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The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Neil Gaiman

Start date: October 15, 2013

Finish date: October 31, 2013

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Sep 24, 2015 Flying Monkey rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audible, childrens, 2015, 2022

5 Stars!

I highly recommend you listen to the audiobook. Neil Gaiman narrates and he is amazing. His voice and the story just fits beautifully. I loved it.

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Mar 14, 2018 Kavitha Sivakumar rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ir-armchair-2018

My second Neil Gaiman book. Both the books are unusual fantasy books. I couldn't put this gripping novel. One passage in the novel, "In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie", strongly reminded me of the book A Wizard of EarthSea by Ursula Le Guin. And lo behold, one of the character is Ursula. The author is definitely a fan of Ursula Le Guin :) ...more

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