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丕賯蹖丕賳賵爻 丕賳鬲賴丕蹖 噩丕丿賴
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May 19, 2022
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鈥檛.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鈥�, and symmetrical. If the what鈥檚 black and white, black and white, black and white 鈥� a nun rolling down a hill joke were applied to her you would have needed a lot more black-and-whites, as her spherical shape would have kept her rolling a long time. It earned her the nickname Cannonball. She was notorious, not only for her distinctive dimensions, but for having a particularly foul temper. Her starched garb also pinched her face into a state of permanent floridity and pursed her lips into a particularly fish-like shape. It was not a happy year for me at school. There would be more than one instance of raised voices, and more than one rap across the hands with yardsticks. I was even banned from the classroom for a spell, to wander the halls for hours, unaccompanied. But I somehow knew that eventually I would be a third grader no longer and would escape the sharpened claws and flapping habit of this creature. She was unpleasant, for sure, but she did not present an existential threat.
Neil on a drainpipe as a lad 鈥� from his FB page
When the unnamed narrator of Neil Gaiman鈥檚 book, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, turns 7, he has troubles of his own. It begins with zero attendance at his birthday party. The family comes on some hard times and must take in boarders. The boy is given a kitten, Fluffy, to ease the loss of his room, but the pet falls victim to a cab, arriving with a South African opal miner, the latest paying resident. Not long after, the miner takes the family car. It is found soon after, at the end of a nearby lane, with a body in the back seat, and a hose running from the tail pipe to the driver鈥檚 window. At the scene, the boy meets an eleven-year-old girl, Lettie Hempstock, who takes charge of him, and brings him to her family鈥檚 farm, which borders the lane. And so begins a beautiful friendship. (Members of the extended Hempstock family, btw, turn up in several other Gaiman books)
Lettie lives with her mother and grandmother. When strange events begin to erupt in the area--the boy鈥檚 sister is assaulted by flung coins, the boy wakes up choking on a coin, and other strangeness afflicts neighbors--Lettie seems to know what is causing them. She is sent to take care of it and brings the boy, her little friend, along. They travel across the Hempstock property and into what seems another world, (mentions of Narnia and Alice in Wonderland, among others, let us know that lines will be crossed) a place that has some threatening inhabitants. Lettie confronts the troublemaker, but the boy reacts to an event instead of thinking and disobeys her lone order, to keep hold of her hand. That is when the real trouble begins.
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The boy is far too young for this to be a coming of age tale, but a central element of horror, whether of the Freddie Krueger, Nurse Ratched (or Sister Evangelista) variety, or the flapping beast central to Gaiman鈥檚 tale, is one鈥檚 helplessness before a greater, and ill-intentioned power. Although he doesn鈥檛 characterize his intentions as horror-mongering, Gaiman has laid out what he was up to in writing the book.
It was meant to be just about looking out at the world through the kind of eyes that I had when I was 7, from the kind of landscape that I lived in when I was 7. And then it just didn't quite stop. I kept writing it, and it wasn't until I got to the end that I realized I'd actually written a novel. ... I thought 鈥� it's really not a kids' story 鈥� and one of the biggest reasons it's not a kids' story is, I feel that good kids' stories are all about hope. In the case of Ocean at the End of the Lane, it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely understand.Gaiman was aware that his work might appeal to young readers for whom is it not intended. He said that he deliberately made the first few chapters of the book dull as a way to dissuade younger readers, who would be put off by that and disinclined to continue on to the juicy bits.
The world the young boy faces may not be understandable. There is just too much to take in and Gaiman captures that element of childhood quite well.
Changes for the boy at home include the antithesis of Mary Poppins, in the form of one Ursula Monkton, who seems to have arrived on an ill wind, with the added bonus of her having designs on the boy鈥檚 father. Adults overall seem pretty careless. But there is some balance in this universe. Lettie鈥檚 family seems beyond time itself, a bright light in the darkness, welcoming, comforting, nurturing. And then there鈥檚 the ocean. Looks like a pond to you or me, but it has qualities quite unlike other bodies of water. As in his earlier American Gods, there are things that have been brought to this newer world from the place its residents once occupied. You may not be able to go home again, but what if you could take it with you? (Also a theme in American Gods)
Gaiman says he usually writes for himself. One thing that was different about this book was that he was writing for someone else. His wife, musician Amanda Palmer, was off in Australia making an album. Where you or I might send along daily, or weekly notes of what was going on, Gaiman sent something else
I will tell my wife, by making stuff up, kind of what it was like to be me when I was seven, from the inside of my head, not in the real world, then put it in the actual landscape that I grew up in.There really had been a boarder who killed himself in the family ride. Like his young hero, Gaiman climbed drainpipes. There really was a farm down the lane that had been recorded in the DomesDay Book.
And as with such enterprises he did not have a large framework constructed. It was "like driving at night through the fog" 鈥� he knew "three or five pages ahead what would happen", but no further.
There is some material here that rankled a bit. The substitute parent trope had been used to good effect in Coraline and manifests in many of the Disney animated classics, evil stepmothers in Cinderella, Snow White and the like. Ditto here. Maybe going to that well one time too many? And is dad really that dim? But there is also a nice diversity of conceptual toys at work. The flapping baddie was fun. The magical ocean and ageless Hemplocks are also very engaging. The nothingness created by the creatures referred to, among other things, as hunger birds, reminded me of Stephen King鈥檚 Langoliers, also the Nothing of the Never-Ending Story and the Dark Thing of a Wrinkle in Time. Might the three Hemplocks serve as a sort of feminine Holy Trinity? There is a wormhole that involves an actual鈥ou know鈥orm, which made me smile for a long time. And any time there is a dip into water, one must ponder things baptismal, rebirth, either literal or spiritual.
Letting go is what so much of growing up is about. It is the very thing that must be done in order to be able to grow, to live one鈥檚 own life. But sometimes letting go has the opposite effect, and can place you in peril, particularly when you are only 7 and not ready for the consequences. There is a lot in this short book on holding on, and letting go, and the price of both. There is a lot on doing what is right, on personal sacrifice, on permanence and the ephemeral, on remembering and forgetting.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a short novel. But do not let go of the notion that this is a book for adults. The ocean in question may look to be a pond, but do not be deceived. Jump in. The water鈥檚 fine, and deep.
First posted 8/19/13
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Links to the author鈥檚 , , and Tumblr pages
A wonderful article on Gaiman in the January 25, 2010 issue of
An excellent by Jian Ghomeshi of Canadian Broadcasting
I also reviewed Gaiman's
-----, briefly, a few years back
----- more fully in October 2012.
----- in March 2015
----- in June 2016
12/3/13 - The results are in and The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted the 欧宝娱乐 Choice Award winner for fantasy
12/16/13 - The Ocean... was named one of the books of 2013 by Kirkus
2/25/14 - The Ocean at the End of the Lane is nominated for a Nebula Award
April 4, 2023
Lettie shrugged. 鈥淣obody actually looks like what they really are on the inside. You don鈥檛. I don鈥檛. People are much more complicated than that. It鈥檚 true of everybody.鈥�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 - and, in the true fashion of the tradition I love, the real monsters come from the people's wishes, the people's own selves, the deep down dark that lives inside us.
鈥淢onsters 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 they aren't.鈥�
Maybe once upon a time you were seven, and bookish, and lonely, and sometimes a stranger to your own parents. Maybe your first experience with deaths brought into your world a strange family of three living just down the lane in a little farmhouse - the Maiden, the Mother and the Crone of the fairytales.
Maybe your first ever friend, eleven-year-old (or maybe infinities-old, who knows?) Lettie Hempstock, the girl for whom in your seven-year-old's sense of own immortality you nevertheless are 'perfectly willing to die' because - of course! - she is your friend, will take you on an unexpectedly sinister journey culminating somewhere and somewhen under the haunting orange sky.
And maybe after that nothing will ever be the same.
鈥淚鈥檓 going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don鈥檛 look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they鈥檙e big and thoughtless and they always know what they鈥檙e doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is, there aren鈥檛 any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.鈥�And maybe something from underneath that sinister sky will choose you as a way to break through reality into your little secure world of a child. And maybe because of that you will come to a terrifying realization that the world is not safe, that adults may not be there to protect you, that world has teeth and is ready to bite you with them any time it wants to. And you realize that nothing is as it seems - and that there's no reason why the pond cannot be Lettie Hempstock's ocean, after all.
"I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality I knew was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger. I saw the world from above and below. I saw that there were patterns and gates and paths beyond the real. I saw all these things and understood them and they filled me, just as the waters of the ocean filled me.
Everything whispered inside me. Everything spoke to everything, and I knew it all."
There are certain authors that in my mind have become a genre of their own. Neil Gaiman is one of them. When I read his books, I don't read fantasy, or urban fantasy, or any other such label. What I read is "a Gaiman" , a unique blend of humor and dry wit and a strong narrative voice making the strangest leaps of imagination seem like nothing out of ordinary.
And every time when I put down the book of his I've been reading into the wee hours of the night, unable to stop, I find myself with a haunting sense of longing and missing the world he created, the world into which he so effortlessly immerses his readers, the world of his storytelling that you never want to leave.
It's like Lettie Hempstock's ocean, the waters of which you wish you never had to leave, but where you cannot stay forever, no matter how badly you would want to.
"I found myself thinking of an ocean running beneath the whole universe, like the dark seawater that laps beneath the wooden boards of an old pier: an ocean that stretches from forever to forever and is still small enough to fit inside a bucket, if you have Old Mrs. Hempstock to help you get it in there, and you ask nicely."Neil Gaiman again is at his best, which for him is, I guess, just ordinary. This book will join my personal favorites by him - especially 'The Graveyard Book' to which it's a soul cousin.
And I will revisit it in the future, probably more than once, just to hang out with Lettie and Old Mrs. Hempstock, and maybe to catch the hint of a wave on an ancient world-ocean in the back yard.
4.5 stars.
鈥淎nd did I pass?"
The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at a being a person, dear.鈥�
August 17, 2024
An unnamed man comes back to attend a funeral in his hometown. He stops by his neighbor鈥檚 house where he ponders events that happened when he was seven years old. During his youth, he witnesses a tragedy which ignites a series of events, much like the first domino to fall in a set. His neighbor, an eleven-year-old girl, Lettie, promises to keep him safe. Will she be able to keep that promise?
This was an enchanting story that reminded me very much of childhood. In the story, Lettie talks about how her pond is the ocean. Do you remember having pure imagination as a child and nothing could talk you out of it? Did you ever wear those friendship bracelets until they fell off? Did you ever believe that if you dug a whole deep enough that you could reach the other side of the world?
The unnamed boy at one point tries to tell his father about a bad character. However, his father doesn鈥檛 want to hear it and punishes the boy. This reminded me of my childhood where an adult would come into my room, go through my things, and refold my blankets on my already made bed. I let my thoughts be known that I did not want anyone in my room or touching my things. The adults in my life decided to take me to counseling to 鈥渇ix me.鈥� However, they were in for the shock of their lives when the counselor laid into them stating that I was completely in the right, that their actions were completely inappropriate, that they needed to respect boundaries, and that I deserved a safe place in the world. I never went to counseling again, but the person never went into my room again. Sometimes adults don鈥檛 want to hear the truth. They are so focused on being right that they aren鈥檛 open to the truth, they miss what is right in front of them, and it crushes the person who was sharing the truth, being so vulnerable.
The Ocean At The End of the Lane also had a certain charm to it. Lettie promises the boy, 鈥淚鈥檒l make sure you are safe. I promise. I鈥檓 not scared.鈥� That is a really big promise especially in this age where people don鈥檛 even want to commit to attending a half-hour Zoom call. This unwavering commitment to the boy鈥檚 safety reminded me of Jay Gatsby, one of my favorite characters.
Overall, this book was breathtaking and a remarkable journey.
Another word, if I might鈥︹€�.
