Subject: Reading Journey #3 2008 11/07-11/20
Name: Neverwhere
Author: Neil Gaiman
Type: Fiction
Publishing Co .: Harper Torch
Year of publishing: 2001
No. of pages: 370p
Richard, a normal human being as you and me, had a normal but potential job, a beautiful but annoying fiancée, and a small but comfortable apartment, with no habit and only interest: collecting troll dolls which Jessica, his fiancée, had convinced herself that it was a mark of endearing eccentricity. Both his parents passed away after he went working in London Above. His life is normal, normal and boring, until the night he met Door, a bleeding girl lying on the sidewalk. He picked the girl up and took her home with her fiancée, Jessica, stood on the side walk with tears in eyes. Somewhere in his head, a voice belonged to a normal Richard was telling him how ridiculous he was being, but Richard kept placing one foot in front of the other… After that, something changed in Richard's life, or we could say everything changed.
Door was a member of one talented family in London Under. There were six members of her family: her parents, two brothers, one sister, and herself, and they were all die except Door. Her brother, Arch, was floating in the pool with two clouds of blood behind him, one from the throat and one from the groin. Door's mother, Portia, was watering plant in conservatory with her young sister, Ingress. As Portia finished with each plant, Ingress would watered it again, Portia was laughing, until Mr. Croup pulled her hair back and cut her white throat from ear to ear. Her father, Portico, was dead, and we actually don't know how was it going, but we're sure that he is also dead totally. Now, Mr. Croup and Mr. Vamdemar were hunting for Door, and this is the way Richard met Door.
Timofey FGS
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Tzu-chin Wang
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Department of Statistics
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