Well this book was over too fast. If I didn't have to go to work, it would have been a one-sitting-read. It pulls your in right away and keeps pulling you along until all of a sudden its over and you are sitting there thinking, "what just happened?" The characters in the books were fantatic. The narrator was so well written and all the Hempstock women were phenomenal. The world created was so real and so strange all at the same time and it was written in the obscure "Neil Gaiman" way that leaves you convinced and confused all at the same time. One of my favorite parts was at then end when the narrator finds out that he has come back over the years to Lettie's Ocean and has remembered, but upon leaving forgets the story, and his part in it, until the next time. It leaves you with a wonderful sense of the circling story and wondering how many times this same story has been remembered, and told. Crazy cool abstract feeling of time. And what an amazing nostalgic look back at childhood...and though this "forgetting" was fabricated by otherwordly 'not-really-witches', how many magical stories from our past have we forgotten? Haunting to think about. I highly recommend this read.