When reading this book, I used a technique called immersion reading. Immersion reading is where you listen to the audiobook while you are following along in a copy of the text (either a physical printed copy or a digital version of the text). Whenever possible, I practice immersion reading for a variety of reasons. However, it is expensive as it involves getting the book twice: one as an audiobook and twice as the text. While Audible has the most extensive library, it is extremely expensive. After some help from my friends on the internet, I was introduced to Everand which is $84.99 per year (or $8.99 per month), and it offers unlimited books (text) and audiobooks. Through Everand, I procured a copy of the text and listened to the audiobook. The author, Neil Gaiman, narrated the audiobook. His voice has almost a magical quality to it, and it was such a treat just listening to him read the book. What is better than reading a book? Reading a free book (or almost free book).
2025 Reading Schedule
Jan A Town Like Alice
Feb Birdsong
Mar Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Berniere
Apr War and Peace
May The Woman in White
Jun Atonement
Jul The Shadow of the Wind
Aug Jude the Obscure
Sep Ulysses
Oct Vanity Fair
Nov A Fine Balance
Dec Germinal
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This was an enchanting story that reminded me very much of childhood. In the story, Lettie talks about how her pond is the ocean. Do you remember having pure imagination as a child and nothing could talk you out of it? Did you ever wear those friendship bracelets until they fell off? Did you ever believe that if you dug a whole deep enough that you could reach the other side of the world?
The unnamed boy at one point tries to tell his father about a bad character. However, his father doesn鈥檛 want to hear it and punishes the boy. This reminded me of my childhood where an adult would come into my room, go through my things, and refold my blankets on my already made bed. I let my thoughts be known that I did not want anyone in my room or touching my things. The adults in my life decided to take me to counseling to 鈥渇ix me.鈥� However, they were in for the shock of their lives when the counselor laid into them stating that I was completely in the right, that their actions were completely inappropriate, that they needed to respect boundaries, and that I deserved a safe place in the world. I never went to counseling again, but the person never went into my room again. Sometimes adults don鈥檛 want to hear the truth. They are so focused on being right that they aren鈥檛 open to the truth, they miss what is right in front of them, and it crushes the person who was sharing the truth, being so vulnerable.
The Ocean At The End of the Lane also had a certain charm to it. Lettie promises the boy, 鈥淚鈥檒l make sure you are safe. I promise. I鈥檓 not scared.鈥� That is a really big promise especially in this age where people don鈥檛 even want to commit to attending a half-hour Zoom call. This unwavering commitment to the boy鈥檚 safety reminded me of Jay Gatsby, one of my favorite characters.
Overall, this book was breathtaking and a remarkable journey.
Another word, if I might鈥︹€�.
When reading this book, I used a technique called immersion reading. Immersion reading is where you listen to the audiobook while you are following along in a copy of the text (either a physical printed copy or a digital version of the text). Whenever possible, I practice immersion reading for a variety of reasons. However, it is expensive as it involves getting the book twice: one as an audiobook and twice as the text. While Audible has the most extensive library, it is extremely expensive. After some help from my friends on the internet, I was introduced to Everand which is $84.99 per year (or $8.99 per month), and it offers unlimited books (text) and audiobooks. Through Everand, I procured a copy of the text and listened to the audiobook. The author, Neil Gaiman, narrated the audiobook. His voice has almost a magical quality to it, and it was such a treat just listening to him read the book. What is better than reading a book? Reading a free book (or almost free book).
2025 Reading Schedule
Jan A Town Like Alice
Feb Birdsong
Mar Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Berniere
Apr War and Peace
May The Woman in White
Jun Atonement
Jul The Shadow of the Wind
Aug Jude the Obscure
Sep Ulysses
Oct Vanity Fair
Nov A Fine Balance
Dec Germinal
Connect With Me!
August 25, 2016
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 books like this? So beautifully, hauntingly nostalgic? I confess, this is my first; but right now I am logging into amazon to 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 even more than 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 no longer understand or remember, and it's all wrapped up in a tidy 180 pages.
There's an almost dreamlike quality to the story and there are many reasons it's hard to know what's real and what is not. The book opens with a middle-aged man revisiting the place where he used to live with his parents and sister when he was a young boy of seven. He visits his old house before wandering down to the farm at the end of the lane, a place that starts to bring back a strange sequence of memories as seen through the eyes of a young boy. How real are the magic and monsters of our childhood? When we look back and see ignorant youths believing in the impossible, are we enlightened adults? Or are we the ignorant ones, blinded by years dedicated to being sensible and not believing? Are the villains we remember monsters from another world? Or is that just how children make sense of the people who brought upheaval into their lives?
I found it truly fascinating.
The creepy yet beautiful setting in the English countryside was fantastic. A little lonely, somewhat isolated... like a world entirely of its own in which anything could be possible. This book held all the charm and beauty of the world portrayed in , but was ten times more compelling and addictive. And there were the characters, of course. Lettie Hempstock, an eleven year old who might just have been eleven for a very long time, and her quirky mother and grandmother. Also, the narrator had my sympathy throughout; his seven year old lack of understanding and fear of the adult world that he saw as separate from his own was easily believable, for me. I think we do create a world of our own when we're kids, one that adults aren't a part of, that's how we're able to believe in things like magic and wizards and Santa.
To put it plainly, I really enjoyed my first trip into the world of Gaiman. The ending is perfect. A little sad. But mostly perfect.
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This book is childhood.
Are all books like this? So beautifully, hauntingly nostalgic? I confess, this is my first; but right now I am logging into amazon to 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 even more than 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 no longer understand or remember, and it's all wrapped up in a tidy 180 pages.
There's an almost dreamlike quality to the story and there are many reasons it's hard to know what's real and what is not. The book opens with a middle-aged man revisiting the place where he used to live with his parents and sister when he was a young boy of seven. He visits his old house before wandering down to the farm at the end of the lane, a place that starts to bring back a strange sequence of memories as seen through the eyes of a young boy. How real are the magic and monsters of our childhood? When we look back and see ignorant youths believing in the impossible, are we enlightened adults? Or are we the ignorant ones, blinded by years dedicated to being sensible and not believing? Are the villains we remember monsters from another world? Or is that just how children make sense of the people who brought upheaval into their lives?
I found it truly fascinating.
The creepy yet beautiful setting in the English countryside was fantastic. A little lonely, somewhat isolated... like a world entirely of its own in which anything could be possible. This book held all the charm and beauty of the world portrayed in , but was ten times more compelling and addictive. And there were the characters, of course. Lettie Hempstock, an eleven year old who might just have been eleven for a very long time, and her quirky mother and grandmother. Also, the narrator had my sympathy throughout; his seven year old lack of understanding and fear of the adult world that he saw as separate from his own was easily believable, for me. I think we do create a world of our own when we're kids, one that adults aren't a part of, that's how we're able to believe in things like magic and wizards and Santa.
To put it plainly, I really enjoyed my first trip into the world of Gaiman. The ending is perfect. A little sad. But mostly perfect.
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February 21, 2021
鈥淚 went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.鈥�
This is a book that teaches us that we should never stop dreaming, that we should never stop seeing oceans in ponds and that we should never, ever, stop seeing better worlds in the things we read.
The pond that was an ocean bespeaks the level of optimism that is inherent with childhood dreams. Everything seems better. Everything seems bigger and grander. Imagination makes the ordinary seem extraordinary and fantastic. I have no idea what elements were fantasy within the novel. It could even be magical realism or a child鈥檚 interpretation and exaggeration of real life events. Part of me felt like it was based on real things but distorted and twisted to evoke the sense of unfamiliarity a child has in an adult world.
But to perpetually see the world through child eyes would be a boon:
鈥淚 do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.鈥�
It鈥檚 a book for the lost, for the social pariahs who do not fit in with normal society. It is a book for those who would rather spend their days reading than interacting with the human race. Humans are always disappointing, books are not. And our little hero knows this so he concocts his own friends and draws upon the lessons he learnt through reading. In this regard it reminded me of Coraline. It鈥檚 a book about an odd child who dreams of something a little bit better than the reality they experience.
The friend he meets becomes his guardian against the forces that would destroy him and his family. She becomes a doorway into understanding an entirely new world. In this I saw a lonely child longing for something he didn鈥檛 have, a connection with someone who would hold him up when the days become their darkest. In The Ocean at the End of Lane anything is possible as a child鈥檚 dreams and memories propel the narrative forward.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a truly fantastic book in every regard. I absolutely loved it.
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This is a book that teaches us that we should never stop dreaming, that we should never stop seeing oceans in ponds and that we should never, ever, stop seeing better worlds in the things we read.
The pond that was an ocean bespeaks the level of optimism that is inherent with childhood dreams. Everything seems better. Everything seems bigger and grander. Imagination makes the ordinary seem extraordinary and fantastic. I have no idea what elements were fantasy within the novel. It could even be magical realism or a child鈥檚 interpretation and exaggeration of real life events. Part of me felt like it was based on real things but distorted and twisted to evoke the sense of unfamiliarity a child has in an adult world.
But to perpetually see the world through child eyes would be a boon:
鈥淚 do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.鈥�
It鈥檚 a book for the lost, for the social pariahs who do not fit in with normal society. It is a book for those who would rather spend their days reading than interacting with the human race. Humans are always disappointing, books are not. And our little hero knows this so he concocts his own friends and draws upon the lessons he learnt through reading. In this regard it reminded me of Coraline. It鈥檚 a book about an odd child who dreams of something a little bit better than the reality they experience.
The friend he meets becomes his guardian against the forces that would destroy him and his family. She becomes a doorway into understanding an entirely new world. In this I saw a lonely child longing for something he didn鈥檛 have, a connection with someone who would hold him up when the days become their darkest. In The Ocean at the End of Lane anything is possible as a child鈥檚 dreams and memories propel the narrative forward.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a truly fantastic book in every regard. I absolutely loved it.
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December 23, 2013
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 professionals write their reviews. Let them get all jargony about it. Let them try to pin this book to the page, not realizing that a pinned butterfly holds no delight. A pinned butterfly is nothing like a butterfly at all.
I make no claims to impartiality in regard to Gaiman's work. Sandman changed how I thought about stories. Neverwhere was a talisman for me. Stardust is a golden bell hung in my heart. And American Gods taught me that there was a *name* for the sort of book I was struggling to write. It was a picaresque.
So if you're looking for impartiality, this is not the review for you. Look elsewhere.
Me? I will enjoy The Ocean at the End of the Lane without dissection. It made me happy. It made me feel less alone. It made me love Neil Gaiman a little more than I already did, and that's something I didn't think was possible.
Do I hope to someday write a book like this? No. I never could. He's done something odd and strange and lovely here. I couldn't hope to replicate it.
Instead, this is what I hope.
In the future, when Joss Whedon and I are best friends and hanging out together in my tree fort, I hope Neil Gaiman comes over too. Because then the three of us will all play Settlers of Catan together. And I will win, because I'm really great at Settlers of Catan. But I will also be very gracious about it, and apologize for putting the bandit on Gaiman's wheat twice in a row.
Then we will make smores, and I will toast a marshmallow with such deftness and perfection that they will be amazed and realize I am kinda cool. Then we will talk about Battlestar Galactica, and which Doctor is our favorite, and we will tell ghost stories late into the night.
God I'm tired. I should really go to sleep. I have no idea what I'm saying anymore.
I hope I don't regret this in the morning.
December 10, 2020
I really, really wanted to like this book...but like so many Gaiman novels, it fell flat. Like pancake-flat.
Maybe this one is a dud because we follow the least-interesting character in the entire book.
Honestly, I couldn't be the only one who would've preferred to get the perspectives of the witches. Or the worm-creature? Or even the spiteful cat.
Why Gaiman chose such a young, bland character to be his main, I will never know.
Sure...there's a hint of this, a dash of that but nothing really comes to fruition, only frustration.
This (in part) because our main character is so young and naive that he really can't do much. Sure he can duck away for a minor adventure but never anything longer than an afternoon.
While there's many hints given about the mystical world and it's otherworldly characteristics ... yet nothing concrete is explained. EVER.
Sometimes a little mystery is needed and sometimes, just explain it already.
Neil Gaiman always has the craziest, wildest, awesomest ideas...and 4/5 times they just absolutely fall flat to me.
It's like...I like the idea/concept better than actually reading the book.
