Neil Gaiman
Hardcover | Pages: 181 pages Rating: 4 | 453052 Users | 45988 Reviews
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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.Define Books In Favor Of 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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It was a bunch of made up stuff that was not combined in a believable fashion. Normally when reading a fantasy novel, no matter how outlandish it gets, you believe in the world created by the author. I didn't believe in this world or any of the bizarre, disconnected things he was coming up with. The fact that it is basically unresolved at the end did not help much either.The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman is a fantasy in the The Graveyard Book section of his cannon, with Young Adult elements but written for adults. Like American Gods, the book explores mythos and ancient mysteries and Gaiman is in rare form with a subject matter that resounds with disconnects between our mature selves and our inner child. Gaiman approaches the supernatural in his story in much the same way as Jo Walton did in Among Others, using minimalism and a subtle shift in
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!
Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but arent. I turned 7 early in third grade. It was a memorable school year because I had for a teacher a nun with a reputation. Sister Evangelista was about 5 foot nuthin, and symmetrical. If the whats black and white, black and white, black and white a nun
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!
"All monsters are scared.That's why they're monsters." 48 hours ago, when I read the last page for the first time, I had this strange, sad feeling. Like I had come to the end of something beautiful without really comprehending the beauty of it until the last minute.Which is why it took me a re-read to realize how brilliant this book is. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is childhood in 181 pages.Short. Sweet. Magical. Scary. Real.There is a reason this book is labelled as "adult" and it has
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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