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Post by shadow1921 on Nov 28, 2009 15:50:31 GMT -5
Neil Gaman is the author of Neverwhere. "It's the story of Richard Mayhew, a plain man with a good heart. Unhappy in love and in life, Richard is thrust into a dark and evil world when he stops to help a young girl he finds bleeding in the street. Now Richard has much more than work and girlfriend dilemmas on his mind -- now he's wanted by two very evil, powerful, and nasty mercenaries." Website: www.neilgaiman.com
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Post by annakathy on Nov 28, 2009 16:24:09 GMT -5
American Gods is another book by Neil Gaiman. This one is about Shadow who gets out of prison early when his wife is killed in a car crash. At a loss, he takes up with a mysterious character called Wednesday, who is much more than he appears. In fact, Wednesday is an old god, once known as Odin the All-father, who is roaming America rounding up his forgotten fellows in preparation for an epic battle against the upstart deities of the Internet, credit cards, television, and all that is wired. Shadow agrees to help Wednesday, and they whirl through a psycho-spiritual storm that becomes all too real in its manifestations. For instance, Shadow's dead wife Laura keeps showing up, and not just as a ghost--the difficulty of their continuing relationship is by turns grim and darkly funny, just like the rest of the book.
Armed only with some coin tricks and a sense of purpose, Shadow travels through, around, and underneath the visible surface of things, digging up all the powerful myths Americans brought with them in their journeys to this land as well as the ones that were already here. Shadow's road story is the heart of the novel, and it's here that Gaiman offers up the details that make this such a cinematic book--the distinctly American foods and diversions, the bizarre roadside attractions, the decrepit gods reduced to shell games and prostitution. "This is a bad land for Gods," says Shadow. (this was written on amazon )
This is my favorite Neil Gaiman book!
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Post by Amante dei Libri on Jan 22, 2010 17:37:06 GMT -5
I read Stardust and loved everything about it. (Of course, it took me an insane amount of time to read for such a small book--I was reading the heavily illustrated edition and kept getting distracted.) And I own Neverwhere in Italian (of which I am not fluent in, but would like to be someday).
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Post by blodeuedd on Jan 29, 2010 5:52:29 GMT -5
I have only read Stardust, but loved it, so funny adn cute. I do listen to The Graveyard book, and it was ok, but I am sure it is better since I do nto like audio books
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