That being said, I do enjoy how much his main character loved to read. Every time he talked about books, I was like preach!
Audiobook Comments
Despite all my whining and complaining, the one thing I cannot fault is this audiobook. Neil Gaiman read it himself and wow. Stunning audio. He could read a Walgreen receipt (heck, even a CVS/Pharmacy receipt) and I'd listen with rapt attention.
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Maybe this one is a dud because we follow the least-interesting character in the entire book.
Honestly, I couldn't be the only one who would've preferred to get the perspectives of the witches. Or the worm-creature? Or even the spiteful cat.
Why Gaiman chose such a young, bland character to be his main, I will never know.
I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation.Perhaps this one is a dud because while there were many parts that caught my attention, nothing was fleshed out enough to hold me to this book.
Sure...there's a hint of this, a dash of that but nothing really comes to fruition, only frustration.
This (in part) because our main character is so young and naive that he really can't do much. Sure he can duck away for a minor adventure but never anything longer than an afternoon.
鈥淥h, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.鈥�Possibly this one was a dud because after nearly 200 pages...nothing is explained.
While there's many hints given about the mystical world and it's otherworldly characteristics ... yet nothing concrete is explained. EVER.
Sometimes a little mystery is needed and sometimes, just explain it already.
Neil Gaiman always has the craziest, wildest, awesomest ideas...and 4/5 times they just absolutely fall flat to me.
It's like...I like the idea/concept better than actually reading the book.
That being said, I do enjoy how much his main character loved to read. Every time he talked about books, I was like preach!
鈥淚 lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.鈥�
Audiobook Comments
Despite all my whining and complaining, the one thing I cannot fault is this audiobook. Neil Gaiman read it himself and wow. Stunning audio. He could read a Walgreen receipt (heck, even a CVS/Pharmacy receipt) and I'd listen with rapt attention.
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December 23, 2023
"I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn鈥檛 let adults know I knew. It would scare them." -Maurice Sendak
Considering how obsessed we are with the idea of childhood as a culture, it鈥檚 pretty wild that no one can capture it quite like Neil Gaiman.
There 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 about the beautiful wonder of a child鈥檚 perspective. There are millions and millions and millions of TV shows depicting the dramatic trials and tribulations of the high school experience (as lived by gorgeous twenty-three year olds).
But none of it feels true. Maybe only Neil Gaiman can remember what it鈥檚 like to be a child.
It is wondrous, and beautiful, and whimsical, and even dramatic. But it鈥檚 also dark and scary sometimes. Inexplicable things happen, and the world seems uncontrollable, which is magical and horrifying. That鈥檚 childhood.
That鈥檚 also this book.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane is actually terrifying.
It鈥檚 magical, but probably not in the way typically associated with fantasy novels narrated by children. It鈥檚 magical in the way that I felt the world was when I was a child. As it turns out, that鈥檚 much more magical. And much more amazing to read about.
This book is so, so short, and so devastatingly lovely. It鈥檚 beautifully written and emotional. It made me scared and it made my heart hurt and it made me smile.
I want to quote more of it, but really I want to quote everything. Maybe I鈥檒l just excerpt ever-longer passages until I trick you into reading it?
So, better idea, just read it yourself.
Bottom line: It鈥檚 181 pages. What would it hurt to read it read it read it read it read it?
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pre-review
things this book has in common with the graveyard book:
a) by neil gaiman
b) first 5 star rating of the year
c) totally f*cking rad
review to come b
Considering how obsessed we are with the idea of childhood as a culture, it鈥檚 pretty wild that no one can capture it quite like Neil Gaiman.
There 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 about the beautiful wonder of a child鈥檚 perspective. There are millions and millions and millions of TV shows depicting the dramatic trials and tribulations of the high school experience (as lived by gorgeous twenty-three year olds).
But none of it feels true. Maybe only Neil Gaiman can remember what it鈥檚 like to be a child.
It is wondrous, and beautiful, and whimsical, and even dramatic. But it鈥檚 also dark and scary sometimes. Inexplicable things happen, and the world seems uncontrollable, which is magical and horrifying. That鈥檚 childhood.
That鈥檚 also this book.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane is actually terrifying.
It鈥檚 magical, but probably not in the way typically associated with fantasy novels narrated by children. It鈥檚 magical in the way that I felt the world was when I was a child. As it turns out, that鈥檚 much more magical. And much more amazing to read about.
This book is so, so short, and so devastatingly lovely. It鈥檚 beautifully written and emotional. It made me scared and it made my heart hurt and it made me smile.
I want to quote more of it, but really I want to quote everything. Maybe I鈥檒l just excerpt ever-longer passages until I trick you into reading it?
So, better idea, just read it yourself.
Bottom line: It鈥檚 181 pages. What would it hurt to read it read it read it read it read it?
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pre-review
things this book has in common with the graveyard book:
a) by neil gaiman
b) first 5 star rating of the year
c) totally f*cking rad
review to come b
March 7, 2016
"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 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 being a child. I can still see it when I turn back.
So right now, no. This is not my favorite Gaiman book.
But in 20-odd years, it probably will be.
Because The Ocean at the End of the Lane is one of those books.
It can only grow in appeal the older you get.
"And did I pass?"
The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk.
On my left the younger woman said,
"You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear."
March 25, 2024
(A-) 84% | Very Good
Notes: We make pilgrimage to the landmarks of our childhood, in vain, to revive somehow the magic and wonder of youth.
Notes: We make pilgrimage to the landmarks of our childhood, in vain, to revive somehow the magic and wonder of youth.
January 12, 2025
It is the first book I read by Neil Gaiman but I am sure it will not be the last. It is creepy and beautiful and hopeful and melancholic.
It is a book about the innocence and helplessness of childhood, about memories and also about so much more as it contains a lot of universal truths so beautifully written.
It is an adult story even if most of it is narrated through the eyes of a seven years old boy. I loved the definition of adults from the book:
Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.
The book is also a horror novel, with monsters, terror, pain and suffering that seems too much for a child. However, in the real world you find monsters everywhere and we need to learn how to deal with them from early age.
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. Sometime monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.
I could probably cite from this book forever but I will stop now. I recommend it to everyone that was once a child.
It is a book about the innocence and helplessness of childhood, about memories and also about so much more as it contains a lot of universal truths so beautifully written.
It is an adult story even if most of it is narrated through the eyes of a seven years old boy. I loved the definition of adults from the book:
Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.
The book is also a horror novel, with monsters, terror, pain and suffering that seems too much for a child. However, in the real world you find monsters everywhere and we need to learn how to deal with them from early age.
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. Sometime monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.
I could probably cite from this book forever but I will stop now. I recommend it to everyone that was once a child.
August 10, 2016
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 .
I was never really into Gaiman's work - I wasn't crazy about or and , all of which are routinely mentioned as fan favorites. , 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 long buried. He ends up by the house of his childhood friend, Lettie Hempstock, and remembers when he was seven years old and how Lettie used to call the pond beside her house an ocean.
Ultimately, this is a lazy book - for several reasons. The first one is an enormously flat and dull narrative voice. The narrator is obviously remembering his youth from an adult perspective, but the end effect is reduced to sentences in vein of "I did this and that" "And then this happened". There's absolutely no childish joy or fear, or even the adult's surprise at a sudden recollection of a forgotten memory of youth. The language is lackluster, flavorless and as flat as the steppes of Kazakhstan, to the point of becoming downright dull and distracting because of its dullness. How are the readers supposed to give a damn if we can barely muster the strength to turn the page?
Perhaps it's my own recent personal experience of spending a week in an English village while visiting my friends, but I thought that the setting of this book was another lost opportunity. The countryside is beautiful, but all the the reader will get from it in this book is the fact that people live on farms and sometimes have small ponds near their houses. There's no sense of place specific to Sussex or England in this book at all; it could as well have taken place in the suburbs of Chicago.
Not that long ago I , the debut novel of Jonathan Carroll, a fan favorite considered to be classic of fantasy - which I found to b a bland play on fantasy tropes without much originality, I have the same complaints about The Ocean - which really is nothing more than an overly stretched short story, employing all the well known staples of the genre and made up to resemble a short novel. The protagonist is an obvious stand-in for the author, but besides waxing nostalgia and melancholy the novel doesn't seem to have any real goal or accomplish anything in particular. It reads almost like Neil Gaiman's rushed assignment for a creative writing class he took ages ago - full of pretension of powerful statements about human beings, deep as the ocean, but in reality being little else than the well-known drizzle deep no more than an ordinary puddle, which evaporates after a few days and leaves absolutely no mark.
I was never really into Gaiman's work - I wasn't crazy about or and , all of which are routinely mentioned as fan favorites. , 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 long buried. He ends up by the house of his childhood friend, Lettie Hempstock, and remembers when he was seven years old and how Lettie used to call the pond beside her house an ocean.
Ultimately, this is a lazy book - for several reasons. The first one is an enormously flat and dull narrative voice. The narrator is obviously remembering his youth from an adult perspective, but the end effect is reduced to sentences in vein of "I did this and that" "And then this happened". There's absolutely no childish joy or fear, or even the adult's surprise at a sudden recollection of a forgotten memory of youth. The language is lackluster, flavorless and as flat as the steppes of Kazakhstan, to the point of becoming downright dull and distracting because of its dullness. How are the readers supposed to give a damn if we can barely muster the strength to turn the page?
Perhaps it's my own recent personal experience of spending a week in an English village while visiting my friends, but I thought that the setting of this book was another lost opportunity. The countryside is beautiful, but all the the reader will get from it in this book is the fact that people live on farms and sometimes have small ponds near their houses. There's no sense of place specific to Sussex or England in this book at all; it could as well have taken place in the suburbs of Chicago.
Not that long ago I , the debut novel of Jonathan Carroll, a fan favorite considered to be classic of fantasy - which I found to b a bland play on fantasy tropes without much originality, I have the same complaints about The Ocean - which really is nothing more than an overly stretched short story, employing all the well known staples of the genre and made up to resemble a short novel. The protagonist is an obvious stand-in for the author, but besides waxing nostalgia and melancholy the novel doesn't seem to have any real goal or accomplish anything in particular. It reads almost like Neil Gaiman's rushed assignment for a creative writing class he took ages ago - full of pretension of powerful statements about human beings, deep as the ocean, but in reality being little else than the well-known drizzle deep no more than an ordinary puddle, which evaporates after a few days and leaves absolutely no mark.
February 4, 2018
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This 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 鉂わ笍
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 you have to read the book to understand it. I'm going to be adding this to my collection as I got this audio from the library Overdrive. I highly recommend it!
I'm glad I still haven't grown up!
Mel 鉂わ笍
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This 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 鉂わ笍
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 you have to read the book to understand it. I'm going to be adding this to my collection as I got this audio from the library Overdrive. I highly recommend it!
Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, and find the spaces between fences.
I'm glad I still haven't grown up!
Mel 鉂わ笍
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January 28, 2013
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....
I'm seriously considering abusing my small amount of power to see if I can wangle and ARC out of somebody....
October 19, 2024
5/5 猸�
Wow.
I don't even know what could I say more about this book than wow.
I have very little experience with Gaiman's books - I only read Coraline but loved it all the same.
There was a certain cosiness to the story.
Even though some really terrifying, nightmarish creatures were lurking around throughout the pages of the book, the general feeling I got from the whole story was exactly the same feeling a fluffy blanket and a steaming cup of tea give you.
I do believe that this was all because of the amazing narrative voice. It is obvious that Gaiman is a natural storyteller.
I loved the careful importance the writer gave to the books and the action of reading. The main character is a little lonely boy who loves his books and loves knowledge. Sad, if you think about it, but beautiful in its own way.
The fascination for mythology and folklore is craftily exposed here - some aspects are educational, some are hidden and only at some point visible through the whole turmoil of words and thoughts.
Look for small hints, it says.
Sometimes, things get deeper, like the ocean.
The beautiful manner of speech presented in this book hides some philosophical ideas behind it, some as old as time that leave you thinking a bit on them.
Sometimes, it feels like an introspection.
The title itself blends perfectly with the theme of the story and with the hidden, philosophical metaphors.
