Neverwhere
Registered by winnie-poo5 of Bardstown, Kentucky USA on 6/12/2005
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
3 journalers for this copy...
Bought this book at a book sale.
Waiting for me in the mail when I returned from vacation . . . thanks!
Received today from VH-50 via BookRelay. Thanks a bunch! :')
I'm now convinced that something must be wrong with me, because as much as I want to like Neil Gaiman based on how everyone else seems to love his writing, I just can't. He does a great job narrating his own audiobooks, and his writing itself is decent enough. It's quite good, in fact. But I guess it's the subject matter or the genre that I can't make myself love. This is the third work of Gaiman's that I've read, and I've felt more or less the same about each one. The writing is good, but I just don't find myself all that interested in the storylines. My mind wanders, and I find myself waiting for the book to end so that I can move on to my next read.
In this particular novel, Richard Mayhew is an average sort of guy living in London. He's got a decent job, a good-looking but demanding fiancée, and an all-around average kind of life. But when he one day stops to help a young girl on the sidewalk who's been injured, his life turns completely upside down. Or rather, the life as he knows it becomes non-existent, he "falls through the cracks," and finds himself in the Underworld of London. There, he meets all sorts of eccentric characters, battles good and evil, and discovers hidden strengths he didn't know that he had. As with Gaiman's other stories, it's a hard novel to classify and doesn't particularly fit into a single genre, although fantasy/sci-fi would probably cover most of it.
I'm still convinced that there must be a story of Gaiman's out there that will appeal to me, and so I'm not quite ready to give up on him yet, especially since I have a few more of his books sitting on my bookshelves waiting to be read. But I think I need to fit in a few other authors before I try him again.
In this particular novel, Richard Mayhew is an average sort of guy living in London. He's got a decent job, a good-looking but demanding fiancée, and an all-around average kind of life. But when he one day stops to help a young girl on the sidewalk who's been injured, his life turns completely upside down. Or rather, the life as he knows it becomes non-existent, he "falls through the cracks," and finds himself in the Underworld of London. There, he meets all sorts of eccentric characters, battles good and evil, and discovers hidden strengths he didn't know that he had. As with Gaiman's other stories, it's a hard novel to classify and doesn't particularly fit into a single genre, although fantasy/sci-fi would probably cover most of it.
I'm still convinced that there must be a story of Gaiman's out there that will appeal to me, and so I'm not quite ready to give up on him yet, especially since I have a few more of his books sitting on my bookshelves waiting to be read. But I think I need to fit in a few other authors before I try him again.
Journal Entry 5 by indygo88 at Little Free Library - Kalberer Rd. in West Lafayette, Indiana USA on Saturday, September 23, 2017
Released 6 yrs ago (9/23/2017 UTC) at Little Free Library - Kalberer Rd. in West Lafayette, Indiana USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Dropped off at Little Free Library. :)
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