Ep 211 - The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2016
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Neil Gaiman started 2013's The Ocean at the End of the Lane as a novella for his wife, who "doesn't really like fantasy." This gives the book a different vibe from some of Gaiman's other work, though any book that features a tattered sentient bedsheet clears the "fantastical" bar for us.
This breezy book deals mostly in Bradbury-esque musings on the nature of childhood and adulthood, and we spend a lot of time on that as well as the Great Page Count Race of 2016 and our new t-shirt empire.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told |
| 0:10.3 | tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 0:16.5 | Plus these are books you should have read by now. |
| 0:30.0 | How many more weeks are left in the year? |
| 0:43.9 | Not enough. |
| 0:44.9 | I don't know like six. |
| 0:47.7 | Okay. |
| 0:48.7 | Five or six? |
| 0:49.7 | Well, we're coming down to the wire here in the great page race of 2016. |
| 0:54.6 | Were you aware that you were in the great page race of 2016? |
| 0:57.1 | I wasn't until somebody sent us a Facebook message and said that she had counted up all |
| 1:03.2 | the pages and all the books that each of us had read all year. |
| 1:07.0 | Welcome to Overdo. |
| 1:08.0 | This is a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read. |
| 1:09.5 | My name is Craig. |
| 1:10.5 | My name is Andrew. |
| 1:11.7 | And our lovely listener Melissa, oh, that's a tongue twister, wrote in to let us know. |
| 1:18.6 | And I think she'd mentioned this on the Goodreads group. |
| 1:21.8 | We do have a good read group. |
| 1:23.2 | We haven't talked about it in a bit. |
| 1:25.5 | Yeah. |
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