Neil Gaiman
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| Title | : | The Ocean at the End of the Lane |
| Author | : | Neil Gaiman |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 181 pages |
| Published | : | June 18th 2013 by William Morrow Books |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Horror. Magical Realism. Audiobook. Young Adult. Adult |
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Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy. Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what. A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.Mention Books During The Ocean at the End of the Lane
| Original Title: | The Ocean at the End of the Lane |
| ISBN: | 0062255657 (ISBN13: 9780062255655) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Lettie Hempstock, Ursula Monkton, The Nameless Boy, Ginnie Hempstock, Old Mrs. Hempstock |
| Setting: | Sussex, England(United Kingdom) |
| Literary Awards: | Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2013), Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2014), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2014), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2014), Specsavers National Book Award for Book of the Year (2013) Goodreads Choice Award for Fantasy (2013 and Nominee for Best of the Best (2018) |
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An abso-fucking-lutely amazing book!It fed my imagination to its fullest! You dont pass or fail at being a person, dear.Cannot describe this story enough for it is supposed to have no boundaries.It tells of an independent fantasy with indescribable characters that have nothing and everything to do with anything or whatsoever! Brilliantly written!5 stars, without any doubt!Everything you need to know about "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" is right there in the title. The Ocean it alludes to is deep (fathom-deep as the true meanings of family & love & death); blue (icy like the Coraline's motherspider antagonist-- the demonic Nanny McPhee in the middle of the story; cold like the rigidity of death, the panic of succumbing to childhood traumas); vast (like the leitmotifs spread out in elegant splendor along the narrative, tokens of the writer's impressive
Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.Very truly so.Penning a review for this book is hard, so is the book itself. Complex and intricately sewn together.No, I am not revealing the plot to you, dear wife. All I am saying is that this is a different work altogether. And a very, very fine one indeed.The story weaves childhood memories and nightmares, beliefs and myths into one fragment after another, until the fabric is tight enough to hold
Can a pond being an ocean? Sure! Why not? DON'T THINK IN LIMITATIONS BUT POSIBILITIES Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside. Once you can get to accept that a pond likely can be a whole ocean, you will then enjoy this wonderful book.I think that Neil Gaiman, the author, was a genius even deciding the length of the book.Sure, the initial intention was to make a short story that ended inton being a novel, but at 181 pages of length, it's most likely a novella.However,
It's kinda ridiculous how much I want to read this book. I'm seriously considering abusing my small amount of power to see if I can wangle and ARC out of somebody....
Lettie shrugged. Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside. You dont. I dont. People are much more complicated than that. Its true of everybody. This story is an amalgam of helplessness and innocent ignorance of childhood with universe-old wisdom, with mystery and wonder and unexplainable and unfathomable and things that lurk around the corners of reality and seep through the cracks in the world. There's friendship and love, and cruelty and resentment. And there are monsters
3 "think I get it...but needed more" stars !I very much liked this adult fable but not to the extent that many of my real life and Goodreads friends did.At times I was completely absorbed and mesmerized by the narrative and other times I felt that the cosmology was inconsistent, random and a tad repetitive. I intuit that I understood the esthetic that Gaiman was attempting but often to me it was a miss rather than a hit. The writing was beautiful, rich and full of complex emotion but it often
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