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The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Neil Gaiman

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May 31, 2018 Jules rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: magical-realism, kindle-bought, fantasy

I bought this three years ago, and can finally now say I’ve read a Neil Gaiman book. My husband has been trying to get me to read Good Omens for about twenty years, and in fact, he read this book shortly after I bought it. However, despite liking Neil Gaiman, he said he found this extremely boring, so I was very much hoping my experience was a more positive one. I can say, I didn’t find it that bad, but I definitely didn’t fall in love with it.

I loved the film Coraline and the TV series of Amer ...more

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Apr 13, 2014 Katharina Gerlach rated it did not like it

Shelves: young-adult, adult

When I got the book I though it'd be a short read because it looked so slim. However, when I opened it, I realized that Harper had used a font so small you could barely read it with a magnifying glass. That's no way to print a book! That's why I gave this edition one star only.

Apart from that, the story is brilliant. I've been at odds with some of Gaiman's latest novels (the words imho was American Gods) and this one was closer to the things he used to write. I loved Lettie and couldn't put the ...more

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