El océano al final del camino

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Neil Gaiman: El océano al final del camino (Spanish language, 2014, Rocabolsillo)

297 pages

Spanish language

Published Sept. 14, 2014 by Rocabolsillo.

ISBN:
978-84-15729-57-0
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OCLC Number:
899742191

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2 stars (1 review)

Hace cuarenta años, cuando nuestro narrador contaba apenas siete, el hombre que alquilaba la habitación sobrante en la casa familiar se suicido dentro del coche de su padre, un acontecimiento que provoco que antiguos poderes dormidos cobraran vida y que criaturas de más alla de este mundo se liberaran. El horror, la amenaza, se congregan a partir de entonces para destruir a la familia del protagonista. Su única defensa la constituiran las tres mujeres que viven en la granja desvencijada al final del camino. La más joven de ellas, Lettie, afirma que el estanque es, en realidad, un oceano. La mayor dice que recuerda el Big Bang.

It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our …

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Review of 'The Ocean at the End of the Lane' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

This was like reading Neverwhere again. Except the main character is a child not 30ish. And I'm 30 odd, not a child.

It pretty much hits all the beats of Gaiman story, but here the structure creaks and groans. He mixes Coraline with Neverwhere, with American Gods, all the elements are there, and none of them feel original, or interesting. The quirky mystery of the Hempstocks was just annoying rather than alluring.

The main character has no agency, he just gets thrown from event to event, and his big heroic moment has him literally sitting still for hours.

No, I didn't like this at all. It's so bad that it may have tainted the earlier, better Gaiman stories, and that makes me kinda sad...

Subjects

  • Supervivencia
  • Magic
  • Memoria
  • Mujeres
  • Survival
  • Bien y mal
  • Fiction
  • Boys
  • Memory
  • Ficción
  • Women
  • Magia
  • Muchachos
  • Good and evil