Loved itthis is a beautiful short little fantasy tale with so much magic and just so much heart to it I couldn't put this down and I just felt like it's probably the epitome of cozy fantasy
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive 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.
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- 9781472260222
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- 264 pages
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Loved itThis book has some of the most intense descriptions of characters and action sequences and dark versus light and all sorts of amazing things that we all know Neil Gaiman is amazing at. Neil Gaiman as always pulls off a very dark but wholesome vibe and this is a book that I would say is easily readable in like one sitting.
Not a fani have tried the ocean at the end of the lane i know is also very popular by him but i didn't really like that one
Loved itI can't remember the last time I finished a book was really sad about how short it was and wanted to immediately start it over but that was the case with the ocean at the end of the lane
Loved itit's just an incredibly engaging brilliantly written book like his writing is so beautiful and I knew from the moment I started listening to her that I was going to love it
Loved it"The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by Neil Gaiman. This book is just so creepy and full of meaning and very in-your-face in matter of fact in Gaiman style, where he just tells you that these weird things are without a lot of context to them and you just have to go and accept them and appreciate the story for what it is.
Loved itthis time around I fell head over heels in love with it it has now become one of my favorite books of all time it is phenomenal it is fantastic
Loved itit was really good I love Neil gaiman's writing he has a way of just creating such vivid imagery and creating intense feeling in you while you're reading the story that I absolutely love the story is creepy and Whimsical at the same time and it is beautifully told
Loved itocean at the end of the lane Neil gaming and what's it about if anyone out there in the world can actually coherently explain to people that haven't read the book what it what it's about you win you win life it's just fantasy it's just it's just a fantasy story it's unreal so obscure