Neverwhere

**Neverwhere** //by Neil Gaiman//

 * Description:** Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart -- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed -- a dark subculture flourishing in abandoned subway stations and sewer tunnels below the city -- a world far stranger and more dangerous than the only one he has ever known...

//Source: Borders.com//

The story is reminiscent of Douglas Adams's //The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy//, but Neil Gaiman's humor is much darker and his images sometimes truly horrific. Puns and allusions to everything from //Paradise Lost// to //The Wonderful Wizard of Oz// abound, but you can enjoy the book without getting all of them. Gaiman is definitely not just for graphic-novel fans anymore. //--Nona Vero//
 * Reviews:**

//Source: Amazon.com//

"[Gaiman] is, simply put, a treasure house of story, and we are lucky to have him in any media." -- //Stephen King//

"I didn't ever want this book to end . . . Hunter, Islington, Door -- these characters are part of my life now. I see them when I turn corners." --//Tori Amos//

//Source: Borders.com//