[Kibs] Finished: THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Paul Tremblay
- From: Mike <mike@xxxxxxxx>
- To: Kibs Literary Treehouse <kibs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 16:28:13 +0100
* Mike wrote on 2020-10-03 13:31 +0100:
Started reading THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Paul Tremblay on
2020-09-23.
Finished reading THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Paul Tremblay on
2020-10-01.
I really enjoyed this. I was slow to start it, but once I got into it,
I read it in two long sittings.
It's more tense than scary, but it's effective and authentic. It
manages to convey a convincing, open-ended situation with the right
amount of uncertainty and lack of total closure that adds realism.
Some of the writing tries a little too hard. I nearly laughed reading
the line, "The gray sky is a smear, a NEUROMANCER sky, dead and
anachronistic". It works best when Tremblay doesn't try to be too arch
or literary; the more grounded it stays the better it is.
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MIKE, KIBS Member #2
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