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6/4/23: We all remember things differently & childhood memories are even more fallible than most. Told from a 7-year-old's point of view, I can imagine being absolutely terrified by some parts of this tale as a child, & equally fascinated by others. The part with dad & the bath, oh my! The bogeyman in this is Ursula Monkton, only giving people what they want - there's a chilling thought.
If the Varmints tore out his heart, what did Lettie Hempstock have to recover from, who has the most to regret ...more
If the Varmints tore out his heart, what did Lettie Hempstock have to recover from, who has the most to regret ...more
Audiobook narrated by the author
From the book jacket - 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. … As he sits by the pond (a pond that [Lettie] had claimed was an ocean) behind the old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too stran ...more
From the book jacket - 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. … As he sits by the pond (a pond that [Lettie] had claimed was an ocean) behind the old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too stran ...more
I honestly cannot understand the 5 star ratings for this book. It's a decent story but told in a very flat emotionless voice. The whole thing comes across as dull and pretentious. Our narrator is supposed to be a 7 year old boy but he doesn't sound like any child I've ever met. Granted the narrator is really a middle-aged man remembering his childhood but still. The concepts were interesting but the flat narrative totally ruined this book for me.
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The narrator is a man home in England for a funeral. he decides to visit his old neighborhood and ends up at the Hempstock farm at the end of the lane where he grew up. While there he remembers strange events that occurred when he was seven years old. I found the book a bit slow to start but once odd creatures started showing up the book sucked me in. I wish the book was longer because I'm sure there's a lot more Gaiman could write about the Hempstocks.
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This was my first Neil Gaiman book and I loved it. It was equal measure scary, fascinating and fabulous. Bring on the rest of his work!
Jul 08, 2017
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May 06, 2014
Lisa
marked it as to-read
Aug 31, 2015
Vanessa Gayle ⚔️ Fangirl Faction
marked it as to-read
