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Old 12th July 2006, 09:32 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Neverwhere

Have read the book several times now and like Ada love the idea of a London Below. Loved his depictions of the tube stations. In fact my most recent reading of it came after Ada posted that she was reading it again.

They all fit perfectly. Hammersmith is depicted as a smith and I really do like him. I'll have to say that Ear's Court was my favourite of the 'places'. It was all so very quirky and whimsical and surreal.

The Marquis of Carrabas was a character and a half and really very cat-like. I think if a cat assumed human form, he really would behave in this fashion.

I read the book several times before I even knew that there was a BBC series. I only saw the series this year and while I liked it, the book wins hands down. Having said that I must also give the series creadit for turning several of my colleagues who'd never read Gaiman's work before into readers of his books. They all of them went and bought the book after I'd loaned them the Neverwhere series on DVD.
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