When Neil Gaiman posted a poll asking readers to choose the book that they would recommend to someone who had never read his work, I chose Neverwhere. It is my favorite of his novels, and a book I refer back to often both for technique and just to read for pleasure. It's like comfort food for me. I try to keep an extra copy on hand to loan or give away. I must have purchased six copies of it so far, and don't regret a dime spent.

Well, now nobody has to spend a dime to read it!  Harper Collins has made it available for free.  The catch is you have 30 days to read it from the time you download it before it apparently succumbs to time-delay packetmites. But it's such a good read I'm sure you'll read it twice before that happens.

Check it out, or tell a friend. Thank you, Harper Collins!