Neverwhere
This book is in a Controlled Release!
2 journalers for this copy...
Ok, I admit it. I picked this up at a used book sale so that I could bookcross it.
I really like this book. In fact, it might be time to read it again before I release this copy.
Oh, yeah, and apparently this book was restricted in a Texas public school during the 2002-2003 school year.
Other copies on my shelf:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5041162
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/739571
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10514991
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From the author's website:
Richard Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job and a pretty but demanding fiancee. Then one night he stumbles across a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her--and the life he knows vanishes like smoke.
Several hours later, the girl is gone too. And by the following morning Richard Mayhew has been erased from his world. His bank cards no longer work, taxi drivers won't stop for him, his hundred rents his apartment out to strangers. He has become invisible, and inexplicably consigned to a London of shadows and darkness a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere.
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If Tim Burton reimagined The Phantom of the Opera, if Jack Finney let his dark side take over, if you rolled the best work of Clive Barker, Peter Straub and Caleb Carr into one, you still would have something that fell far short of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. It is a masterful debut novel of darkly hypnotic power, and one of the most absorbing reads to come along in years.
I really like this book. In fact, it might be time to read it again before I release this copy.
Oh, yeah, and apparently this book was restricted in a Texas public school during the 2002-2003 school year.
Other copies on my shelf:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5041162
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/739571
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10514991
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From the author's website:
Richard Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job and a pretty but demanding fiancee. Then one night he stumbles across a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her--and the life he knows vanishes like smoke.
Several hours later, the girl is gone too. And by the following morning Richard Mayhew has been erased from his world. His bank cards no longer work, taxi drivers won't stop for him, his hundred rents his apartment out to strangers. He has become invisible, and inexplicably consigned to a London of shadows and darkness a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere.
....
If Tim Burton reimagined The Phantom of the Opera, if Jack Finney let his dark side take over, if you rolled the best work of Clive Barker, Peter Straub and Caleb Carr into one, you still would have something that fell far short of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. It is a masterful debut novel of darkly hypnotic power, and one of the most absorbing reads to come along in years.
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Released in conjunction with the August 2009 One Word Release Challenge - I wanted to find a good home for this, and the timing worked out..
I read this again before letting it go, but it went out today as a Wishlist RABCK. Enjoy!
Free your books - help spread the words!
Released in conjunction with the August 2009 One Word Release Challenge - I wanted to find a good home for this, and the timing worked out..
I read this again before letting it go, but it went out today as a Wishlist RABCK. Enjoy!
Free your books - help spread the words!
Oh, thank you for sharing this and for thinking of me! I tried to read this a few years ago and was in "a mood" and couldn't get into the story. Now I have a chance to try again, thanks to you!
Second time was a charm in the case of this book. I was able to stay with the story and really enjoyed it this time around! Thanks again to hyphen8 for sending this to me. I will find the book a new home soon.
Journal Entry 5 by 
jare
at Meetup Bookbox, Bookcrossing Meetup -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, July 18, 2010
jare at Meetup Bookbox, Bookcrossing Meetup -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, July 18, 2010
Released 13 yrs ago (7/23/2010 UTC) at Meetup Bookbox, Bookcrossing Meetup -- Controlled Releases
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Adding this to the BC Meetup Bookbox headed back to Bc in DC soon!
