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Re: various books
On 3/30/01 1:42 PM, quoth the brilliant
dasmith at rotse2_physics.lsa.umich.edu at
dasmith at rotse2_physics.lsa.umich.edu:
>
>Neverwhere: the first read left me unmoved, but then I got to see the
>original
>BBC miniseries, and that, for all its flaws (Gaiman told this really funny
>story about how he thought the Great Beast of London looked too much like a
>cow, but his producers said that with special effects people would recognize
>it. Sure enough, when the Great Beast comes lumbering around a corner,
>all you
>can think is "it's a cow". :-)), made the characters and settings come alive
>for me. The guy playing de Carabis was brilliant, and Croup and Vandermar
>were
>deliciously evil. Hunter was bad, though. Now I enjoy reading the book. Go
>figure. Usually movies ruin books. Maybe it's because the tv series came
>first in this case.
Holy hell, I DID read that! It's a SERIES??!?!?
Where can I get it? (whimper!)
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