The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Posted on 11 March 2017 by Neil Gaiman

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. New Download The Ocean at the End of the Lane [ Author ] Neil Gaiman [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Lettie shrugged Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside You don t I don t People are muchcomplicated than that It s true of everybodyThis 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 mon Lettie shrugged Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside You don t I don t People are mu...Sitting down to write a review of this book, I don t quite know where to start I was going to quote a passage that I particularly loved But no good can come of that Once I opened that door, where would I stop quoting So let me say this I genuinely loved this book I look forward to reading it again I will buy copies for my family as gifts I will listen to the audio and lament my own lack of narrative skill I will gush about it to strangers In short, it is a Neil Gaiman novel There is t Sitting down to write a review of this book, I don t quite know where to start I was going to quote a passage that I particularly loved But no good can come of that Once I opened that door, where would I stop quoting So let me say this I genuinely loved this book I look forward to reading it again I will buy copies for my family as gifts I will listen to the audio and lament my own lack of narrative skill I will gush about it to strangers In short, it is a Neil Gaiman novel There is truth here, and beauty, and joy, and a sad, sweet melancholy that moves through my chest like distant thunder I realize that what I am writing here is not really a review in any conventional sense It is a paen A panegyric It is the textual equivalent of a huge, happy, gormless grin And you know what I m fine with that Let the ... Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. This book is childhood.Are all Neil Gaiman books like this So beautifully, hauntingly nostalgic I confess, this is my first but right now I am logging intoto make sure it isn t my last I have one criticism, which is that this book isn t really an adult book The few adult scenes felt adde Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. This book is childhood.Are all Neil Gaiman books like this So beautifully, hauntingly nostalgic I confess, this is my first but right now I am logging intoto make sure it isn t my last I have one criticism, which is that this book isn t really an adult book The few adult scenes felt added as an afterthought to try and convince us little people that this is actually a very grown up kinda story But, take out that dodgy sex scene, and I would have been mesmerised and terrified by this book as a kid, perhaps eventhan I was reading it today It has everything that we could possibly ask for in childhood magic, adventure, overcoming fears, those things that children know and adults...All monsters are scared.That s why they re monsters48 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 nothiAll monsters are scared.That s why they re monsters48 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 nothing to do with sexual content or violence or gore To be an adult by age is meaningless because, to truly appreciate this book, you must be an adult by experience You must be adult enough to miss childhood.Me, I m not there yet I don t miss being a child because I remember be...3.99 on kindle US Today only 2 4 18This was a magical story both happy and dark I loved it so much And Neil Gaiman did a wonderful job of reading his own book Once a boy befriended a girl named Lettie Hempstock, her mother and grandmother and nothing was ever the same again..There are beautiful and horrible things in this world and we find these things inside this book A boy that is coming of age in a world we know nothing about and everything about It did make me sad but ...In the acknowledgments section of his latest novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman admits that the project was initially meant to be a short story, which grew to be a novel not a very long novel, but a novel nonetheless For fans it was big news, as it would be his first novel for adults since 2005 s Anansi Boys.I was never really into Gaiman s work I wasn t crazy about American Gods or Neverwhere and Coraline, all of which are routinely mentioned as fan favorites I loved Sta In the acknowledgments section of his latest novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman admits that the project was initially meant to be a short story, which grew to be a novel not a very long novel, but a novel nonetheless For fans it was big news, as it would be his first novel for adults since 2005 s Anansi Boys.I was never really into Gaiman s work I wasn t crazy about American Gods or Neverwhere and Coraline, all of which are routinely mentioned as fan favorites I loved Stardust, though his short fantasy which I thought was beautiful and had to read in one sitting The Ocean sounded like a a welcome return to the familiar field, and I was compelled to give it a try.Gaiman s narrator is an unnamed English man in his forties, who returns to his childhood home located in the English countryside of Sussex There he is drawn to familiar places which he has not seen for ages, and which evoke memories...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.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 aren t 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 what s black and white, black and white, black and white a nun r 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 Some...I remember my own childhood vividlyI knew terrible things But I knew I mustn t let adults know I knew It would scare themMaurice SendakConsidering how obsessed we are with the idea of childhood as a culture, it s pretty wild that no one can capture it quite like Neil Gaiman.https emmareadstoomuch.wordpress.coThere are a lot of movies about boring white straight male aspiring writers in their 30s being taught how to LIVE WHIMSICALLY by a manic pixie dream girl There are books abouI remember my own childhood vividlyI knew terrible things But I knew I mustn t let adults know I knew It would scare...I want to read this book so much.

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11 March 2017

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