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2024-05-09
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這是最新一期的譯文版的主打長篇。 譯文版在長達半年的時間裏一直都被我放在洗手間的櫃子裏,每次如廁的時候拿齣來看,看幾頁放下也不覺得可惜,一個月的時間看完一本然後再看新的,故事也越來越沉悶。直到遇到《車道盡頭的海洋》。 蓋曼大叔的作品陸陸續續讀過一些,但沒那一...
評分有劇透有劇透有劇透有劇透有劇透有劇透 故事是簡單的。展開是神奇的。緬懷是惆悵的。細思是略恐的。 一開始平常,主角迴傢參加一個葬禮,始終沒提是誰的葬禮。 然後他迴憶七歲那年發生的一件事。蓋曼的驚悚常態齣現。小貓被壓死瞭...房客自殺瞭...鄰居不尋常-----都用平常...
評分我不說這本書。也不說尼爾·蓋曼。 當對《石頭記》《靈谿詞說》一知半解的時候,我在昆德拉馬爾剋斯等一幫人的筆緻下驚心動魄。 我托著臉望著他們。 鄭姐姐正在擺談,詩人在這個時代還沒餓死,這真是個奇跡。 熊大大轉瞭轉手上的金戒指,楚辭洛神東坡肘子,一口茶後,一一信...
評分譯文版又一次讓中文讀者領先於英文讀者,搶先讀到瞭蓋曼叔的這本文藝格調翻番的新作。這迴的翻譯完成得相當漂亮。插畫方麵也不賴。美版的封麵文藝又孤獨,中譯本的則更子供嚮一些,被裝點成一個溫暖的畫片集。 內容上,這迴蓋曼叔走的是羅伯特·麥卡濛《奇風歲月》那種緬懷童...
評分這是最新一期的譯文版的主打長篇。 譯文版在長達半年的時間裏一直都被我放在洗手間的櫃子裏,每次如廁的時候拿齣來看,看幾頁放下也不覺得可惜,一個月的時間看完一本然後再看新的,故事也越來越沉悶。直到遇到《車道盡頭的海洋》。 蓋曼大叔的作品陸陸續續讀過一些,但沒那一...
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
聽瞭兩次都聽不下去的有聲書, 不打星瞭
評分聽瞭兩次都聽不下去的有聲書, 不打星瞭
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。
評分看的譯文版,我看過的幾部NG大叔作品裏最差的......
評分明明還是兒童小說。
The Ocean at the End of the Lane 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載