The Cabin at the End of the World

An entertaining read that was fun and went quick, but didn't break a lot of new ground for me.

I can't help but compare this to the movie (which was also pretty average) and ultimately think the choices the movie made worked better. Leonard's personality also came through much more in the film.

The prose showed occasional flashes, but was ultimately pretty straightforward. The author tried some innovative things with point of view, including narrating the last chapter in third person plural, but I don't think they really paid off in a significant way.

I enjoyed the writers notes at the end about particular symbols and the writer's process, and I wish more books would do that.

If this were a Stephen King book, it would be in about the 40th percentile of Stephen King books.

Good god, I can not finish this thing! I got the audio version and the narrator is awful! She constantly sounds condescending! So I decided to try the old fashioned version and get it from the library. This is just a bad book! The characters are thin and not well developed. All of the personal stories are tacked on and not well thought out. The story changes on a whim to fit a lot of inconsistencies. Save yourself some time and frustration just move on to something better!