Bookworms discussion

Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.

Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.

A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.

Happy Reading ☺!

So just tell me when we should start :) I'll start right away

I am starting it now :D

Sorry. I only just saw your comment now! Have you started it? I did and flew through it in the course of a day

It honestly has some of the most beautiful and quotable writing I have ever experienced.

It feels almost like a fairy tale or a children's story with the simplicity and yet poignancy of the writing and how the real world and the fantastical sphere combine so beautifully.

I also love how I have interacted with so many Gaiman fans on here, just from reading this book. This seems to be quite a polarizing book, but the ones who love it, really LOVE it. I am pleased to say that I am definitely in that camp of thinking!

I am still in shock as to how just over 200 pages has packed in such an impactful story. It gave me literally every emotion whilst reading this. I can't wait to dive into my next Gaiman. Definitely a new fan!

Eh I am kinda doing other stuff I started yesterday and I am at the point where 'shit' is about to get real..

Ooooh. Good luck. Pretty sure I didn't breathe through all of the central sections!