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cautionarycleric 's review for:
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
I have to say, this book made me wish I'd read Neil Gaiman my entire life. My friends constantly praised his genius, but after a few false starts, I hadn't really latched on to any of his work. I got this as an audio book to keep me entertained on long plane ride while catching up on other things, and it quickly had my full attention. For one, he's a lovely reader, and the protagonist in this book was not unlike me as a child. He gave the narrator an unexpected amount of tenderness, and my affection for him just added to the depth of the world he immersed me in. I can easily see a coordination between this and Coraline--a little boy finding another world full of big baddies in the guise of adults--but the feel was entirely different to me. It was a reflection on becoming an adult as much as it was ethereal beings. It does what so few books seem to do these days--make me excited to read.