The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil GaimanMy rating: 6 of 10 stars
This was one of the first audiobooks I read. Well it was the first full lengthened novel I read. Well sort of because this novel had around 250 pages.
First of all, Neil Gaiman is no doubt a good writer and since he wrote the novel he read the book flawlessly.
This is a story of a man who returns home to a funeral after several years and after going to a house he starts remembering his own past.
This story is a good fantasy/literature fiction. It's a story with a magic realism into it. It's a perfect book to those who veheemently say that will not read fantasy and that's not a real genre or at least accredited part of literature fiction.
I really enjoyed knowing about the unamed character has he goes through some problematic time in his life. I like the three womans (remind us of the old celtic trinity, or the phases of the moon. The Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone.
My problem with the novel was the over simplicity of all, nevertheless a good story, but not for children. Well they can read but a adult will compreehend better the links to folk tales, myths and story.
Interesting Phrase: “I’m going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is, there aren’t any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
Advisable to all.
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