leootherland 's review for:

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

5.0

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Neil Gaiman has a way of making you feel you live in a story, and that that story is your own life. Reading The Ocean at the End of the Lane was like revisiting a childhood I don't remember having. But a childhood so close to the tangled and half-remembered shreds of my own it might as well have been mine. Whether there is actual magic, or just the magic of a childish mind, untarnished by years of life, childhood is a time of mystery and strangeness. Neil captured that so vividly I never wanted to leave. But, like childhood, all books end. It's well we can pick them up again and reread them like familiar paperbacks.