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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Apr 27, 2009
Pros: Writing, world-building, characters
Cons: It ended!
Summary: Richard Mayhew lives in contemporary London, has an ordinary job, has an ordinary apartment, and is engaged to the lovely Jessica, whom Richard’s friends think is a bit stuffy and domineering. One day, as Richard and Jessica are on the way to have ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 23, 2010
Pros: Gaiman's prose is good, a fun beginning
Cons: Quickly gets bogged down in details, unoriginal, not really interesting, boring
Summary: Whew--I just finished reading Neil Gaiman's debut novel, Neverwhere, based on his teleplays for the notably forgotten BBC show of the same name from 1996. I count this as his first discounting the collaboration he did with Terry Pratchett in 1990 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 13, 2007
Pros: Wonderfully fascinating dark, witty tale
Cons: Not everything is tied up neatly in the end
Summary: Average Londoner Richard Mayhew is miserable. He may suspect it, but he doesn't know it. Life is not so much something he participates in as something he is swept along with, like driftwood. In other words, he resembles a lot of us, who have a job we ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 10, 2007
Pros: well-crafted, entertaining, Neil Gaiman
Cons: nothing much comes to mind
Summary: Richard Mayhew is just an ordinary guy. He’s leading the perfectly ordinary life – a job he loves to hate, a lovely and annoying fiancé, deadlines and stuff, just the usual – in London. He lives his life like any other guy, scrambling to stay in place ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 13, 2004
Pros: Great visualization through desriptive imagery...
Cons: Starts out slow, but most books tend to...
Summary: Richard Mayhew was an ordinary guy from an ordinary town in Scotland who decided he would head for the big city, so he headed to London. Once he was there, he lived more of an ordinary life, with an ordinary flat, an ordinary job, and an almost ordinary ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 15, 2003
Pros: Fluid writing style, wonderful visuals, lots of twists
Cons: Leaves some questions unanswered
Summary: Richard Mayhew was a normal guy, doing well for himself. In fact, he was doing better than well for himself. He had a great and successful job, and was soon to be married to Jessica, one of the more beautiful women in London.
One night, ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 20, 2002
Pros: The first Gaiman book I read - it kept me coming back for more!
Cons: Wish it couldn't have ended.
Summary: Neil Gaiman became one of my favorite authors after reading this book. I went out and tried to find everything from him that I could get my hands on, and I'm at the stores early every time he has a new book come out. After reading this book, I was ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 26, 2002
Pros: Easy read with great imagery and interesting characters.
Cons: Anticlimatic ending, not too thought provoking.
Summary: I discovered Neverwhere on a long-ago trip to Amazon. I was looking for something a little different, something not revolving around the apocalypse or for that matter horror. What I got was a twisted tale set among forgotten people and lands ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 14, 2002
Pros: Weird, dark, interesting
Cons: Too many unanswered questions
Summary: I took Neverwhere because a friend told me it was a great book, and I began to read it. At 3 AM, I was still reading it. I went to bed after I almost fell off the chair. First thing in the morning, I took the book again (one of the very few ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 21, 2001
Pros: Interesting take on the London subway system
Cons: A few things never really come together to make sense
Summary: This book was lent to me by a guy at work who sometimes lends me books. I'm in favor of this since it keeps my brain cells from withering into bleak desolation on the daily train ride, plus I get to read interesting things I might not otherwise ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 2, 2001
Pros: an imaginative adventure made vivid with rich descriptions.
Cons: hmm......
Summary: I once read a London guidebook that briefly mentioned the abandoned stations of the Underground and immediately my imagination sparked. When I read "Neverwhere" it was like those daydreams were expanded and improved in 400 or so pages. Neil ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 16, 2000
Pros: Imaginative and funny.
Cons: No sequel.
Summary: Neverwhere was a captivating novel that had me engrossed from start to finish.
The adventures taken are wonderful and exciting, and the author's imagination soars. Neverwhere mad my dreams richer, even. I was almost sad when it ended because of ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 7, 2000
Pros: A deftly created world filled with interesting inhabitants
Cons: You got me.
Summary: I was first introduced to Neil Gaiman's work when I was handed a battered paperback of some of his Sandman comics. From this book I was sure that this man had something special. When I heard that he had written a solo novel I bought a copy immediately, ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 7, 2000
Pros: wonderful book, everything is great
Cons: the begining is a little slow...
Summary: Neil Gaiman is a god! This is my favorite book of all time. Richard Mayhew stops to help a girl bleeding on the street and before he knows it, he is thrown into a whole new world known as london Underground. Here, Rats rule, Angels arnt always good, ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 20, 2000
Pros: Dosent drag on at all ,Keeps you interested, and is VERY well written. You'll fall in love with this book!
Cons: Sequal??
Summary: Neverwhere is a modern day tale of the london underground. Richard Mayhew, while on a date with his high maintenence girlfriend, stops to help what seemed like a street girl in trouble. This turns out to be a large mistake, but an encredible ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 21, 2000
Pros: Well Written, Suspenseful, Eery, and Amazingly Creative!!
Cons: NONE WHATSOEVER!!!
Summary: For anyone who's ever been bored of their mundane existence. Submerge yourself into the new reality that Gaiman has created.
I believe that it's safe to say that Neil Gaiman has done it again. You'd think that all his brilliance would have ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 15, 2000
Pros: great characters, creative world, fun page-turner
Cons: mythical implications left me a bit disappointed
Summary: Like most of the reviewers here, I also enjoyed this book. Neil Gaiman does a wonderful job creating an imaginative world filled with eclectic characters. Like Alice in Wonderland, Richard Mayhew (the main character) accidently stumbles into an ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 26, 2000
Pros: Brilliant characters and plot.
Cons: Some graphic violence.
Summary: Neil Gaiman's writing can be quite simply summed up in one word: genius. His grasp of human nature and the way the mind works is just extraordinary. He can put you in a world unlike any you'd ever hope to see, and make it feel so real that you can smell ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 13, 2000
Pros: great premise
Cons: superficial delivery, no real characters, inexplicable happenings
Summary: Title: Neverwhere
by Neil Gaiman
Quick summary: Accountant joins the society for creative anachronism, except...it's real!!!!
Well, there's a bit more to it than that. Richard Mayhew, the aforementioned ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 23, 2000
Pros: Wonderful, creative world, strong plot
Cons: Terribly weak characterization
Summary: I "liked" this book in the same way I "like" popcorn. It provided an immediate rush of flavor and texture without actually satisfying my deeper hunger. It reads like a screenplay (which is not surprising, since it was originally ... read more
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