At some point in the past year or so, I somehow got the idea that I didn’t especially like Neil Gaiman books; I blame a probably-too-fast re-reading of American Gods. Then I picked up Neverwhere off my TBR shelf (and it is a full shelf and a half right now), and I was reminded, oh, yeah, that’s why… Neverwhere is basically Gaiman’s breakout hit, the novelization of a tv show that Gaiman says he’d always kind of intended to make into a novel, even as […]
Is it just me, or it the title never mentioned in the book?
Some rolling thoughts as I went through the book: I have no idea what’s going on. Jessica is a bitch. Was Richard cheating on her? I think he mentions underwear belonging to someone else… but he doesn’t seem the type…or was this a figment of my imagination… Richard does not deserve that phone. It makes him appear way cooler than he is. “Richard was not an enthusiastic holder of pigeons, even at the best of times.” I like how they used the special effect for […]
Knock knock knocking on heaven’s Door
Richard Mayhew is an ordinary London guy with an ordinary London life, until a chance encounter with an injured girl plunges him into a world he doesn’t know exists, London Below. London Below is where “the other people” live, those that have been forgotten by society and fallen through the cracks. Lady Door is from an esteemed family in this universe with unique talent, the ability to open things, and when her family is torn apart (um, literally) she goes on a quest to discover why. […]
We’re All A Little Richard Mayhew
This is my third Gaiman book, and I am continually impressed by Gaiman’s ability to break down every trope of the genre and rebuild it in a way that both continues to be fantastical but also makes it accessible. “Neverwhere” is a dark, dangerous, high stakes journey that in the hands of any other fantasy writer would need a main character of power, or at least someone with an attribute that sets them apart. But Gaiman chooses to tell his story through someone so average, […]