Tuesday 22 February 2011

Teaser Tuesday #16

teasertuesdays31Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
  • Grab your current read
  • Open to a random page
  • Share two “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
  • Make sure you do not include spoilers
  • Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Teaser Tuesday #16: Neverwhere

There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads taller than Mr. Croup; second, Mr. Croup has eyes of a faded china blue, while Mr. Vandemar's eyes are brown; third, while Mr. Vandemar fashioned the rings he wears on his right hand out of the skulls of four ravens, Mr. Croup has no obvious jewelery; fourth, Mr. Croup likes words, while Mr. Vandemar is always hungry. Also, they look nothing at all alike.
 
Taken from the first chapter of the author's preferred text version of Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. First book I've read from this author, I'm enjoying his writing quite a lot.

4 comments:

Yvonne said...

Wow - that first sentence is one heck of a doozy! Love Neil Gaiman and love the teaser!!
Here's mine:
http://centralcaligrrrl.blogspot.com/2011/02/teaser-tuesday_22.html

Arlee Bird said...

I guess delineates the two characters for us. Now what will they be up to.

Lee
Tossing It Out

April said...

Great teaser!!!

Here's mine:

http://www.cafeofdreamsbookreviews.com/2011/02/teaser-tuesday_22.html

Lark Andrea said...

I love Neil Gaiman! I have not read this one yet. Thanks for a great teaser.

Reading Lark's Teaser

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