Neverwhere
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Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinarylife, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.
Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinarylife, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.
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Reads like non-fiction...reminded me of And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, which sounds weird, but if you read both books I think you'll understand.
World War Z uses an interesting concept: the idea of collecting an oral history about something that didn't really happen. I like the idea of this in itself -- Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home convinced me of that -- and thought this was a fair enough attempt at it. The political scenarios are well thought out, and the consequences of all sorts of different actions and ideas are traced through to their conclusions. It really could happen this way, and it really could be recorded this way --
By a biased, probably white, male, of course. It'd be really clever if Max Brooks wrote it that way on purpose: male interviewees outnumbering the female, political bias on the part of the archivist, etc.
It'd be nice to think it was done that way on purpose, even, but I can't quite buy that, cleverly put together as the whole thing is. Cracks show, like the general evenness of tone: all the different narrators sound very similar, the political slant is nearly all one way, etc. It remains obviously a book by a single author. Still, it's a fun central conceit, and though I began to get a bit bored of it by the end, it was an interesting take on a what-might-be.
By a biased, probably white, male, of course. It'd be really clever if Max Brooks wrote it that way on purpose: male interviewees outnumbering the female, political bias on the part of the archivist, etc.
It'd be nice to think it was done that way on purpose, even, but I can't quite buy that, cleverly put together as the whole thing is. Cracks show, like the general evenness of tone: all the different narrators sound very similar, the political slant is nearly all one way, etc. It remains obviously a book by a single author. Still, it's a fun central conceit, and though I began to get a bit bored of it by the end, it was an interesting take on a what-might-be.
This was my first foray into the writings of Neil Gaiman. I believe I had actually read about an intriguing movie on Netflix, and from there learned it was based on a book. I checked out the book and after reading it decided to never see the movie, as it was inevitable that they would butcher it.
This was just . . . brilliant. I loved the concept of a London-beneath, and the fantasy aspect aligned so perfectly with the real-world aspect. He's an incredibly talented and brilliant author.
If you like fantasy, if you enjoy having your perceptions challenged, if you like to look at the ordinary through an extraordinary lens -- read Neil Gaiman. You won't be disappointed.
This was just . . . brilliant. I loved the concept of a London-beneath, and the fantasy aspect aligned so perfectly with the real-world aspect. He's an incredibly talented and brilliant author.
If you like fantasy, if you enjoy having your perceptions challenged, if you like to look at the ordinary through an extraordinary lens -- read Neil Gaiman. You won't be disappointed.
An allegory for unchecked capitalism (it's no mistake that the walking dead first appear in China). And is it just me, or did the whole zombie genre take off during eight years of Republican (mis)rule of the United States? Some grad student should research that...
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