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Chargement... The cabin at the end of the world a novel (édition 2018)par Paul Tremblay
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 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. The award winning novel, The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay spins a terrifying story by turning the standard home invasion horror plot on its head with an apocalyptic twist. Yet at the same time it is a chilling portrait of everyday evil. It's also a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense that recalls works like Stephen King’s Misery. The Cabin at the End of the World plays out at a break-neck pace, with its events taking place over the course of one frightening day. We’re introduced to a seven-year-old girl named Wen, adopted from China by a gay couple (Daddy Eric and Daddy Andrew). Wen is an inquisitive kid who takes the family’s vacation to off-the-grid New Hampshire seriously, studying grasshoppers and having fun being away from school. While she’s out collecting bugs, she’s approached by a large man named Leonard, who tells her that he wants to be her friend, and that he and his friends need to have a chat with the family. She flees to the house, and her parents try unsuccessfully to keep the four people — Leonard, Redmond, Sabrina, and Adriane — out. Once the four invaders are inside, they tell the frightened family that they don’t want to hurt them, but they have an important mission: one member of the family must be voluntarily sacrificed. If they don’t, the apocalypse will come. What makes this book truly chilling is that The Cabin at the End of the World never really spells out whether or not the supposed cultist group really are having supernatural visions, or if it’s just people doing horrifying things to others. We never learn the truth. The invaders claim to have come together after having visions of the cabin, meeting on an internet forum before uniting to carry out their God-given task. When their victims don’t believe them, Leonard shows television footage of a tsunami, saying that the disaster is proof that their story — implausible as it is — is true. The family is appalled at the idea of sacrificing one of its members, but the horror is accompanied by some doubt: what if something terrible does happen if they refuse? We are left with many questions. Are the crazed home invaders who met on an Internet forum for like-minded conspiracy theorists just a sick cult that have been fed misinformation? Is some higher power really speaking to them? Is it all a stand-in for Trump and his followers? The answers to these questions, in the end, don't come, and don't matter. None of it matters. It's fight or flight. What matters, when the world is so damn insane around you, is trying to survive and trying to fight for the ones you love. What matters is walking "down the road even if it flooded by raging waters or blocked by fallen trees." This is highly relevant and disturbing story; one that is reflect of our current age- an age of bigotry, violence, untruth, and catalytic disasters. It's horrific and violent but it's message is one of survival in the name of love. I think in our apocalyptic times, this is the message we need. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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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. ( )