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kareila_books2019-07-26 03:59 pm
kareila) wrote in kareila_books2019-07-26 03:59 pm
#30: Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane [JRI]
I've owned this book since shortly after it was published, but didn't get around to it until I borrowed the audiobook from my library and listened to it while I was knitting. Now that I've read it, I don't think I'll be needing to keep it in my collection.
This story manages to be simultaneously generic enough and creepy enough to make it less enjoyable for me. It's a story well told, that clearly resonates with the author's own memories and dreams, but I kept expecting it to be either more or less realistic than it was.
Basically The Graveyard Book was perfect and everything else by Gaiman disappoints me in some way. But I still haven't read (or seen) American Gods yet, and I keep hoping I'll like the Good Omens miniseries better than the book when I get around to that.
This story manages to be simultaneously generic enough and creepy enough to make it less enjoyable for me. It's a story well told, that clearly resonates with the author's own memories and dreams, but I kept expecting it to be either more or less realistic than it was.
Basically The Graveyard Book was perfect and everything else by Gaiman disappoints me in some way. But I still haven't read (or seen) American Gods yet, and I keep hoping I'll like the Good Omens miniseries better than the book when I get around to that.