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Review: Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
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7-16-2007 12:46 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6d713e48-e237-4e3f-acef-7318151ff148/79F1CF7A-95C8-4003-832F-CC26DDA3FB70/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/neil-gaiman-neverwhere.html" href="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/neil-gaiman-neverwhere.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.readforpleasure.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/neil-gaiman-neverwhere.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.readforpleasure.com/img/D834A08C-E240-4B8C-8C57-CC4C0A93DE5E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/neil-gaiman-neverwhere.html"><DIV>Richard Mayhew is a nondescript Londoner who one day performs an act of kindness: he stops to help an injured girl. The girl is the Lady Door, and by helping her Richard is sucked into the world of London Below. Unable to return home, Richard has little choice but to join Door's motley entourage.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/neil-gaiman-neverwhere.html">The freshness of <I>Neverwhere</I> is that the magical world is part of the "real" world, usually unseen but ever present. London Below is the sewers, tunnels, crawlspaces, and Tube stations of London. It's a gritty shadow city in which legends are real and villains <A href="http://www.neilgaiman.com/works/books/neverwhere/excerpt_format_hb.html">are vile</A>. But its roots in the familiar are what create that <I>frisson</I> the next time you step over a sewer grate.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/neil-gaiman-neverwhere.html"><H4>Points for style</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/neil-gaiman-neverwhere.html"><DIV><I>Neverwhere</I> is full of allusions to urban legend, Arthurian and Greek legend, fairytales, horror classics....</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/neil-gaiman-neverwhere.html">Gaiman <A href="http://www.sfsite.com/03a/ng52.htm">gave Lucy Snyder</A> his fantasy cast for <I>Neverwhere</I>:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/neil-gaiman-neverwhere.html">Peter Sellers</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/neil-gaiman-neverwhere.html">the young <A href="http://www.brigittebardot.com/">Brigitte Bardot</A> playing Door</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/neil-gaiman-neverwhere.html">The young Alec Guiness</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/neil-gaiman-neverwhere.html"><A href="http://www.pandorasbox.com/">Louise Brooks</A> playing Hunter.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/neil-gaiman-neverwhere.html">I may try <I><A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0380804557?ie=UTF8&tag=readforplea-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0380804557">Stardust</A></I> since the <A href="http://www.stardustmovie.com/">movie’s due out</A>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/79F1CF7A-95C8-4003-832F-CC26DDA3FB70/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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