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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I watched the movie of this book before I read it, and honestly I didn't like it as much as I thought I would, so I wasn't expecting this book to be better, but actually it was! Obviously it was super-intense, just like the movie, but I felt like things made more sense in the book than they did in the movie (I totally missed the link to the four horseman of the apocalypse, for example). And as bleak as the ending was, I actually preferred it to the movie ending, i.e., Wow! I’m not sure why this book has such terrible reviews. I guess if you go into reading this expecting a certain type of story you might be left frustrated but I had zero expectations and zero knowledge of this author. I grabbed this book from the store one day because I forgot all my others at home and needed something to read. On the surface, this is a sci-fi/horror/thriller...but underneath it is an extremely emotional story. I try really hard not to give anything away in my reviews so excuse the vagueness but this story was about relationships, family dynamics, love, sacrifice, spirituality. It deals with questions and situations that seem impossible to answer. And I love how you see so many different viewpoints. There is a lot that gets left unanswered, which usually irritates me, but it works here. I will be seeking out this author again. This was an excellent book. Closer to 2.5 I guess but "it was ok" sums up my thoughts about it better. The first third of this novel did a good job of putting me on the edge of my seat: it was unnerving and built in a solid, suspenseful way. After that, however, it got repetitive, and the long flashbacks to Andrew and Eric's pasts felt kind of dry, like an easy way to try and get the reader to sympathize with them. The pacing is just downright all over the place and bounces from slowwww periods of nothing to fast-paced running around. I will say this is kind of far outside of genres I normally reach for, and I just picked this up for a Sunday binge read, so I'm definitely not the target audience. It was a good idea, but despite the wild moments of suspense and bloodshed, it ended up being dull and just nothing special. I really had to push myself to get through this book. That's not really a knock against it, the technical skill involved in writing it was really impressive and I like Tremblay's overall style of writing, but it was just very underwhelming to start, I think. The characters were interesting, though, and the end was tragic in the sort of open-ended way I find interesting. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts adds an inventive twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense that recalls Stephen King's Misery , Ruth Ware's In a Dark, Dark Wood, and Jack Ketchum's cult hit The Girl Next Door. Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, "None of what's going to happen is your fault". Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: "Your dads won't want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world." Thus begins an unbearably tense, gripping tale of paranoia, sacrifice, apocalypse, and survival that escalates to a shattering conclusion, one in which the fate of a loving family and quite possibly all of humanity are entwined. The Cabin at the End of the World is a masterpiece of terror and suspense from the fantastically fertile imagination of Paul Tremblay. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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