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Marty's avatar

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.

For me it encapsulates everything Neil tries to do with his stories and all of his themes, and its just such a well crafted book. I just never want to stop turning the pages.

It is also the book I read to my dad as he was in a coma -- it was on his list of books to get to (that he never got to finish.)

--edit "to finish."

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Chuck Kallenbach's avatar

Look, the gorgeous artwork is a big help (and points for "triptych" which I couldn't spell without looking it up. You wrote a book, I want to read it. I am sent over the edge when you start Talking About Things using Capital Letters because I love that stuff.

I'm going to cheat for your favorite book question. There's a joke going around about a mother getting her 7-year-old vaccinated, and they ask what her religion is. Mom says she's seven, she doesn't have a religion. They say well, what is your religion? And she answers "Minecraft." (*chef's kiss*). I said my answer would be Marvel Comics, but after being reduced to a puddle by the last episode of Rings of Power, I would now say Tolkien. And as everybody knows, The Lord of the Rings is one book in three volumes. So I pick that one. I have read nothing better, nothing I want to read again more, and nothing else I would want to share.

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