InterWorld | Neil Gaiman | Not just for kids...

InterWorld | Neil Gaiman | Great read, great story, wonderful binding

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InterWorld

	InterWorld Neil Gaiman Eos, 2007 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 20 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Joey Harker isn't a hero.

In fact, he's the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house.

But then one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension.

Joey's walk between the worlds makes him prey to two terrible forces?armies of magic and science who will do anything to harness his power to travel between dimensions.

When he sees the evil those forces are capable of, Joey makes the only possible choice: to join an army of his own, an army of versions of himself from different dimensions who all share his amazing power and who are all determined to fight to save the worlds.

Master storyteller Neil Gaiman and Emmy Award-winning science-fiction writer Michael Reaves team up to create a dazzling tale of magic, science, honor, and the destiny of one very special boy?and all the others like him.

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Not just for kids...

I wasn't aware that this was a "young adult" book until I received it. No problem, since, as always, Neil Gaiman delights with clever story-telling and memorable characters. It is, perhaps, a somewhat quicker read due to being geared toward a younger, somewhat more distractable audience, but certainly not a disappointment by any means, and I would love to see futher adventures of the young Joey in his parallel worlds.

Great read, great story, wonderful binding

For those interested in getting into Neil Gaiman's literary and artistic world, Interworld is a great first choice. I personally have been reading Neil Gaiman's stories for years, and have loved everything I've come across. When I read Interworld, I found a richly described world, with he steps in between the others short and succinct. Essentially, the descriptive words that Gaiman uses so frequently in his stories can often confuse the average reader if they're not used to reading them. However, this book is a short story, perfectly designed to be an entry into Gaiman's world, and I loved every minute of it. If you're already a Gaiman fan, this is a great book to get, and if you don't know about Gaiman, this is an even better book to get started with.

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A good read

The story is about a boy - Joey Harker - who can walk between alternate Earths, a skill shared by all the other "Joeys" (in quotations because they have different names and genders and forms). These Joeys form an army in order to keep the balance between science and magic used in the Altiverse. This book focuses on the villains who wish to use magic to dominate the Altiverse.

It is a quick read, and there are some questions that could have been delved more into. It made me wonder about what makes a person a person and how they're identifiable as the 'same' person across parallel Earths. For instance, Joey meets female versions of him, or a wolf-like one of him - is it only this ability of his to walk across worlds that make him identifiable as "a" "Joey"? What do you owe a being who has saved your life, but saving them could harm yourself and others? Expediency or honor/obligation?

One good scene in the book is where he encounters his mom and there's a discussion (brief, but still) about duty - this seems to be a somewhat overarching theme of the book, as well as friendship and trust. Joey's defense of Hue, a MDLF, depicts standing up for someone despite your friends and majority call them wicked.

At times the book is a little too simplistic, though I like the flashes of realistic emotions, such as feeling relief something happened even though it's not the happiest outcome for others involved. It's a good read when you want something not so heavy to delve into, but questions *could* be taken from it if you want to.

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Great read

The book is well written, like anything else by Neil Gaiman.
I recommend it.

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