Father and daughter reviews: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Posted by 3Dsound at Wednesday, July 16, 2008 6:32 PM and is filed under Popular Culture,Neil Gaiman,3d's daughter,review 
Review (updated, with daughter's content added; retitled; and bumped up from 12-
Neil Gaiman (1997), Neverwhere, New York: Avon Books
3D's daughter's review (she who is entering ninth grade)
Neverwhere is a confusing fantasy that switches between two worlds, London Above and London Below. The main characters in the story are Richard, a man from London who looses everything he loves & owns when he finds an injured girl lying on the sidewalk. The other characters who are from London Below & don't even really exist in London Above are Door, the girl Richard found, Hunter, Door's bodyguard, who sells them out in the end to the bad guys, & Marquis de Carabas, Door's friend/business partner.
Some of my favorite parts were when Richard meets the Marquis. Another is the Night's Bridge because it's like the dark is living. I also liked the first market scene & the part where Richard & Hunter kill the Beast of London.
Even though the book was confusing & hard for me to get into in the beginning, I would still recommend it because it gets better as you go on!
3D's review (he who isn't grey yet)
Imagine the movie Nowhere (directed by Gregg Araki, 1997) relocated from Huntington Beach to the platforms of the London underground. Now imagine the movie's characters and their partying concerns aged by ten years and the role of the alien taken over by a fallen angel. Keep in mind the movie's tightly framed close-ups, which force the viewer to see pulsing realities that lie just a shadow below our sated experience. Your result could be the novel Neverwhere, which is less brash than the movie but more goth. Whether you find the movie or novel more affecting depends on whether it's aliens or fallen angels that you avoid more.
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