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I've seen arguments on this site about genre fiction - Is something fantasy, magic-realism, literary fiction, science fiction or any of a hundred other sub-categories. But usually, the divide between books for children and books for adults is pretty clear. Even if I rather enjoyed Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy when I read them in my late 20s, I knew they were principally aimed at kids, and perhaps what I enjoyed about them was a kind of vicarious revisiting of childhood.
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Neil Gaiman’s writing is just 😍😍😍
The Ocean at the End of the Lane follows the journey of a man returning to his childhood home for a funeral, and remembering his long forgotten past. The story lifts from the page like a dream long forgotten, with Gaiman really hitting the mark on thinking how a child responds to events so much differently than an adult.
You never really know what is real throughout each scene, as the experiences are so cleverly woven in with debatable truths that you almost have ...more
The Ocean at the End of the Lane follows the journey of a man returning to his childhood home for a funeral, and remembering his long forgotten past. The story lifts from the page like a dream long forgotten, with Gaiman really hitting the mark on thinking how a child responds to events so much differently than an adult.
You never really know what is real throughout each scene, as the experiences are so cleverly woven in with debatable truths that you almost have ...more
