Neverwhere (Best Seller | Ficción)

I enjoyed it quite much because I have been quite often to London and hence know the setting, well, at last the Upper London :D I wasn't too happy with the very Ending, it was quite obvious. However, the plot twists very pretty neat. I need to watch the TV Series now^^

In einer anderen Rezension habe ich gelesen: "Why the hell haven't I read more of Neil Gaiman's books?" und - man ahnt wie es weitergeht - ich stelle mir die selbe Frage. Wie konnte mir Neil Gaiman so lange entgehen? Manchmal fragt man sich ja schon, was man bisher mit seinem (lesenden) Leben gemacht hat. Mit anderen Worten: "Neverwhere" hat mich sehr begeistert. Diese unaufgeregte Art zu erzählen, kombiniert mit dem großartigen, trockenen Humor ... grandios. Es wird nicht mein letztes Buch von Neil Gaiman gewesen sein, soviel ist schon mal sicher.

Did Door and Richard end up together?!?!

I was not really expecting any romance in the book, at all. But why put a hint, and not follow through. That is the only "problem" I had with this book. Everything else is awesome. The story. The characters, yes even Jessica and Islington amd Mr Croup and Mr Vandemar. The location. The atmosphere. I was taken on a roller-coaster ride of feelings. My expectations were met. My weird mind, which predicts the ends, was surprised. Now I know why Gaiman is one of the authors praised out there.

I read this book ages ago and loved it. Now I listened to the audio book and am so torn!  For the first half I just wanted to stop listening and dnf. But after a while I started to like it. Also I didn't remember a single thing about the plot even though I read it in 2016!  I hated Richard, he was so unsure about himself and I get that it was mostly to have a lot of character development, but still....  Also Door is supposedly the female lead, but most of the plot just happened at her and she wasn't an active part in it. She was the protected damsel in distress that our incapable hero somehow had to rescue.  I loved the whole world Gaiman built for this book, London Below. Lots of colorful, quirky characters and fun details!  The audio book I listened to also had the short story "How the Marquis got his Coat Back" which added even more details to London Below. And because it focused on the Marquis I enjoyed it a lot more than the main story.

Leider hatte es für mich ziemliche längen und es hat etwas gedauert es fertig zu lesen. Ich mochte die Charaktere, v.a. den Marquis und hätte gerne noch mehr über ihn erfahren. Dass die Welt von London Below für Richard neu ist ist klar, allerdings fühlen sich auch manche Begegnungen und Geschehnisse für mich als sehr unerklärlich an - was möglicherweise genau so gewollt ist, keine Ahnung. Hat mich auf jeden Fall wiedermal an der einen oder anderen Stelle zum Lachen gebracht, aber für mich gehört es nicht unbedingt zu einem der besseren Werke von Neil Gaiman.

Fantastic!

The journey with Richard was very imaginative but I didn't really liked him as a character. That made reading a bit annoying. I found the book after reading a short story from the Marquis' pov in an anthology and I would have loved to read more about him instead! The book was too short in general. It misses out on a lot of interpersonal relationships. I liked the idea of the ratspeakers and hoped that Anaesthesia would have a bigger role but instead she was gone like ten pages after her introduction. Nevertheless Richard thinks about her for the rest of the book ... that's not how I would define an important character. The writing is brilliant and I would have loved to have hundreds of pages more. The ideas are fantastic and creative, with brilliant details. I can't really criticize what's there, only that there is not enough of it.

DNF @ page 82 - This book clearly wasn't for me.

Finally a fantasy book with fantasy again ;) I loved the ideas Neil Gaiman put in this book. I've seen a documentation once about those underground stations, and that beggars live there. The thought is creepy that the underground people really exist (well maybe without door, De Carabas, giant monsters etc.) I'll never be able to drive by sub in London again without taking a really close look at the people around me.

After reading the short story in Rogues I really wanted to delve a bit more into this universe. I can really say I enjoyed every page, the characters are really unique and the overall story quite entertaining. I am just a bit sad that Neil Gaiman said he'd never continue a story..