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2025-03-07
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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 ...
評分奇幻大師尼爾蓋曼的《車道盡頭的海洋》講的是一個7歲的小男孩的故事。他的童年生活並不幸福。幸虧認識瞭住在車道盡頭那傢的女孩萊蒂,纔給童年帶來一絲亮色。她傢後院裏有一個小小的水塘,可是萊蒂卻堅持說這是一個海洋。萊蒂帶他進入到一個奇幻世界曆險,卻無意中把妖怪帶迴現...
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
尼爾·蓋曼真喜歡寫這種毫·無·背·景·可·言的小說啊,讀者不是想在神話、曆史或者其他作品中找reference嗎?“誒嘿嘿我就是不讓你們找得到~~~” ……= =。不過這本裏對男孩子恐懼心理的描寫真不錯,能讓人有切膚之感。
評分開頭和中段好過結尾。A page-turner.
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
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
評分今年的Xmas gift!超驚喜。一拿到就忍不住翻瞭起來,一口氣翻瞭幾十頁覺得這樣下去這麼厚一本應該很快讀完瞭又不捨,於是強令自己減慢速度。。。--果然一個晚上讀完,是248頁啦不是190頁。世界觀設定果然又宏大瞭起來,可是感覺很多東西都沒講清楚。NG 有瞭自己的模闆瞭,看到中間一直忍不住想到卡羅琳的故事。以及他果然是個永遠長不大的,玻璃心的7歲小男孩。
The Ocean at the End of the Lane 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載