#neverwhere book

[thefairyfellermasterstroke]

What are your best Goodreads reviews? Here are my favs:

[theniftycat]

What other Neil Gaiman work might you like?

The biggest thing to know about Neil Gaiman is that each work of his is a mixture of horror, fantasy, and subtle comedy.

That being said, each of his projects is pretty distinct from one another and there might be some that are more up to your tastes than others.

I haven't read some of his newer stuff (because I largely stopped reading as much since the early 2010s), but I'll do my best to remember what matters in other works.

Horror

The Sandman is a great work for horror fans. It's also great for mythology fans and other nerds, but horror is a major push and pull factors.

The comic is probably the greatest body of work Gaiman produced and it's recommended if you're a goth at heart and are comfortable with themes of death and humans being gods' toys.

The Sandman (TV) is a great adaptation, but it's very short so far and doesn't cover the best stories.

Coraline is a horror story for children. It doesn't have anything that's not suitable for kids, but it can be viscerally scary to some people. Both the book and the film are great.

Mirrormask is my personal favourite, it's a low budget film with mindblowing surreal imagery and one of the best soundtracks ever.

It's about a teenage girl who has troubles with her parents (who run a circus, btw) and who gets swiped up by her imagination into a bizarre world that is being eaten by her depression. Not a scary film, per se, but it's disturbing. However, it's a very warm film and it always makes me feel better.

Fantasy

Neverwhere is set in a dimension of twisted London Underground where everything that's straightforward in our world becomes weird and too real.

It really tickled my imagination, I highly recommend the book.

Stardust is set in a more high fantasy setting.

It features kings, witches, ghosts, and a star that fell to the Earth. It has a young protagonist who's not exactly the best or the brightest person, so if you hate such things, stick to the adaptation. In my opinion, the book is just lovely.

American Gods is a darker fantasy that asks the questions: "What if every god people ever believed in became real through the power of their worship? And then what if that worship started fading?"

It's set in the USA and because that country is such a melting pot, there are many gods. And not all of them are happy. This is the book that gave Neil Gaiman his reputation of a writer who loves weird sex scenes.

Humour

Stardust the film is often compared to Princess Bride. It's lighthearted, funny, full of imaginative adventures.

Just a very nice film with an all-star cast.

Anansi Boys is a spin off of American Gods, but it's a lot more lighthearted.

Anansi is a trickster god, so you know things will get funky.

I haven't read The Graveyard Book and The Ocean at the End of the Lane yet, but I hear they're very good as well.

Also, short story collections or Norse Mythology might be a good place to start if you want to get a feel of Neil Gaiman as an author first.

[catwouthats]

I can’t wait to meet other queer Neil Gaiman fans so we can make a group chat called “Gaimen”

[thelastofthebookworms]

Please reblog if you want others to vote. I'll make polls with other female characters (co)-written by Neil Gaiman, don't hesitate to mention your favorites if you don't find them here.

[natuart]

Happy Birthday Neil Gaiman! ♡

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@neil-gaiman If you see this I hope you have a beautiful day!! ♡

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I share this sketch that I did in 2019 because I didn't have time to make a drawing today hahahaha

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So after waking up, I was drinking tea and enjoying the rain. I left the house to walk through the garden, soon joined by my cat, Vampi, although it wasn't long before he ran to hide when the rain came back a little harder. At that moment, for some reason I remembered that it was November 10th and I hadn't done the birthday drawing as I had planned. Luckily, I remembered drawing Neil in a sketchbook back in 2019. And here he is. I present to you a drawing that I made before the pandemic, it is strange that those drawings come to light.

My English is bad, so this is all Google Translate, I hope it's not bad xD

[mack-anthology-mp3]

i just read Neverwhere and oh my gosh i love it so much i love books with a magical underground world and there was this cool eldritch angel and mushroom people and magic doors and and and

[literatureandtrees]

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[always-coffee]

We're all stories in the end.

**clears throat** I've told this story elsewhere (tw: cancer, death), but I'm going to tell it again, for reasons. My mom was responsible for my love of reading and books. She took me to the library. She pretty much never said no when I asked for a book at the bookstore. She loved reading.

At some point, she just stopped reading. I don't know why. I don't know if she was too busy or too stressed or what. But when she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, she was very active--until she wasn't. She was not good at sitting still, ever. And then, she had to.

She felt like hell, and she was bored. So, one day, she asked me for a book--something I loved that I thought she might like. I pulled @neil-gaiman's Neverwhere off my shelf and handed it to her. I told her that it was my favorite Neil book (don't make me pick a fav now, haha).

She absolutely tore through that book, utterly delighted. She loved it. Reading it reignited her love of reading in a way I was, and still am, immensely grateful for. We spent the last year of her life swapping books back in forth. Reading made that year better for her. And me.

So, if you ever wonder if your stories matter, if the book/short stories/poems you are writing make a difference? Remember this. Because they absolutely do, in ways you can know and ways that you can't. Keep writing. The world needs your brilliant bit of weird.

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Alec Scudder- Maurice by E.M. Forster

Hunter- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Sebastian Black- The Sacred Sins of Father Black by St John Starling

Kaiiestron (Kai) l- Witch King by Martha Wells

[crossoceans]

Love a pathetic and relatable protagonist

[balu8]

Den #1: Neverwhere

by Richard Corben

[thelastofthebookworms]

Yes, some characters are still missing. You can only have 10 options per poll. I'll make others, please keep mentioning female characters you'll like to see (yes, I noted Death already).

[hyacinth-supernova]

Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

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" I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane"

[santacoppelia]

I just finished reading Neverwhere, and I’m about to fall into an intertextuality rabbit hole through Neil Gaiman’s tropes, themes and phrases.

Don’t wait me up, children. This is going to take some time.

I’ll just say that I've just read about an angel living in a trendy district with antique shops and places to eat, who is named after a place, who drinks a very fancy wine… And he is a perfect bastard who loves old music. If you haven’t read or listened to Neverwhere, you don’t need any more spoilers.

No. Not a single thought in my head, really. I won’t spoil anything more. I guess that I’ll spend part of my “birthday holiday” writing this (and reading some more stuff, obviously).

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

Hunter is WLW and uses she/her pronouns!