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Thursday, December 08, 2005

neil gaiman rocks.

3:07 PM

oh wow. i just finished reading neil gaiman's neverwhere. i am now left with a weird sense of emptiness.

reading the book takes you into a whole new world, you're catapulted into this mysterious world that probably does not exist, but you believe it exists anyway (that is until the end when you realise that youve reached the end and the rest of the pages in the book are just blank). that's when you make contact with reality again. sigh.

neil gaiman is an amazing writer. i don't know how he thinks up of such stories. the everyday stuff that we take for granted are turned into a new civilisation (for a lack of a better word). yea, it's been done before, j k rowling and tolkien and yadda yadda but to come up with these new ideas for every single book that really test the limits of what is real and what isn't is really no easy feat. he gives everything an unconventional twist. i swear gaiman personifies the 'think out of the box' cliche. with gaiman, there aren't any boundaries.

in neverwhere, our main character richard chooses to return to his normal world. after such an exciting adventure and being proclaimed a warrior and accomplishing feats that he'd thought he'd never do...he longs for normality. unfortunately, his initial excitiment and happiness are reduced to boredom and he finds something missing in his mundane life. he asks, is this all there is? richard finds a solution to his predicament (of course, don't we all like happy endings?), but the reader doesn't - you are left with wanting more.

ahaha. don't want to overanalyse, at the risk of sounding stupid or pretentiously intellectual. good book, the closest you can get to an out of body experience.

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