There was an ocean at the end of the lane, disguised in a simple, mundane pond. But that water held the secrets of the world between its shores. That water held all the pain in the world and no pain at all. It held everything.
And it was an ocean only in the eye of the beholder.
I honestly believe that was such an artistically pleasing, cosy and warm story to read. I loved every page of it!
"Can't drink the water from the sea, can you? Too salty. Like drinking life's blood."
Wow.
I don't even know what could I say more about this book than wow.
I have very little experience with Gaiman's books - I only read Coraline but loved it all the same.
There was a certain cosiness to the story.
Even though some really terrifying, nightmarish creatures were lurking around throughout the pages of the book, the general feeling I got from the whole story was exactly the same feeling a fluffy blanket and a steaming cup of tea give you.
I do believe that this was all because of the amazing narrative voice. It is obvious that Gaiman is a natural storyteller.
"I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway."
I loved the careful importance the writer gave to the books and the action of reading. The main character is a little lonely boy who loves his books and loves knowledge. Sad, if you think about it, but beautiful in its own way.
The fascination for mythology and folklore is craftily exposed here - some aspects are educational, some are hidden and only at some point visible through the whole turmoil of words and thoughts.
Look for small hints, it says.
Sometimes, things get deeper, like the ocean.
The beautiful manner of speech presented in this book hides some philosophical ideas behind it, some as old as time that leave you thinking a bit on them.
Sometimes, it feels like an introspection.
"If I looked inward I would see only infinite mirrors, staring into myself for eternity."
The title itself blends perfectly with the theme of the story and with the hidden, philosophical metaphors.
There was an ocean at the end of the lane, disguised in a simple, mundane pond. But that water held the secrets of the world between its shores. That water held all the pain in the world and no pain at all. It held everything.
And it was an ocean only in the eye of the beholder.
I honestly believe that was such an artistically pleasing, cosy and warm story to read. I loved every page of it!
July 4, 2019
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman is a fantasy in the section of his cannon, with Young Adult elements but written for adults.
Like , 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 , using minimalism and a subtle shift in perspective.
In many respects, Gaiman has become a fantasy writer in the tradition of Ray Bradbury. This was a very good read.
Like , 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 , using minimalism and a subtle shift in perspective.
In many respects, Gaiman has become a fantasy writer in the tradition of Ray Bradbury. This was a very good read.
April 16, 2014
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.
November 4, 2017
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賰賱 賴匕丕 賯丿 賷鬲噩賲毓 賮賷 毓丕賱賲 賵丕丨丿..毓賯賱 丕賱兀胤賮丕賱貙 亘丕锘坟� 賴丐賱丕亍 匕賵賷 丕賱禺賷丕賱
胤賮賱 賵賰鬲丕亘 賵賯胤丞 氐睾賷乇丞貙 胤毓賲 丕賱禺亘夭 丕锘坟迟呚� 賵鬲賵爻鬲 兀亘賷囟 亘賱丕 胤毓賲貙 丕賱賲乇亘賷 丕賱亘賷鬲賷 亘丕賱賯胤毓 賵 賰賵亘 賱亘賳 '賲丨賱賵亘' 賱鬲賵賴
丕賱賯賲乇 毓賳丿賲丕 賷賰賵賳 亘丿乇丕 賰亘賷乇丕 賲氐賮乇 丕賱賱賵賳貙 賮賰乇 賯賱賷賱丕 賵賯賱 賱賷 亘氐乇丕丨丞...賲鬲賷 兀禺乇 賲乇丞 賳馗乇鬲 賮賷賴丕 廿賱賷 丕賱賯賲乇責
噩賵 丕賱乇賷賮貙 亘丨賷乇丞 丕賱亘胤 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 賰賳丕 賳乇丕賴丕 賲丨賷胤丕...丕賱賲丨賷胤 丕賱匕賷 亘兀禺乇 丕賱丨丕乇丞
兀禺賷乇丕 氐乇鬲 賵賵丕賱丿賷 兀氐丿賯丕亍 亘亘賱賵睾賷 丕賱毓卮乇賷賳丕鬲. 賰丕賳 亘賷賳賳丕 丕賱賯賱賷賱 噩丿丕 賲賳 丕賱廿賴鬲賲丕賲丕鬲 丕賱賲卮鬲乇賰丞 毓賳丿賲丕 賰賳鬲 氐亘賷丕貙 賵兀賳丕 賲鬲兀賰丿 廿賳賳賷 賰賳鬲 禺賷亘丞 兀賲賱 賱賴貙 賴賵 賱賲 賷鬲賲賳賷 廿亘賳丕 亘賰鬲丕亘 貙 賲賳毓夭賱 賱毓丕賱賲賴 丕賱禺丕氐..賴賵 兀乇丕丿 廿亘賳丕 賷賮毓賱 賲丕 賮毓賱賴: 賷賲丕乇爻 丕賱爻亘丕丨丞貙 丕賱賲賱丕賰賲丞貙 丕賱乇噩亘賷貙 賵賷賯賵丿 丕賱爻賷丕乇丕鬲 亘廿賳胤賱丕賯 賵廿爻鬲賲鬲丕毓 貙 賱賰賳 賱賲 賷賰賳 賴匕丕 賲丕 兀賳鬲賴賷 亘賴 丕賱丨丕賱
** 丕賱兀丨賭賭賭丿丕孬 **
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賴賷 賯氐丞 賴匕丕 丕賱氐亘賷 .. 亘賱丕 丕爻賲 .. 賳賴賲 賱賱賯乇丕亍丞 毓丕卮賯 賱賱賰鬲亘.. 賮賷 丕賱爻丕亘毓丞
毓賮賵丕 , 氐亘賷 賮賷 丕賱兀乇亘毓賷賳丕鬲 賲賳 毓賲乇賴, 賮賯丿 毓夭賷夭 毓賳丿賴 賵賯丕丿鬲賴 賯丿賲賴 亘毓丿 丕賱噩賳丕夭丞 賱賲賰丕賳 胤賮賵賱鬲賴 ..丕賱賲賳胤賯丞 丕賱鬲賷 賰丕賳鬲 乇賷賮賷丞 賮賷 丕賵丕禺乇 丕賱爻鬲賷賳丕鬲..乇亘賲丕 鬲睾賷乇 賲賰丕賳 亘賷鬲賴..賵賱賰賳 亘賷鬲 丕賱賲夭乇毓丞 丕賱鬲賷 賮賷 兀禺乇 丕賱卮丕乇毓 馗賱 賰賲丕 賴賵
賵毓賳丿 丕賱亘丨賷乇丞, 毓賮賵丕, 丕賱賲丨賷胤 丕賱匕賷 賮賷 兀禺乇 丕賱丨丕乇丞 噩賱爻 賱賷鬲匕賰乇
賮賷 毓賷丿 賲賷賱丕丿賴 丕賱爻丕亘毓 賱賲 賷丨囟乇 兀賷 兀丨丿 賲賳 夭賲賱丕亍賴 丕賱匕賷賳 丕乇爻賱鬲 賱賴賲 丕賱丿毓賵丞
賱賲 賷丨囟乇 毓賷丿 賲賷賱丕丿賴 爻賵賷 兀禺鬲賴 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞 賵氐丿賷賯鬲賷賴丕
賴丿賷鬲賴 丕賱兀賮囟賱 賷賵賲賴丕 賰丕賳鬲 賲賳 兀亘賷賴 "賯胤賴 爻賵丿丕亍 賲夭睾亘丞" 賱賰賳賴丕 毓賵囟丕 毓賳 鬲兀噩賷乇 睾乇賮鬲賴 賱毓丕賲賱 賲賳噩賲 賱囟丕卅賯丞 賲丕賱賷丞 鬲禺氐 兀爻乇鬲賴
毓丕賲賱 丕賱賲賳噩賲 丕賱兀賮乇賵兀賲乇賷賰賷 賷氐丿賲 賯胤鬲賴 賷賵賲 賵氐賵賱賴 亘爻賷丕乇丞 丕賱兀噩乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 丕賯賱鬲賴
賴賱 賷賲賰賳 丕賳 賷爻賵亍 丕賱丨丕賱 賱賱氐亘賷 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 賴匕丕責
賮賷 丕賱賷賵賲 丕賱鬲丕賱賷 賷毓孬乇 丕賱噩賷乇丕賳 亘丕賱賲夭乇毓丞 賮賷 兀禺乇 丕賱丨丕乇丞 毓賱賷 爻賷丕乇丞 丕賱兀爻乇丞, 賵亘賴丕 噩孬丞 毓丕賲賱 丕賱賲賳噩賲 ..賲賳鬲丨乇丕..賵賴賳丕 鬲亘丿兀 丕賱賯氐丞
丨賷孬 賷鬲毓乇賮 丕賱氐亘賷 毓賱賷 兀賴賱 亘賷鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱賲夭乇毓丞 ,毓丕卅賱丞 賴丕賲亘爻鬲賵賰, 丕賱噩丿丞..丕賱兀賲 噩賷賳賷 .. 賵丕賱兀亘賳丞 賱賷鬲賷
賵兀禺賷乇丕 爻賷氐賷乇 賱賴 氐丿賷賯丞 , 賵廿賳 賰丕賳鬲 兀賰亘乇 賲賳賴 馗丕賴乇賷丕 亘爻賳鬲賷賳 ..賵賱賰賳 賲毓丕 爻賷賯丕亘賱丕 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賲睾丕賲乇丕鬲
賲賳 賰賷丕賳 毓噩賷亘 賷丨丕賵賱 鬲丨賯賷賯 兀丨賱丕賲 兀賴賱 丕賱賲夭丕乇毓 亘丕賱賲賳胤賯丞 ..賵賱賰賳 賴匕丕 丕賱兀賲乇 賷鬲丨賵賱 廿賱賷 賰丕亘賵爻
賱賲乇亘賷丞 睾乇賷亘丞 丕賱兀胤賵丕乇 賱賱氐亘賷 賵兀禺鬲賴 鬲毓賷卮 賲毓賴賲 賮賷 丨噩乇鬲賴 丕賱爻丕亘賯丞..鬲賯賷賲 毓賱丕賯丞 賲乇賷亘丞 賲毓 兀亘賷賴
毓賱丕賯鬲賴 賲毓 兀亘賷賴 鬲鬲毓賯丿 賵鬲夭丿丕丿 毓丿丕賵丞 賲毓 鬲睾賷乇丕鬲 賮賷 爻賱賵賰賷丕鬲 兀亘賷賴 賲賳匕 賵氐賱鬲 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲乇亘賷丞 丕賱毓噩賷亘丞
孬賯亘 毓噩賷亘 亘丕賱噩爻賲 賵亘賵丕亘丞 鬲賳賯賱賰 廿賱賷 毓丕賱賲 兀禺乇..賰賷丕賳丕鬲 毓噩賷亘丞 鬲丨賯賯 丕賱兀賲丕賳賷 賵馗賱丕賱 爻賵丿丕亍 賲毓鬲賲丞 鬲丨丕賵賱 丕賱賯囟丕亍 毓賱賷賴丕..廿賷賵賳丕鬲 賵亘乇賵鬲賵賳丕鬲..兀氐賱 丕賱賰賵賳 賵丕賱賲賰丕賳 賵丕賱夭賲丕賳
賰賱 賴匕丕
賮賷 亘丨賷乇丞 丕賱亘胤 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 賮.. 毓賮賵丕.. 賮賷 丕賱賲丨賷胤 丕賱匕賷 賮賷 兀禺乇 丕賱丨丕乇丞
