{"id":624,"date":"2006-11-07T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=624"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:45:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:45:44","slug":"book-log-neverwhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=624","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; NeverWhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>NeverWhere<\/i> by Neil Gaiman<\/p>\n<p>Brefly, an unremarkable London man with a mediocre life falls between the cracks of society for a while to join a quest in the magical London Below.<\/p>\n<p>Skimming his bibliography on WikiPedia, I see I have read Neil Gaiman&#8217;s <i>Good Omens<\/i>, <i>The Sandman<\/i>, <i>Don&#8217;t Panic: The Official Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy Companion<\/i>, <i>American Gods<\/i> and, I&#8217;m assuming here, some text he wrote for <i>SimCity 2000<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I originally bought <i>NeverWhere<\/i> for my brother&#8217;s birthday present back in August, but turned out he already had it.  So, I put it on my To Be Read pile, and sent him the <i>Serenity<\/i> essay book as a replacement.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve read it, but like most of his books, I end up thinking, &#8220;Well.  That was that.&#8221;  I expect that this book will have no lasting impact on my life or worldview, but it was a fine distraction for a couple hours, much like Terry Pratchett&#8217;s stuff (whom he cowrote <i>Good Omens<\/i> with).  It gave me something to read on a recent night when I couldn&#8217;t get back to sleep after Steakette had woken us up.  So, there&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n<p>Probably, I should have bought a copy of the <i>Serenity<\/i> essays for myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NeverWhere by Neil Gaiman Brefly, an unremarkable London man with a mediocre life falls between the cracks of society for a while to join a quest in the magical London Below. Skimming his bibliography on WikiPedia, I see I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=624\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3458,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/3458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}