The Ocean At The End Of The Lane

K Pup
1 min readJul 3, 2021

Novel by Neil Gaiman

5 stars

I loved this book. Is it a children’s book? I’m not sure.

The (in my opinion) defining passage in the story:

“The second thing I thought was that I knew everything. Lettie Hempstock’s ocean flowed inside me, and it filled the entire universe, from Egg to Rose. I knew that. I knew what Egg was — where the universe began, to the sound of the uncreated voices singing in the void-and I knew where the Rose was -the peculiar crinkling of space on space into dimensions that fold like origami and blossom like strange orchids, and which would mark the last good time before the eventual end of everything and the next Big Bang, which would be, I knew now, nothing of the kind.”

But I suppose you’d have to read everything that comes before this to take the same pleasure I did.

Been feeling stressed by life’s stresses and found TOATEOTL a very nice escape. Hasn’t changed me but I see no faults that could make it anything less than: 4 stars.

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