I make things up and write them down. Which takes us from comics (like SANDMAN) to novels (like ANANSI BOYS and AMERICAN GODS) to short stories (some are collected in SMOKE AND MIRRORS) and to occasionally movies (like Dave McKean's MIRRORMASK or the NEVERWHERE TV series, or my own short film A SHORT FILM ABOUT JOHN BOLTON).
In my spare time I read and sleep and eat and try to keep the blog at www.neilgaiman.com more or less up to date.
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.
發表於2025-03-04
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讀的時候不停懷疑“他是不是發揮失常瞭”“這次寫得太平常瞭”;可當我讀完整本閤上書那之後的整整一天,都還沉浸在故事的氣氛和情緒裏無法自拔。不得不說這次的老梗用得非常常規流式化,但是蓋曼的本事就是這樣的:在最通俗最常見的橋段裏細細浸滿瞭悲傷、哀慟、希望、...
評分This is my smallest book, it's my most personal book. But just because it's small, don't let that fool you. There is weirdness and fantasy, there is magic and fear, there is childhood and an awful lot more wrapped up in a tiny package, just in the way that ...
評分 評分 評分圖書標籤: 奇幻 NeilGaiman 尼爾·蓋曼 小說 英國 英文原版 科幻/奇幻 外國文學
看的譯文版,我看過的幾部NG大叔作品裏最差的......
評分看的譯文版,我看過的幾部NG大叔作品裏最差的......
評分海裏那段非常美,總感覺那個pond是子宮的隱喻,特彆是“So you used to know everything?" "Everybody did."那段。蓋曼自己念的有聲書小孩子和老太太的聲調處理得很好,還獻歌兩段XDDD
評分這次蓋曼叔走的是《奇風歲月》那種緬懷童年的路子,又是一次作者自己“私人化”的文本呈現。思來想去,與這本書比較貼近的舊作大概是《墳場之書》,幾乎沒有典故埋藏在故事裏、奇幻部分的加入又成瞭一種超現實的隱喻。好比《失物之書》裏用臆想來裝點殘酷的戰爭,真實童年裏的灰色記憶則寄托於壞保姆、礦工幽靈、三代魔女、車道盡頭的海洋(bigger on the inside)等意象。美版的封麵文藝又孤獨,中譯本被裝點成一個溫暖的畫片集。西方讀者清一色的好評,我隻是覺得,情懷足矣、卻少瞭一點活潑一份俏皮。一場朦朧又沉重的童夢。
評分翻13年SFF書單找書看纔發現蓋曼又齣瞭本新書。書還是可以的,但說實話對蓋曼自己而言有點炒冷飯之嫌。從主題到故事情節都有點反芻的感覺。。。希望接下來能有所突破啊。實在不行再跟TP閤作一本吧!三點五顆星
The Ocean at the End of the Lane 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載