賴賱 賴賷 賲噩乇丿 賲睾丕賲乇丕鬲 胤賮賵賱賷丞 賷鬲匕賰乇賴丕 毓賯賱 乇噩賱 賳丕囟噩 賵賷氐丕丨亘賴丕 賲卮丕毓乇 丕賱丨賳賷賳 丕賱賷 丕賱賲丕囟賷 , 丕賱賳賵爻鬲丕賱賷噩丕責
兀賲 賴賷 賴乇賵亘 賲賳 賵丕賯毓 亘賴 亘毓囟 賲賳 丕賱賲卮丕賰賱 丕賱毓丕卅賱賷丞 丕賱賲毓鬲丕丿丞責
賴賱 賰賱 賴匕丕 丕賱乇毓亘 丨丿孬 丨賯丕 貙 賲丕 賰賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賲賵夭 丕賱賲乇毓亘丞貙 丕賱毓賱賲賷丞 兀賵 丨鬲賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賲賵夭 丕賱鬲賷 兀賰丕丿 兀賳 兀噩夭賲 兀賳賴丕 鬲亘丿賵 丿賷賳賷丞
賰賱 賲丕 兀賳丕 賲鬲兀賰丿 賲賳賴 賴賵 兀賳 賰賱 賴匕丕 賷爻鬲毓賷亘賴 氐亘賷 賮賷 丕賱爻丕亘毓丞..賵氐毓亘 毓賱賷 毓賯賵賱賳丕 賰賱賲丕 賲乇 亘賳丕 丕賱毓賲乇
乇亘賲丕 賰亘乇賳丕 賰孬賷乇丕 賱匕丕 賱賲 賳丿乇賰 賲丕 丕賱賮丕氐賱 亘賷賳 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 賵丕賱禺賷丕賱
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丕賱兀爻賱賵亘
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亘爻賷胤..爻賱爻 賵爻賴賱 , 胤賮賵賱賷 卮賷卅丕 賲丕 亘賲丕 賷賳丕爻亘 胤賮賱丕 賮賷 丕賱爻丕亘毓丞
賵毓賲賷賯丕 丕丨賷丕賳丕 , 賱賷爻 亘鬲氐賳毓 丕賵 亘賲亘丕賱睾丞 賵廿賳賲丕 亘卮賰賱 賲賱丕卅賲 賱毓賯賱 胤賮賱
兀賵 丕賱亘丕賱睾 丕賱匕賷 賷鬲匕賰乇 毓賳丿賲丕 賰丕賳 氐亘賷丕
卮胤丨丕鬲 丕賱禺賷丕賱 丕賱毓賱賲賷 賵卮卅 賲賳 丕賱乇毓亘 賲毓 丕賱賯氐丞 丕賱丿乇丕賲賷丞 賲賲夭賵噩丞 亘賳賵爻鬲丕賱賷噩丕 賵丨賳賷賳 賱賲丕囟 噩賲賷賱 丨賷賳 賰丕賳 賱賱兀卮賷丕亍 胤毓賲丕 丕禺乇 賰丕賳 噩匕丕亘丕
賵毓賳丿 乇亘胤賴 亘亘丿丕賷丞 丕賱賯氐丞...丕賱氐亘賷 丕賱匕賷 賮賷 丕賱兀乇亘毓賷賳丕鬲..賮賷 賲賳鬲氐賮 丕賱毓賲乇.. 爻鬲卮毓乇 賮毓賱丕 亘丨賳賷賳
賱丕 賲胤 賵賱丕 鬲胤賵賷賱 亘丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 .. 賴賷 賯氐丞 胤賵賷賱丞 , "賳賵賮賷賱賱丕" 賰賲丕 賷賯賵賱賵賳 賵賱賷爻鬲 乇賵丕賷丞 賰亘賷乇丞.. 兀賲丕 毓賳 賳賵毓賴丕 賵鬲氐賳賷賮賴丕..賮賰賲丕 爻兀賱鬲 賮賷 丕賱亘丿丕賷丞..賵賱賲 兀噩丿 噩賵丕亘丕
Fairy Tales 賮賯丿 賰丕賳鬲 賰丕賱賯氐氐 丕賱禺賷丕賱賷丞
丨賷孬 噩賳賷丞 鬲丨丕賵賱 賲賳丨 丕賱賳丕爻 賲丕 賷丨賱賲賵賳 亘賴..賵賲夭乇毓丞 賷胤賱 毓賱賷賴丕 丕賱賯賲乇 賮賷 賰賱 賱賷賱丞 亘丿乇丕 賲賳賷乇丕
賵賰丕賳鬲 賰賯氐氐 丕賱禺賷丕賱 丕賱賲乇毓亘丞 毓賳丿賲丕 噩丕卅鬲 鬲賱賰 丕賱馗賱丕賱 丕賱乇賴賷亘丞 丕賱鬲賷 賲賳 丕賱賲賮鬲乇囟 兀賳賴丕 鬲毓賷丿 鬲賵丕夭賳 丕賱丨賷丕丞.. 賵毓賳丿賲丕 鬲丨賵賱鬲 丕賱噩賳賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲丨賯賯 丕賱兀丨賱丕賲 廿賱賷 賵丨卮丕
賵賰丕賳鬲 亘賴丕 丕賱禺賷丕賱 丕賱毓賱賲賷 賰丨賯賷賯丞 丕賱夭賲丕賳 賵丕賱賲賰丕賳 賵鬲禺胤賷賴賲丕 , 賵丕賱兀亘毓丕丿 丕賱賲禺鬲賱賮丞..賵毓賯賱賷丞 丕賱兀胤賮丕賱
賵賰丕賳鬲 賰賯氐氐 丕賱爻丨乇 , 賮兀賰丕丿 兀賳 兀噩夭賲 兀賳賷 兀鬲匕賰乇 匕賰乇 噩匕賵乇 賳亘丕鬲 "丕賱賲丕賳丿乇賷賰" 亘丕賱乇賵丕賷丞..賰鬲賱賰 丕賱鬲賷 馗賴乇鬲 亘賴丕乇賷 亘賵鬲乇
賰丕賳鬲 賰丕賱賯氐氐 丕賱丿賷賳賷丞...賮卮毓乇鬲 亘卮卅 賲賳 丕賱鬲卮亘賷賴丕鬲 丨賵賱 丕賱鬲毓賲賷丿 賵丕賱孬丕賱賵孬 丕賱賲賯丿爻 丕丨賷丕賳丕
賵丕賱兀賴賲 賰丕賳鬲 丿乇丕賲丕 兀噩鬲賲丕毓賷丞 馗丕賴乇丞 賮賷 丨賷丕丞 丕賱氐亘賷 丕賱匕賷 亘賱丕 兀氐丿賯丕亍 丨賯賷賯賷賳..賵兀爻乇賴 鬲毓丕賳賷 賲卮丕賰賱 賲丕丿賷丞
賵丨賷丕鬲賴 毓賳丿賲丕 氐丕乇 乇噩賱丕 賲胤賱賯丕 賮賯丿 毓夭賷夭丕 賱丿賷賴
丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲
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兀賳鬲 賱丕 鬲賳噩丨 兀賵 鬲賮卮賱 賮賷 賰賵賳賰 卮禺氐丕 賷丕 毓夭賷夭賷
賴賰匕丕 賯丕賱鬲 丕賱噩丿丞 賱賱氐亘賷...賲鬲賷 賵兀賷賳 , 賱賳 兀丨乇賯 賱賰 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬
賱賰賳 亘賵氐賵賱賰 賱賴匕丕 丕賱噩夭亍 爻鬲卮毓乇 賮毓賱丕 兀賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱賯氐丞 賮毓賱丕 兀孬乇鬲 亘賰
賵乇亘賲丕 賴賳丕 鬲兀賰丿 兀賳 賴賳丕賰 亘賴丕 賲賱賲丨 丿賷賳賷
兀賵 乇亘賲丕 毓賳 丕賱丨賷丕丞
丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 亘爻賷胤丞 賵睾賷乇 賲鬲賰賱賮丞 , 卮禺氐賷丕鬲 毓丕卅賱丞 賴賷賲爻鬲賵賰 鬲毓鬲亘乇 毓噩賷亘丞 賵賰賲丕 匕賰乇鬲 賵賷賰丕亘賷丿賷丕 兀賳 賱賴賲 馗賴賵乇 賮賷 乇賵丕賷丕鬲 兀禺乇賷 賱賱賲丐賱賮
賵賷毓鬲亘乇 賴賳丕賰 賱賲丨丕鬲 賲賳 卮禺氐賷丞 丕賱賲丐賱賮 亘丕賱氐亘賷 丕賵 乇亘賲丕 賮賯胤 亘毓囟 丕賱丨賵丕丿孬 丕賱賲鬲毓賱賯丞 亘胤賮賵賱鬲賴 禺丕氐丕 丕賳 丕賱氐賵乇丞 亘丕賱睾賱丕賮 丕賱禺賱賮賷 "丕賱賮鬲賷 毓賱賷 丕賮乇賷夭 丕賱丿賵乇 丕賱兀賵賱 亘丕賱賲賳夭賱" 賴賷 氐賵乇丞 丨賯賷賯賷丞 賱賱賲丐賱賮 賮賷 氐亘丕賴
毓丕賲丕 賯丿 鬲卮毓乇 賲孬賱賷 亘鬲卮丕亘賴 亘賷賳 丕賱亘胤賱 賵亘賷賳賰 卮禺氐賷丕
禺丕氐丕 毓賳丿賲丕 賷丨賰賷 賱賰 毓賳 丕賱胤賮賵賱丞
毓賳 夭賲賱丕亍 丕賱丿乇丕爻丞 丕賱匕賷賳 賱丕 賳乇丕賴賲 睾賷乇 賮賷 丕賱丿乇丕爻丞
毓賳 丕賱兀禺鬲 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞 賵丕賱毓賳丕丿 , 毓賳 丕賱兀亘 賵丨賳賷鬲賴 賵鬲睾賷乇賴 賮賷 丨丕賱丞 丕賱兀夭賲丕鬲 丕賱毓丕卅賱賷丞
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賱鬲睾賵氐 賲毓賴 賮賷 丕賱亘丨賷乇丞
毓賮賵丕
賮賷 丕賱賲丨賷胤
丕賱賲丨賷胤 丕賱匕賷 亘兀禺乇 丕賱丨丕乇丞
賲丨賲丿 丕賱毓乇亘賷
賲賳 12 賷賵賳賷賵 2015
廿賱賷 14 賷賵賳賷賵 2015
賵賯乇丕亍丞 孬丕賳賷丞 賮賷 18 賷賵賳賷賵 2015
丕賱乇賷賮賷賵 鬲賲 賮賷 24 賷賵賳賷賵 2015
August 19, 2022
鈥淢onsters 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 they aren't.鈥�
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.
I adored this novel. Childhood is such a magical thing we're all bound to, and it is a wonder to look at it with adult eves. This is what the book is about: living, observing, creating memories that will inevitably become blurred bits. Being afraid, too. The narrative in the novel is beautiful and effortless. As I read, I felt a warm nostalgic feeling. This is a book you just open and dive in, straight into Lettie's ocean. Be prepared to discover the extraordinary.
There are fairytale vibes mixed with a little bit of uneasy horror. It reads like a weird fever dream that has you question the monsters you feared as a child.
This was my first Neil Gaiman. I am very excited to read more of his works.
Highly Recommend.
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.
I adored this novel. Childhood is such a magical thing we're all bound to, and it is a wonder to look at it with adult eves. This is what the book is about: living, observing, creating memories that will inevitably become blurred bits. Being afraid, too. The narrative in the novel is beautiful and effortless. As I read, I felt a warm nostalgic feeling. This is a book you just open and dive in, straight into Lettie's ocean. Be prepared to discover the extraordinary.
There are fairytale vibes mixed with a little bit of uneasy horror. It reads like a weird fever dream that has you question the monsters you feared as a child.
This was my first Neil Gaiman. I am very excited to read more of his works.
Highly Recommend.
December 26, 2024
(A-) 84% | Very Good
Notes: On memories lost, desires and cost, juvenile ordeals, adult concerns that children discern, women who hurt and heal.
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Notes: On memories lost, desires and cost, juvenile ordeals, adult concerns that children discern, women who hurt and heal.
*Check out progress updates for detailed commentary:
March 23, 2025
I've always had a great interest in fantastical and strange things since I was young. Movies like Harry Potter, Lord of The Rings, and Pirates of the Caribbean are my all-time fav. Although growing up made me realize these tales might only exist in films or novels, in today's monotonous and routine-driven reality, imagining myself as Professor Dumbledore to relax my tense nerves is undoubtedly a great choice.
