 12, 2021 Sheida rated it liked it · review of another edition

Richard had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.

This is my 4th Neil Gaiman book and if my sister won't mock me, I'd like to say that I have yet to be fully impressed by his books or his style of writing to be honest. Don't get me wrong, the story is an interesting one, there's a lot of fascinating world-building happening here and a whole lot of imagination that's gone into this book, I'm just not tha ...more

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Jul 23, 2010 Lisa (Harmonybites) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary, fantasy, horror, novels, fiction, ebooks, ultimate-reading-list

I loved this: the ultimate urban fantasy. In our modern society, when a person falls below the social net and becomes a streetperson, we talk of them "falling through the cracks." In the London of Neverwhere, when people "fall through the cracks" they reach the "underside" of "London Below." The kind of place where Knightsbridge becomes Night's Bridge, where crossing into nightmare takes a toll beyond price. Where the "Floating Market", a bizarre bazaar, might take place in a closed Harrods afte ...more

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Apr 16, 2010 Cat rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

The first page of this book states the following about the author - "Neil Gaiman is a messy-haired white male author trapped in the body of an identical white male author with perhaps even less-tidy hair. His books and comics have won many awards. He thanks you for your offer of a comb but does not believe it would do any good. Despite being English, he lives more in America than he does anywhere else in the world, and is currently somewhere in his mid-forties. He wrote this book especially for ...more

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