Wool, by Hugh Howey - A pretty dark and serious tale of people living underground on a ruined world.ģ. Bridge of Birds, by Barry Hughart - An epic, hilarious mythological adventure.Ģ. So, aside from all of those, here are a few other recommendations:ġ. Despite the theme of the review being 'Read more Neil Gaiman', the books listed below are actually by different authors, since I think I've already made it clear that you should read more Neil Gaiman. I've decided to abuse the popularity of this review to attempt to steer fans of Neverwhere towards a few other books that I think they will enjoy. So, a few years later, and a lot of people seem to like this review, still. I couldn't help but to be completely charmed by and immersed into London Below, right up until the point when some jackass started to wonder, 'Why the hell haven't I read more of Neil Gaiman's books?' He rarely describes anything in a completely straightforward manner, instead choosing to almost fool the reader into visualizing his delightful (or, when appropriate, very undelightful) characters and events. Not only does he capture the essence of fantasy perfectly, but he does so with the trickiness and charming language that seems to be uniquely in the realm of British humorists. It isn't an alternate reality, but reality through the lens of imagination, and possibly some mind altering substances.

No, fantasy is a reflection of reality, but fantastic. He understands that it isn't elves dancing in a forest and drunk dwarves mining for gold with improbably well maintained beards. I kept distracting myself with the thought, 'Why the hell haven't I read more of Neil Gaiman's books?' Then I would have to tell myself to shut up, because I'm reading one right now, and I can return to berating myself later. I didn't enjoy this book as much as I should have. If Richard is ever to return to his former life and home, he must join Lady Door’s quest to save her world-and may well die trying. Here in Neverwhere, Door is a powerful noblewoman who has vowed to find the evil agent of her family’s slaughter and thwart the destruction of this strange underworld kingdom.

Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwhere-a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth.

He stops to help her-an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed.

It is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he discovers a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman’s darkly hypnotic first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of a major talent and became a touchstone of urban fantasy.

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