Neil Gaiman is, in my opinion, absolutely a representative author of new-generation fantasy literature. He has made remarkable contributions not only in fairy tales, fantasy, sci-fi, and children's novels but also through his extraordinary imagination. One of his masterpieces, The Graveyard Book, is a marvel, and this fairy tale novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, further showcases his boundless creativity.
Gaiman鈥檚 fairy tales always carry a dark, adult perspective. This novel is no exception. I think its cover beautifully captures the novel鈥檚 theme - we often believe childhood is bright and innocent, yet deep within the forgotten memories, there are childhood shadows we want to forget.
Spoiler Alert!
The novel is written in the first person. The "I" is a sensitive and introverted 7-year-old boy who loves reading in his favorite corners. He lives in a 3-story house with a large, poorly maintained garden. Despite his parents鈥� financial problems, he lives a peaceful and serene life surrounded by love.
Until 1 day, this peaceful life is disrupted by an miner. The miner's car runs over his kitten, and a few days later, the miner himself dies in his father's car. In a series of unexpected events, the boy meet the Hempstock family and Lettie, who is very kind to him. Then he started to witness unforgettable scenes and experience nightmares he never want to recall...
The novel features many imaginative fantastical elements. For example, a shimmering silver worm turns out to be an interdimensional portal, and ragged fearsome creatures remind me of Dementors from Harry Potter. All his neighbors turn out to be witches with supernatural abilities鈥�
These are all elements I love. When telling stories to kids, we often wish we had magic too so we could fight our "mother witch" together. But this book is clearly not a children's fairy tale; it's actually a magical realism intended for adults.
The 7-year-old boy might not understand why he feels fear at the first sight of the new nanny. As an adult reader, I immediately realized that the nanny represents a homewrecker. The boy鈥檚 negative emotions toward the nanny stem from the fear of family disruption. His open defiance to the nanny is violently subdued by his father, so he can only place his hopes in the seemingly omnipotent Lettie - a little girl with mysterious powers. After an earth-shattering confrontation that even affects the stars and seas, the dangerous nanny finally disappears. To a child, home is his entire universe, and family destruction feels like universal annihilation. Even after this storm passes, the psychological damage remains long-lasting.
When the grown-up "I" return to his hometown, he revisits the pond where he had adventures with Lettie to reflect on his childhood. Strangely, these supposedly resolved memories still stir his emotions, leaving an indelible mark of pain.
These pains are the dark sides of childhood that he doesn鈥檛 want to recall. Over 40 years have passed, his memories have been wandering in a state of chaos and ambiguity. He clearly remembers that it was Lettie who saved him and was seriously injured, and then she was put into the pond (ocean) by her mother and drifted away. But Lettie's mother said that Lettie did not die, and that everything in the universe changes according to predetermined rules. There is no unchanging world.
The ocean world built by Gaiman is really fastinating. Combining elements like guarding, punishment, constant change, and life in a book is even tougher. The key is how to tell a good story, and clearly, The Ocean at the End of the Lane has done it.
Childhood is not as innocent and beautiful as one might think. It magnifies society, hiding unknown dangers and traps that require courage to face. Every adult carry parts of their child selves - those weaknesses and uncertainties still reside deep within, not disappearing with physical maturity.
In the end, Gaiman doesn't provide a perfect conclusion. Whenever facing setbacks, without even realizing it, "I" return to "Lettie鈥檚 ocean" to confide in her. This "Lettie's ocean" is his 鈥渙cean of forgetting," where fears, anxieties, and sorrows are submerged. These emotions, seen by children as not belonging to adults, have always existed deep in everyone's soul. They are our most genuine and pure emotions.
There are no so-called adults, only children striving to grow.
5 / 5 stars
Edited on 11th Feb, 2025. Re-loving this novel for the 3rd time.
My other reviews of Gaiman's Work:
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Graveyard Book
Coraline
Neverwhere
American Gods
Stardust
Neil Gaiman is, in my opinion, absolutely a representative author of new-generation fantasy literature. He has made remarkable contributions not only in fairy tales, fantasy, sci-fi, and children's novels but also through his extraordinary imagination. One of his masterpieces, The Graveyard Book, is a marvel, and this fairy tale novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, further showcases his boundless creativity.
Gaiman鈥檚 fairy tales always carry a dark, adult perspective. This novel is no exception. I think its cover beautifully captures the novel鈥檚 theme - we often believe childhood is bright and innocent, yet deep within the forgotten memories, there are childhood shadows we want to forget.
Spoiler Alert!
The novel is written in the first person. The "I" is a sensitive and introverted 7-year-old boy who loves reading in his favorite corners. He lives in a 3-story house with a large, poorly maintained garden. Despite his parents鈥� financial problems, he lives a peaceful and serene life surrounded by love.
Until 1 day, this peaceful life is disrupted by an miner. The miner's car runs over his kitten, and a few days later, the miner himself dies in his father's car. In a series of unexpected events, the boy meet the Hempstock family and Lettie, who is very kind to him. Then he started to witness unforgettable scenes and experience nightmares he never want to recall...
The novel features many imaginative fantastical elements. For example, a shimmering silver worm turns out to be an interdimensional portal, and ragged fearsome creatures remind me of Dementors from Harry Potter. All his neighbors turn out to be witches with supernatural abilities鈥�
These are all elements I love. When telling stories to kids, we often wish we had magic too so we could fight our "mother witch" together. But this book is clearly not a children's fairy tale; it's actually a magical realism intended for adults.
The 7-year-old boy might not understand why he feels fear at the first sight of the new nanny. As an adult reader, I immediately realized that the nanny represents a homewrecker. The boy鈥檚 negative emotions toward the nanny stem from the fear of family disruption. His open defiance to the nanny is violently subdued by his father, so he can only place his hopes in the seemingly omnipotent Lettie - a little girl with mysterious powers. After an earth-shattering confrontation that even affects the stars and seas, the dangerous nanny finally disappears. To a child, home is his entire universe, and family destruction feels like universal annihilation. Even after this storm passes, the psychological damage remains long-lasting.
When the grown-up "I" return to his hometown, he revisits the pond where he had adventures with Lettie to reflect on his childhood. Strangely, these supposedly resolved memories still stir his emotions, leaving an indelible mark of pain.
These pains are the dark sides of childhood that he doesn鈥檛 want to recall. Over 40 years have passed, his memories have been wandering in a state of chaos and ambiguity. He clearly remembers that it was Lettie who saved him and was seriously injured, and then she was put into the pond (ocean) by her mother and drifted away. But Lettie's mother said that Lettie did not die, and that everything in the universe changes according to predetermined rules. There is no unchanging world.
The ocean world built by Gaiman is really fastinating. Combining elements like guarding, punishment, constant change, and life in a book is even tougher. The key is how to tell a good story, and clearly, The Ocean at the End of the Lane has done it.
Childhood is not as innocent and beautiful as one might think. It magnifies society, hiding unknown dangers and traps that require courage to face. Every adult carry parts of their child selves - those weaknesses and uncertainties still reside deep within, not disappearing with physical maturity.
In the end, Gaiman doesn't provide a perfect conclusion. Whenever facing setbacks, without even realizing it, "I" return to "Lettie鈥檚 ocean" to confide in her. This "Lettie's ocean" is his 鈥渙cean of forgetting," where fears, anxieties, and sorrows are submerged. These emotions, seen by children as not belonging to adults, have always existed deep in everyone's soul. They are our most genuine and pure emotions.
There are no so-called adults, only children striving to grow.
5 / 5 stars
Edited on 11th Feb, 2025. Re-loving this novel for the 3rd time.
My other reviews of Gaiman's Work:
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Graveyard Book
Coraline
Neverwhere
American Gods
Stardust
August 24, 2020
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 & grand imagination), with suds atop (the frivolity and juxtaposition of childhood elements with the supernatural positively effervesce) but much darker & stranger as the composites of the undertow sometimes reach upward, showing us the complex nature of human souls.
It's a true achievement.
It's a true achievement.
October 7, 2021
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a 2013 novel by British author Neil Gaiman.
The work follows an unnamed man who returns to his hometown for a funeral and remembers events that began forty years earlier.
At the age of 7, the unnamed boy is facing many crises, not the least of which is his parents have let out his room to lodgers in order to raise extra money.
When one lodger commits suicide in the family car, the boy鈥檚 life changes in subtle and strange ways.
He meets a family up the road from his home who may or may not be witches.
He coughs up a coin, discovers a duck pond that may be an ocean, and encounters a giant tent-like creature that is dangerous and very ancient.
Throughout the boy鈥檚 adventure, his family is completely unaware of the threats around them, forcing the boy to be resourceful and independent of adult help.
The narrator is conscious of the fact he is reminiscing about times long past, and so the reader is kept one step away from directly experiencing the action of the story.
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鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 14/09/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 14/07/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a 2013 novel by British author Neil Gaiman.
The work follows an unnamed man who returns to his hometown for a funeral and remembers events that began forty years earlier.
At the age of 7, the unnamed boy is facing many crises, not the least of which is his parents have let out his room to lodgers in order to raise extra money.
When one lodger commits suicide in the family car, the boy鈥檚 life changes in subtle and strange ways.
He meets a family up the road from his home who may or may not be witches.
He coughs up a coin, discovers a duck pond that may be an ocean, and encounters a giant tent-like creature that is dangerous and very ancient.
Throughout the boy鈥檚 adventure, his family is completely unaware of the threats around them, forcing the boy to be resourceful and independent of adult help.
The narrator is conscious of the fact he is reminiscing about times long past, and so the reader is kept one step away from directly experiencing the action of the story.
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April 28, 2015
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, that's the beauty of the concept.
Can a book being a library? Mmh...
Since, in these 181 pages, you have a fairy tale, a horror story, a family drama, even adventure, humor, philosophy, etc...
A THICK BOOK ISN'T GUARANTEE OF ANYTHING GOOD
A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.
Neil Gaiman can accomplish so much more in just 181 pages than other authors in 700 plus pages.
A big book isn't a guarantee of being any good.
A short book can be as much fantastic, if not more.
Even it's more respectful being able to create a so rich story in so few pages than having 700 plus pages and not resolving anything.
Sometimes people can think that only thick books deserve respect and don't get me wrong, there are many thick books indeed worthy of respect, but the quantity of written pages isn't a certification that any book is indeed really good.
And certainly there are also bad small books too.
But I can tell you that...
...this is a small book AND it's reallly good!
LOOKS CAN BE DECEIVING
Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside.
This is a story where I can assure you that I was so scared at some moments than in other books clearly labeled as horror, and I was so astounded with the magic here than in other books clearly labeled as fantasy.
Even if you know some of Neil Gaiman's influences when he was a kid, you will be glad to see them here in a way or other.
Even if you read really carefully you will get to know about where certain other writers got some ideas for their own insanely famous books, letting clear that sometimes author's originality is just a matter of reader's ignorance.
Highly recommended!
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, that's the beauty of the concept.
Can a book being a library? Mmh...
Since, in these 181 pages, you have a fairy tale, a horror story, a family drama, even adventure, humor, philosophy, etc...
A THICK BOOK ISN'T GUARANTEE OF ANYTHING GOOD
A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.
Neil Gaiman can accomplish so much more in just 181 pages than other authors in 700 plus pages.
A big book isn't a guarantee of being any good.
A short book can be as much fantastic, if not more.
Even it's more respectful being able to create a so rich story in so few pages than having 700 plus pages and not resolving anything.
Sometimes people can think that only thick books deserve respect and don't get me wrong, there are many thick books indeed worthy of respect, but the quantity of written pages isn't a certification that any book is indeed really good.
And certainly there are also bad small books too.
But I can tell you that...
...this is a small book AND it's reallly good!
LOOKS CAN BE DECEIVING
Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside.
This is a story where I can assure you that I was so scared at some moments than in other books clearly labeled as horror, and I was so astounded with the magic here than in other books clearly labeled as fantasy.
Even if you know some of Neil Gaiman's influences when he was a kid, you will be glad to see them here in a way or other.
Even if you read really carefully you will get to know about where certain other writers got some ideas for their own insanely famous books, letting clear that sometimes author's originality is just a matter of reader's ignorance.
