His audiobooks are wonderful. He reads them himself, so he knows exactly the tone of voice to use. This was my introduction to Gaimon, so I have a soft spot for it.
Skip the first chapter and start reading Neverwhere with Chapter Two, it vastly improves the reading experience. Depicting the hero at the very beginning as a mega wimp beta loser is a serious tactical blunder by Neil Gaiman. The edition Brian is holding includes the great tie-in novella 'How The Marquis Got His Coat Back.' It's worth the price of the admission alone.
Please read the stars my destination by alfred Bester and do a review it was written in 1956 and holds up today which is hard with scifi I just listened to it last night read it from the library when I was 10 or 11 in the early eighties found it on RU-vid Love the Dresden files wish the show had made it past first season Currently looking for some good post apocalypse reads Definitely gonna check this out I was in Okinawa on deploymentswhen this was published my permanent duty station was Oahu and was known by name at borders in Honolulu
Never where is my first Gaiman book. I found it on the Walmart book display after finishing my Christmas shopping back in highschool and decided to pick it up as a xmas gift to myself. He and Charles Delint got me into reading urban fantasy. I really need to revisit Newford.
Awesome review Brian! I personally think it is even better on a reread. I reread it this year, and it’s been several years since I first read it. So good!
I own this edition as well. Also I’m still slowly making my way thru Lonesome Crown and am thoroughly enjoying. Petrik just released it high up in his top read books this year. My friend is also almost finished w it and is an all time favorite for him as well!
I thought the book was great. Apparently I liked it a lot more than Brian and some of you others here in the comments. Not one of his best, but still very good. I'm really looking forward to the sequel, The Seven Sisters, if he ever gets around to publishing it. I know he was working on it as early as 2017, but still no sign of it. That's probably the worst thing about Gaiman as a writer, to me - that he doesn't write more! I guess not every writer can be as prolific as King or Patterson. ;)
It's hard to tell if he's doing one of his bits like when he was giving his library tour and showed the book "The Count of Monte Cristo" and pronouncing Alexander Dumas as Alexander Dumbass.
