I forget how much I love reading until I do it (Neverwhere squee)
This post is much less panicky.
I am updating so much because I am at my parent's house and therefore am going out less in the evenings.
Anyway I just finished reading Neverwhere and I really really really enjoyed it. I haven't read anything properly for ages (not since the summer) because my degree tends to take the fun out of reading. When I was younger (pre A Levels) I was reading a book a day. I love books. I love reading. I need to do it more this next term.
To me (and feel free to disagree) Neil Gaiman writes as if Evelyn Waugh had written fantasy 50 years later. I guess in some little way I am comparing Richard Mayhew to Charles Ryder. Both books also inspired the same sense of loss and a search for something more from life. Although in that respect Neverwhere is a much happier book.
There are not many books that have made me so happy as Neverwhere has in the last few years. And although I would not rank it above The Iliad (makes me cry ever damn time), or Brideshead Revisited, or even Decline and Fall (another brilliant brilliant Waugh novel from his earlier days) it has made me want to read some of his other books.
After I have finally finished A Song of Ice and Fire (so 5 years time then!)
I am updating so much because I am at my parent's house and therefore am going out less in the evenings.
Anyway I just finished reading Neverwhere and I really really really enjoyed it. I haven't read anything properly for ages (not since the summer) because my degree tends to take the fun out of reading. When I was younger (pre A Levels) I was reading a book a day. I love books. I love reading. I need to do it more this next term.
To me (and feel free to disagree) Neil Gaiman writes as if Evelyn Waugh had written fantasy 50 years later. I guess in some little way I am comparing Richard Mayhew to Charles Ryder. Both books also inspired the same sense of loss and a search for something more from life. Although in that respect Neverwhere is a much happier book.
There are not many books that have made me so happy as Neverwhere has in the last few years. And although I would not rank it above The Iliad (makes me cry ever damn time), or Brideshead Revisited, or even Decline and Fall (another brilliant brilliant Waugh novel from his earlier days) it has made me want to read some of his other books.
After I have finally finished A Song of Ice and Fire (so 5 years time then!)