Highly recommended!
July 18, 2019
This book is ALIVE
Neil Gaiman's axiom-twisting novel reads like a modern-day fairytale.
The Ocean At The End Of The Lane was recommended to me by so many Goodreaders that it became impossible to ignore.
New to Gaiman, I was quickly surprised at how easily he retains childhood memories and then scatters them into the furrows of his work.
The narrative flowed smoothly and reading became effortless, which is always a good sign: the author has a lean writing style and hyperbole was kept to a minimum. The genius was in its simplicity.
The story is told from a bookish (and unworldly) boy's perspective, leading me to imagine that this is Gaiman himself (the boy's name is never announced, so that's my daft assumption).
His nemesis, Ursula Monkton, has a surname that seemed so out of sync with her Christian name that I immediately assumed it to be a crafty anagram of the author's own choosing (it wasn't), though a quick shuffle of this name within an anagram finder did come up with 'Non-mortal'.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, despite it being adult-lite.
I felt transported back to my childhood again, a middle-aged man enjoying Brothers Grimm once more.
Gaiman's writing style is, for the most part, understated, but it does become amplified and fanciful when required.
Despite being left wondering if this was a children's book that adults could read, or an adult book that children could read, I had such a blast reading it.
It was altogether quirky, quaint and magical, but (er, sorry to say) I'd rather have read it when I was a child.
Hence the two-star deduction. Sorry Gaiman fans! : (
I'm wondering if previous readers of this book can help me?
At the beginning of chapter three, the narrator has won twenty-five pounds on the Premium Bonds. His mother puts this into his Post Office account. He then announces that he is 'thirteen pounds and eleven shillings richer than he was before'.
Am I missing something? I'm either being incredibly stupid, or there's a glaring error in this passage? (More likely the former).
If anyone does know the answer, could they please enlighten me? Thank you very much.
Neil Gaiman's axiom-twisting novel reads like a modern-day fairytale.
The Ocean At The End Of The Lane was recommended to me by so many Goodreaders that it became impossible to ignore.
New to Gaiman, I was quickly surprised at how easily he retains childhood memories and then scatters them into the furrows of his work.
The narrative flowed smoothly and reading became effortless, which is always a good sign: the author has a lean writing style and hyperbole was kept to a minimum. The genius was in its simplicity.
The story is told from a bookish (and unworldly) boy's perspective, leading me to imagine that this is Gaiman himself (the boy's name is never announced, so that's my daft assumption).
His nemesis, Ursula Monkton, has a surname that seemed so out of sync with her Christian name that I immediately assumed it to be a crafty anagram of the author's own choosing (it wasn't), though a quick shuffle of this name within an anagram finder did come up with 'Non-mortal'.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, despite it being adult-lite.
I felt transported back to my childhood again, a middle-aged man enjoying Brothers Grimm once more.
Gaiman's writing style is, for the most part, understated, but it does become amplified and fanciful when required.
Despite being left wondering if this was a children's book that adults could read, or an adult book that children could read, I had such a blast reading it.
It was altogether quirky, quaint and magical, but (er, sorry to say) I'd rather have read it when I was a child.
Hence the two-star deduction. Sorry Gaiman fans! : (
I'm wondering if previous readers of this book can help me?
At the beginning of chapter three, the narrator has won twenty-five pounds on the Premium Bonds. His mother puts this into his Post Office account. He then announces that he is 'thirteen pounds and eleven shillings richer than he was before'.
Am I missing something? I'm either being incredibly stupid, or there's a glaring error in this passage? (More likely the former).
If anyone does know the answer, could they please enlighten me? Thank you very much.
June 23, 2013
While in his home town for a funeral, a middle aged man drives to the site of his parents' former home and visits visits the farm at the end of the road, where he remembers some curious events from when he was seven...
First off, I'll get the gripes out of the way. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is marketed as Gaiman's first adult novel since Anansi Boys. It feels a lot more like a young adult novel, more akin to the Graveyard Book or Coraline than American Gods. Secondly, it's only 175 pages long. In and of itself, that's fine, but with a whopping 25.99 price tag, it's kind of a gouge.
Gripes aside, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a pretty cool book. Gaiman does a masterful job at portraying the nameless lead character, a seven year old boy who befriends at odd eleven-year old girl named Lettie, who may or may not be as old as the universe, and her mother and grand mother. Maiden, mother, and crone remember the Old Country, which sank, or the really Old Country, which blew up.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, like a lot of Neil Gaimain work, deals with dreams, the effect of belief on reality, and forgotten things, like things that every kid knows and every adult has forgotten.
There's not a lot I can say without giving away the best bits. Gaiman has a way of making his young adult books way scarier than his adult ones and this one falls into that category. Urusula and the hunger birds were both pretty creepy, as was what happened with the boy's foot.
That's about all I can say. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a really quick read but full of interesting ideas and great moments. Four out of five. I may elevate it to a five on a reread.
First off, I'll get the gripes out of the way. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is marketed as Gaiman's first adult novel since Anansi Boys. It feels a lot more like a young adult novel, more akin to the Graveyard Book or Coraline than American Gods. Secondly, it's only 175 pages long. In and of itself, that's fine, but with a whopping 25.99 price tag, it's kind of a gouge.
Gripes aside, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a pretty cool book. Gaiman does a masterful job at portraying the nameless lead character, a seven year old boy who befriends at odd eleven-year old girl named Lettie, who may or may not be as old as the universe, and her mother and grand mother. Maiden, mother, and crone remember the Old Country, which sank, or the really Old Country, which blew up.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, like a lot of Neil Gaimain work, deals with dreams, the effect of belief on reality, and forgotten things, like things that every kid knows and every adult has forgotten.
There's not a lot I can say without giving away the best bits. Gaiman has a way of making his young adult books way scarier than his adult ones and this one falls into that category. Urusula and the hunger birds were both pretty creepy, as was what happened with the boy's foot.
That's about all I can say. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a really quick read but full of interesting ideas and great moments. Four out of five. I may elevate it to a five on a reread.
Want to read
December 4, 2013I want to read this book so much.
January 2, 2024
My complete review is published at .
Sometime during the course of growing up, we lose that connection to the magic of childhood. It鈥檚 a loss of innocence and imagination that seems to happen gradually. By the time we realize it鈥檚 gone, it鈥檚 too late to recapture. The Ocean at the End of the Lane eloquently captures the wonders of childhood in this surprisingly dark novel from Neil Gaiman.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane opens with the adult narrator returning to his childhood home for a funeral. His childhood memories are rekindled during his visit home, especially in relation to a neighbor girl with whom he played as a child.
Childhood memories have a magical quality to them. Everything seemed bigger as a child, and there seemed to be a touch of magic to the unexplainable phenomena of the world. Is that pond at the end of the lane really an ocean? Or did it just seem that way as a child?
Neil Gaiman is in absolute peak form in this beautifully told story about reconnecting with the magic and imagination of childhood. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told like a fairy tale, because that鈥檚 what childhood is, isn鈥檛 it?
This is a story of friendship and sacrifice, a story of lost innocence, and a story of the wondrous power of imagination. The narrator gradually discovers that his childhood memories may not be what they seem.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane is also surprisingly dark, including a scene where the narrator extracts a magical worm from his foot that will make even the darkest of grimdark fans squirm.
I can鈥檛 think of another book that captures the magic of childhood so beautifully, evoking so many emotions of wonder and excitement, of love and loss. Five very enthusiastic stars for this dark and magical masterpiece that is The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
Sometime during the course of growing up, we lose that connection to the magic of childhood. It鈥檚 a loss of innocence and imagination that seems to happen gradually. By the time we realize it鈥檚 gone, it鈥檚 too late to recapture. The Ocean at the End of the Lane eloquently captures the wonders of childhood in this surprisingly dark novel from Neil Gaiman.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane opens with the adult narrator returning to his childhood home for a funeral. His childhood memories are rekindled during his visit home, especially in relation to a neighbor girl with whom he played as a child.
Childhood memories have a magical quality to them. Everything seemed bigger as a child, and there seemed to be a touch of magic to the unexplainable phenomena of the world. Is that pond at the end of the lane really an ocean? Or did it just seem that way as a child?
Neil Gaiman is in absolute peak form in this beautifully told story about reconnecting with the magic and imagination of childhood. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told like a fairy tale, because that鈥檚 what childhood is, isn鈥檛 it?
This is a story of friendship and sacrifice, a story of lost innocence, and a story of the wondrous power of imagination. The narrator gradually discovers that his childhood memories may not be what they seem.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane is also surprisingly dark, including a scene where the narrator extracts a magical worm from his foot that will make even the darkest of grimdark fans squirm.
