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2025-04-14
The Ocean at the End of the Lane 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
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 評分讀的時候不停懷疑“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、...
評分這些年下來,尼爾蓋曼的書斷斷續續也看瞭不少。印象中它們大多是溫暖的,這種溫暖可以包裹在傳說故事中(《星塵》),也可以經由驚悚懸疑的調調慢慢抽絲剝繭引齣(《蜘蛛男孩》),甚至可以以哥特的風格呈現齣來(《墳場之書》)。題材風格於小說隻是一種錶現形式,而作者...
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
太溫柔的一本小書。尼爾蓋曼怎麼能記得那麼多的事情。童年那麼多恐懼,不應該隨著年紀被一把又一把時間的土埋得嚴嚴實實嗎。
評分和其他Neil Gaiman的小說比起來,這本不太齣色,筆調總是很陰暗,很奇怪的感覺。
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
評分雖以七歲孩子視角來寫,不適閤孩童。黑暗無幽默。驚悚瑰麗一如往常。
評分明明還是兒童小說。
The Ocean at the End of the Lane 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載