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  • Neverwhere

  • By: Neil Gaiman
  • Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
  • Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (41,565 ratings)

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Neverwhere

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Publisher's summary

National Best Seller

Selected as one of NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All Time

The number one New York Times best-selling author's wildly successful first novel featuring his new Neverwhere tale, "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back".

Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.

"A fantastic story that is both the stuff of dreams and nightmares" (San Diego Union-Tribune), Neil Gaiman's first solo novel has become a touchstone of urban fantasy and a perennial favorite of readers and listeners everywhere.

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Critic reviews

"Gaiman's gift for mixing the absurd with the frightful gives this novel the feeling of a bedtime story with adult sophistication. Readers will find themselves as unable to escape this tale as the characters themselves." ( Library Journal)
"Delightful…inventively horrific."( USA Today)
"[Gaiman] is, simply put, a treasure house of story, and we are lucky to have him in any media." (Stephen King)

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Good book, subpar reading

Gaiman reads every passage with the same measured I-am-narrating-a-book voice and it leaves the world feeling slightly lifeless. I enjoyed the story but would have preferred a professional audio book reader.

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Great story

Loved the story and all the characters. It had me captured from the start. The performance matched the book and felt very spirited.

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Great Narration with weird audio mixing.

Great story and narrator but the quirky voice effects and music were distasteful in my opinion.

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Wonderful story with great narration

Move over Brothers Grimm. Gaiman is one of the very best story tellers ever. The fantasy of Neverwhere is superior to anything Rowling has written. I was totally absorbed by Richard’s journey through London down under. Gaiman writes so well and narrates his story perfectly. His prose is rich and delicious to hear and read. I am well over 60 and he made me feel like a child listening to my mother read one of Grimm’s fairy tales and hanging on every word. I loved this book so much that I also purchased it in hard copy so I could read along with the narration.
If you love well written prose and like fantasy that is both dark and light and humorous in a wicked way - then Gaiman’s books are a must read.

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Another Gaiman great

I love how this author does the voices for if not all then most of his stories. Which the story itself is marvellous and a great character growth kind of novel. Gaiman's world building always feels so personal and in depth.

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The fact that this was read by the author makes it all the more worthwhile to purchase. It added a depth that I don't even recall in the book and the addition of the short story at the end was a pleasant surprise.

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Great!

Enjoyed it! Loved that it was the author who read it! The listener was really able to feel the characters personality and expression!

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Fantastic!!

This story was almost instantly a favorite of mine and I truly hope they make a series out of this!

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wonderful story

The narration is great, story is interesting and engaging, one of my favorites from Gaiman.

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Absolutely loved it!!!

I read Neverwhere several years ago and truly enjoyed the adventure. So when I saw it on Audible, I knew I’d love listening to it. It was even better than I’d imagined! Loved the addition at the end!! Totally unexpected!! It prolonged the fun. Neil Gaiman narrates as well as he writes. It’s a must listen for sure!

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