I can鈥檛 think of another book that captures the magic of childhood so beautifully, evoking so many emotions of wonder and excitement, of love and loss. Five very enthusiastic stars for this dark and magical masterpiece that is The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
October 8, 2021
1.5 Kompletnie ksi膮偶ka nie dla mnie. I nawet nie chodzi o docelowego odbiorc臋, ale ca艂y ten koncept, abstrakcja i 鈥瀝ealizm magiczny鈥� chocia偶 to raczej 偶aden realizm a po prostu magia, nie podoba mi si臋. Nic nie jest wyt艂umaczone, zadne zasady nie s膮 nam powiedziane, mo偶e si臋 wydarzy膰 zupe艂nie wszystko o dzieje si臋 nic. Dobrze napisane. To wszystkie plusy jakie mam na temat tej ksi膮偶ki. Nie polecam :(
December 15, 2022
賲賳 丕賱賰賲丕賱 丕賳 購鬲丿乇賰 賳賯氐賰芦賱廿賳賰 賱丕 鬲賻賳噩賻丨 兀賵 鬲賻乇爻購亘 賮賷 賰賵賳賰 廿賳爻丕賳賸丕 賷丕 毓夭賷夭賷禄
賮賷 乇丕卅毓鬲賴 毓賳 胤賮賵賱鬲賳丕 丕噩賲毓賷賳貨賷氐賮毓賳丕 噩丕賷賲丕賳 亘丨賯丕卅賯 賳鬲賴乇亘 賲賳 賲毓乇賮鬲賴丕 賵 匕賰乇賷丕鬲 賳鬲賳丕爻賴丕 賵 賰賷賳賵賳丞 賳乇賮囟賴丕 賵 禺賷亘丕鬲 鬲購禺噩賱賳丕貨賵 睾乇亘丞 賯丿 賳賴丕噩乇 賱賰賷 賳鬲毓丕賮賷 賲賳賴丕
賷賲賳丨賳丕 賲毓丕丿賱丞 亘爻賷胤丞 賵 賱賰賳賴丕 丨鬲賲賷丞
丕賱禺賷丕賱+丕賱丨賱賲 +丕賱賲毓乇賮丞 = 丕賱丕賲賱
丕賱賲毓乇賮丞+丕賱匕賰乇賷+丕賱鬲賵賯毓丕鬲= 丕賱禺賷亘丞
兀賳丕 毓賱賶 賷賯賷賳賺 賲賳 兀賳賷 賰賳鬲購 亘賲孬丕亘丞 禺賷亘丞 兀賲賱賺 賱賴*
廿賳賴 賱賲 賷賻胤賱購亘 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 賱賴 丕亘賳 賱丕 賴賻賲賻賾 賱賴 廿賱賻賾丕 丕賱賰購鬲購亘貙 賷睾賷亘 賮賷 毓丕賱賲賴 丕賱禺丕氐貙亘賱 兀乇丕丿賻 丕亘賳賸丕 賷賮毓賱 賲丕 賰丕賳 賷賮毓賱賴 賴賵貨*
賴賱 賲丕夭賱鬲 丕乇賷丿 丕賳 丕賱毓亘責 *
亘胤賱賳丕 賱丕 丕爻賲 賱賴貨 賱丕 丕氐丿賯丕亍 賱賴貨 賵 賱丕 丨馗 賱賴貨
卮睾賮賴 丕賱賵丨賷丿 賮賷 賰鬲亘賴 賵 賲噩賱丕鬲賴 丕賱賲爻賱爻賱丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷丨賱賯 賲毓賴丕 賱毓賵丕賱賲 丕賱丕爻丕胤賷乇貨 丕賲丕賳賴 丕賱丨賯賷賯賷 "賲孬賱賳丕 噩賲賷毓丕 " 賮賷 丨噩乇鬲賴 賲毓 丨乇賵賮 賷丨賱賯 賲毓賴丕貨 丕爻乇鬲賴 賱丕 鬲賲賳丨賴 鬲毓丕胤賮丕 賷購匕賰乇貨 賵 鬲噩乇賮賴賲 丕夭賲丕鬲賴賲 丕賱賲丕丿賷丞 賵 賰賮丕禺賴賲 賱賱丨賮丕馗 毓賱賷 賲夭乇毓鬲賴賲 亘丕賱乇賷賮 丕賱亘乇賷胤丕賳賷
貨 賷賮賯丿 胤賮賱 丕賱爻丕亘毓丞 睾乇賮鬲賴 賵 丕賲丕賳賴 孬賲 賷亘丿丕 賮賷 賮賯丿丕賳 亘乇丕亍鬲賴 賲毓 賲氐乇毓 賯胤鬲賴 "丕賱賵丨賷丿丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賲賳丨賴 丨囟賳丕 賷賵賲賷丕 丿丕賮卅丕"賵 賷賰賲賱 胤乇賷賯 賮賯丿丕賳賴 賱賱亘乇丕亍丞 亘乇丐賷鬲賴 賱噩孬丞 丕賱賲爻鬲兀噩乇貨 賱鬲馗賴乇 賮賵乇丕 賱賷鬲賷 賴賲亘爻鬲賵賰貨 賱鬲毓亘乇 亘賴 賮賷 乇丨賱鬲賴 丕賱賲賱丨賲賷丞 賱賱賳囟噩
賴賱 夭賴丿鬲 丕賱賱毓亘 賮毓賱丕責 丕賲 爻兀賲鬲 丕賱賱毓亘 賵丨賷丿丕責
丕賱賳丕爻 賱丕 賷鬲睾賷乇賵賳 賮賷 丕賱爻亘毓賷賳 毓賳 噩賵賴乇賴賲 賮賷 丕賱爻丕亘毓丞 賮胤亘賷毓鬲賰 丕賱丨賯丞 賱賳 鬲睾賷乇賴丕 丕賱賲毓乇賮丞貨 丕賵 丕賱丕爻乇丞貨 丕賵 丨鬲賷 丕賱賳賰亘丕鬲貨
賴賱 賴匕丕 賲賳 丨爻賳 丕賱丨馗 丕賲 賳賰丿 丕賱丿賳賷丕責
賱賰賳 賴賱 鬲乇賰鬲 賱賰 胤賮賵賱鬲賰 賮乇氐丞 賱鬲賰鬲卮賮 匕丕鬲賰 亘丕賱賰丕賲賱責
丕賱賰賽亘丕乇 賷賻爻賱購賰賵賳 丕賱胤購賾乇購賯貙 兀賲賻賾丕 丕賱兀胤賮丕賱 賮賷賻爻鬲賻賰卮賽賮賵賳. 丕賱賰賽亘丕乇 賷賯賳毓賵賳 亘丕賱爻賻賾賷乇 賮賷 丕賱胤賻賾乇賷賯 賳賮爻賴 賲卅丕鬲 丕賱賲乇賻賾丕鬲貙
賮賷 賲胤亘禺 賳爻丕亍 賴賲亘爻鬲賵賰 賷賰鬲卮賮 丕賱氐亘賷 胤毓賲 丕賱丿賳賷丕 亘賲毓賳賷 丕賱賰賱賲丞貨 賮賲丕 賷亘賯賶 賱賳丕 賲賳 賲匕丕賯丕鬲 丕賱胤賮賵賱丞 賷賯賵丿 卮賴賷鬲賳丕 胤賵丕賱 毓賲乇賳丕 丿賵賳 丕賳 賳丿乇賰
賵 賯丿 丕賯鬲乇賳 丕賱 賴賲亘爻鬲賵賰 亘丕賱賲匕丕賯 丕賱賮丕禺乇 賵 丕賱賱匕丞 丕賱丕賯氐賷 賲賳 丕賱丕胤毓賲丞貨 賵 丕賱鬲賷 爻鬲毓賷丿 匕賰乇丕賴丕 賲乇丕乇丕 亘胤賱賳丕 賱亘丕亘賴賲貨 賱丕賳 丕賴鬲賲丕賲賴賲 亘噩賵丿丞 丕賱胤毓賲 賷乇賲夭 賮賷 匕賴賳賴 丿賵賲丕 賱丕賴鬲賲丕賲 賷賮鬲賯丿賴 賮賷 亘賷鬲賴
賲毓 賱賷鬲賷 丕賰鬲卮賮賳丕 賲毓 丕賱氐亘賷 丕賳賳丕 賯丕丿乇賷賳 毓賱賷 賲賵丕噩賴丞 丕賱毓賵丕氐賮 賵 丕賱賵丨賵卮貨 賳丨鬲賲賷 亘賱賷鬲賷 賵 賳鬲賲爻賰 亘賷丿賴丕 丨鬲賷 賷賵爻賵爻 賱賳丕 毓賯賱賳丕 丕賱賲鬲爻賵爻 賱賰賷 賳鬲乇賰賴丕 賱丕賷 爻亘亘貨
丕賱賲丨賷胤 賵 賱賷鬲賷 賵 噩賷賳賷 賵 丕賱噩丿丞 賷乇賲夭賵丕 賱賱賲毓乇賮丞 賵 丕賱夭賲賳 賵 丕賱丨賰賲丞 丕賱丕丿乇丕賰賷丞 丕賱賳丕囟噩丞 丕賱賰賱賷丞貨丕賱鬲賷 賱丕 鬲鬲賰丕賲賱听丕賱丕 毓亘乇 賲乇丕丨賱 丕賱毓賲乇 丕賱孬賱丕孬丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷賲孬賱賳賴丕 賲毓丕 賵 丕賱鬲賷 賯丿 鬲賵丿賷 亘賴丕 丿賵丿丞 賵丕丨丿丞 賮賷
乇賲夭賷丞 賱賲禺丕賵賮 丕賱賮丕賳賷賷賳 賲賳 丕賱鬲丨賱賱
賵丕賱賲賵鬲
賴賱 賷氐丨 丕賳 丕賱毓亘責 楼
賮賷 丕胤丕乇 賲賳 丕賱賵丕賯毓賷丞 丕賱爻丨乇賷丞 賳賳胤賱賯 賲毓 丕賱氐丿賷賯賷賳 賮賷 丨乇亘賴賲丕 囟丿 丕賱亘乇睾賵孬丞 丕賱賲鬲丨賵賱丞 賵 胤賷賵乇 丕賱噩賵毓:丕賱賲賳馗賮賵賳 賵 亘賷賳 丕賱爻胤賵乇 賳乇賷
賰賷賮 鬲鬲丨賵賱 丕賱賯爻賵丞 賱賵丨卮 賷賱鬲賴賲 賯賱亘賰 賵 賰賷賮 賷賲賷鬲賴 丕賱馗賱賲 賵 丕賱鬲噩丕賴賱
賰賷賮 鬲賱鬲賴賲 丕賱禺賷亘丕鬲 賯賱亘賰 亘卮乇丕賴丞 鬲賲丕賲丕 賰鬲賱賰 丕賱胤賷賵乇 丕賱鬲賷 鬲爻鬲賳噩丿 亘賴丕 賱鬲賮賳賷賰
賵 賰賷賮 賳噩丿 丕賱乇丕丨丞 賮賷 賲毓乇賮丞 :丕賱噩丿賵賷
噩丿賵賷 賰賷賳賵賳鬲賳丕 丕賱鬲賷 賯丿 賳丿乇賰賴丕 賱賱丨馗丞 孬賲 鬲賴乇亘 賲賳丕 賰丕賱胤賷賮 丕賱賲乇丕賵睾 賱賳鬲賵賯 丕賱賷賴丕 毓賲乇丕 賰丕賲賱丕
丕孬賳丕亍 乇賰囟賳丕 賵乇丕亍 丕賱賲毓乇賮丞 賵 丕賱賵賳爻 賮賷 丕賱胤乇賷賯 丕賱賷 賳賴丕賷丞 丕賱丿乇亘貨 丿乇亘 丕賱賲毓乇賮丞 丕賱匕賷 賷賳丕丿賷賳丕 賱賳毓賵丿
賴賱 爻賷毓賷丿 丕賱賱毓亘 乇賵丨賷 丕賱賷賾責
賴賱 賷乇賵賷 丕孬賳丕賳 賳賮爻 丕賱賯氐丞 丕亘丿丕責
睾乇丕卅夭賳丕 丕賱丕爻丕爻賷丞 鬲噩匕亘賳丕 丿賵賲丕 賱廿賰賲丕賱 丕賱賱毓亘丞.. 賵 賱賰賳 賴賱 賳賰賲賱賴丕 賵 賳丨賳 賲乇睾賲賷賳責
賮賷 乇丕卅毓鬲賴 毓賳 胤賮賵賱鬲賳丕 丕噩賲毓賷賳貨賷氐賮毓賳丕 噩丕賷賲丕賳 亘丨賯丕卅賯 賳鬲賴乇亘 賲賳 賲毓乇賮鬲賴丕 賵 匕賰乇賷丕鬲 賳鬲賳丕爻賴丕 賵 賰賷賳賵賳丞 賳乇賮囟賴丕 賵 禺賷亘丕鬲 鬲購禺噩賱賳丕貨賵 睾乇亘丞 賯丿 賳賴丕噩乇 賱賰賷 賳鬲毓丕賮賷 賲賳賴丕
賷賲賳丨賳丕 賲毓丕丿賱丞 亘爻賷胤丞 賵 賱賰賳賴丕 丨鬲賲賷丞
丕賱禺賷丕賱+丕賱丨賱賲 +丕賱賲毓乇賮丞 = 丕賱丕賲賱
丕賱賲毓乇賮丞+丕賱匕賰乇賷+丕賱鬲賵賯毓丕鬲= 丕賱禺賷亘丞
兀賳丕 毓賱賶 賷賯賷賳賺 賲賳 兀賳賷 賰賳鬲購 亘賲孬丕亘丞 禺賷亘丞 兀賲賱賺 賱賴*
廿賳賴 賱賲 賷賻胤賱購亘 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 賱賴 丕亘賳 賱丕 賴賻賲賻賾 賱賴 廿賱賻賾丕 丕賱賰購鬲購亘貙 賷睾賷亘 賮賷 毓丕賱賲賴 丕賱禺丕氐貙亘賱 兀乇丕丿賻 丕亘賳賸丕 賷賮毓賱 賲丕 賰丕賳 賷賮毓賱賴 賴賵貨*
賴賱 賲丕夭賱鬲 丕乇賷丿 丕賳 丕賱毓亘責 *
亘胤賱賳丕 賱丕 丕爻賲 賱賴貨 賱丕 丕氐丿賯丕亍 賱賴貨 賵 賱丕 丨馗 賱賴貨
卮睾賮賴 丕賱賵丨賷丿 賮賷 賰鬲亘賴 賵 賲噩賱丕鬲賴 丕賱賲爻賱爻賱丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷丨賱賯 賲毓賴丕 賱毓賵丕賱賲 丕賱丕爻丕胤賷乇貨 丕賲丕賳賴 丕賱丨賯賷賯賷 "賲孬賱賳丕 噩賲賷毓丕 " 賮賷 丨噩乇鬲賴 賲毓 丨乇賵賮 賷丨賱賯 賲毓賴丕貨 丕爻乇鬲賴 賱丕 鬲賲賳丨賴 鬲毓丕胤賮丕 賷購匕賰乇貨 賵 鬲噩乇賮賴賲 丕夭賲丕鬲賴賲 丕賱賲丕丿賷丞 賵 賰賮丕禺賴賲 賱賱丨賮丕馗 毓賱賷 賲夭乇毓鬲賴賲 亘丕賱乇賷賮 丕賱亘乇賷胤丕賳賷
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