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Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinarylife, 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.

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Mythic magic

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This was the first Neil Gaiman novel I ever read. I picked it up in London as we were boarding the plane to fly back to Canada. I know the London Underground very well, having lived in the city off and on since 1970. What I immediately loved was the way he plays back and forth with metaphor and description. I mean, Earls Court as a real court inhabiting one of the coaches - brilliant! This guy really knows how to bring myth to life, and by myth I don't mean something that has no contact with reality, I mean the something that underlies reality, just as the London Underground exists beneath the city. If a genie popped out of a bottle to grant me just one wish it would be "Please teach me to write like Neil Gaiman."

If you liked Alice...	Customer Rating:
As a big fan of the Alice in Wonderland story and a big fan of London, I was excited to read this book. And I was definetly not disappointed! The story brings forth a new dimension to everyday London living with wonderful characters and a surprising story line. I always did wonder why people needed to mind the Gap...

Fantastic narrative	Customer Rating:
This book got me completely into Neil Gaiman. I read all of his other books after this one. If you are already a Gaiman fan you'll like it even more.

The perfect book...

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I work in a used bookstore and read a lot of books of all genres. Gaiman is tough to categorize. I have read American Gods and Anansi Boys and toroughly enjoyed them, but Neverwhere blew me away. It you enjoy reading, you will lose yourself in this book. It has everything you want in a book. Most importantly, Gaiman knows how to end a book. It is depressing lately to invest your time in a book that disappoints in the end. This doesn't. May be one of the best endings of a book ever.

Don't buy audio version

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The primary aim of an audio recording is to be clear and understandable and Neil Gaiman's recording of Neverwhere is neither. The author has the annoying habit of dropping his voice on the last few words of each sentence, making them unintelligible. The only option is to turn up the volume, thus risking hearing damage as the first part of each sentence is now very loud. On certain sections, he adds special effects (echos, static) which make those sections completely unintelligible. This may be a great book, but I will never know as I gave up in frustration after about 1 hour.