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[jakia]

I loved Neverwhere infinitely more than I liked American Gods, and I loved American Gods.

Why the crap is there no fanfiction for it?  I ship Richard x Door like the burning.

Paper Towns by John Green is very amusing and a very fast read.  I started today and I'm already halfway through it.

Also, would anyone like to take a stab at reading over the

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[jade_sabre_301]

yay, someone else who loved American Gods! I keep meaning to pick up more Neil Gaiman, but I just loved American Gods so much...still, if you say Neverwhere is better, I will try it.

Paper Towns is even better if you have read JG's other books first, but I forgive you if you haven't.

alsooooooooooooooooo do you still have mah email address?

[jakia]

I loved American Gods. It got kind of slow there at points, but overall, I really liked it. I wish they focused a little more on (SPOILERS, DAMNIT, SPOILERS) Shadow as Wednesday's son. (SPOILERS ARE OVER YOU CAN KEEP READING) But, you know, I can forgive them.

I liked Neverwhere more because it was more Harry Potter-esque, and I miss the Harry Potter books. Like, by a ridiculous amount.

Paper Towns ended up making me ANGRY. What a pointless book. I get it, Margo and Q were different, incompatible people, but still. Q did all this amazing stuff for this girl and she what, stays in NY by herself? Bullshit, John Green. Bullshit.

[jade_sabre_301]

You know what got me most about AG? The fact that (SPOILER, THIS COUNTS AS ONE) we never found out Shadow's real name. And Gaiman has the balls to point out to us that we don't know it, and then distracts us and never actually tells us. GRAGH. (SPOILERS ARE OVER I HOPE YOU JUST SKIPPED THE WHOLE PARAGRAPH)

ooooooooooooh I see. Man, I watched the trailer for DH the other day, and like, even though I've only read DH once, and even though the line "I have something worth living for" is totally cheesy, it still made me tear up like whoa.

WELL the thing about it is that Q spends the whole book building Margo up in his mind, right? Which is what the guy characters do to the FMCs in Green's previous two books. So breaking that illusion was a big step forward for him as an author, and I was actually really happy that Q realized Margo (and that Margo realized Q!) was not what he/she had built her/him up to be in his/her head.

also did you get my reply.

[redbrunja]

Neverwhere is one of my favorite Neil Gaimen books.

[jakia]

Mine too! I've read a total of three Neil Gaimen books (The Graveyard Book, American Gods, and now Neverwhere) and Neverwhere is totally my favorite. WHY IS THERE NO FANFICTION? Or better yet, why is there not a sequel? I want to see warrior!Richard at home in London Below! Argh!

[redbrunja]

The Graveyard Book is totally on my to-read list.

Also, have you read Stardust? You might like it.