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Neil Gaiman has a way of describing childhood that is magical, terrifying and starkly honest. I listened to Gaiman reading this, which added another level of interest. Like most of my favorite Gaiman stories, this is a good vs. evil tale. The question of whether or not this happened the way the character remembers it is up for interpretation. There is a way to look at this story as an allegory that a child imagines to cope with a chain of horrific events. I prefer to believe the magical elements
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Mar 31, 2014
Donna Zigmont
marked it as to-read