Paul Tremblay
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- Jones, P.T.
Tremblay, Paul G. - Geburtstag
- 1971-06-30
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- male
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- USA
- Geburtsort
- Aurora, Colorado
- Ausbildung
- Providence College
University of Vermont (MS|Mathematics) - Berufe
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- Stephen Barbara (Inkwell Management)
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- Paul G. Tremblay (born June 30, 1971) is an American author and editor of contemporary horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction. He is also a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards.
Tremblay was born in Aurora, Colorado, and raised in Massachusetts. He attended Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1993. He obtained his master's degree in mathematics from the University of Vermont in 1995.
In summers between college, Tremblay worked at the Parker Brothers factory in Salem, Massachusetts, primarily in the warehouse and assembly lines. After graduation, he began teaching high school mathematics and coaching junior varsity basketball at a private school outside Boston, Massachusetts called Saint Sebastian’s School, where he still teaches today.
In 2015, Focus Features optioned his novel A Head Full of Ghosts. It is in development with Team Downey (Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey) and Allegiance Theater (Dan Dubiecki) as producers. FilmNation acquired the rights to The Cabin at the End of the World in April 2018, before its publication.
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There is much to say about this novel, for the good and the bad.
Interesting story, a bit clumsily developed, with pointless circonvolutions (what is the insistence on Merry's use of signs in one of the final chapters for?? It does not add anything...) and an "ambiguous" final twist that left me totally, jaw-dropping disappointed. It's a pity, because there is some gold in the novel, nearly always betrayed in the realisation. For example, the treatment of the unreliable narrator as potentially disturbed adult recalling her eight-year-old self's memories is fairly good for a while, until the writer seems forgetting about the double layer of treacherous memories and plunges into a child's narrative. A good one, ok, but it's not what we traded in for, when we suspended incredulity about the adult character recalling her (slippery) past. The final chapters are terrifying, except that, as I anticipated, the very last lines wreck it all with a Dr Caligari trick (see the final scene of the movie, but beware, this is a half-spoiler). I can't recall any moment in the narrative that prepared this plot twist, unless we accept that the unreliable one is not the narrator, but the writer! And we WILL NOT accept it, will we?
Much to the writer's honour, there is some great insight about the shifty nature of mental illness, the misoginist violence in-built into normalisation rituals and catholic symbolism, and the cultural and psychological vacuum and desperation in which reality TV, or trash TV in general, find their way into people's lives. I did not have to push my suspension of disbelief too far to believe that this "normal" family with an unoccupied father on the verge of dropping into religious mania had ended up acting in a monstrous exorcism reality show, in order to survive economically their elder daughter's psychiatric care. Well done.
It's a pity that many interesting reflections were delivered pedantically through the means of a nauseating horror-zine blog commenting on the now-vintage reality show. It was supposed to leave us with the doubt that all the experience was a fake, I suppose. I do suppose, because the blog chapters totally failed at whatever they were aimed, unless they were precisely aimed at annoying the reader. Maybe part of this disgust, I have to admit, is due to the audiobook reader's treatment of the blog chapters.
Which brings me to the review of the audiobook quality: folks, don't do that to yourselves. The narrator spoiled the book for me. She even read male voices with, oh boy, fake male voices. The protagonist's father sounds as a mix of Homer Simpson and Goofy. 1 star to the audiobook.
All in all, a flawed book worth reading, as many I encountered lately.
Just stay away from the audiobook read by Joy Osmansky.… (mehr)
Interesting story, a bit clumsily developed, with pointless circonvolutions (what is the insistence on Merry's use of signs in one of the final chapters for?? It does not add anything...) and an "ambiguous" final twist that left me totally, jaw-dropping disappointed. It's a pity, because there is some gold in the novel, nearly always betrayed in the realisation. For example, the treatment of the unreliable narrator as potentially disturbed adult recalling her eight-year-old self's memories is fairly good for a while, until the writer seems forgetting about the double layer of treacherous memories and plunges into a child's narrative. A good one, ok, but it's not what we traded in for, when we suspended incredulity about the adult character recalling her (slippery) past. The final chapters are terrifying, except that, as I anticipated, the very last lines wreck it all with a Dr Caligari trick (see the final scene of the movie, but beware, this is a half-spoiler). I can't recall any moment in the narrative that prepared this plot twist, unless we accept that the unreliable one is not the narrator, but the writer! And we WILL NOT accept it, will we?
Much to the writer's honour, there is some great insight about the shifty nature of mental illness, the misoginist violence in-built into normalisation rituals and catholic symbolism, and the cultural and psychological vacuum and desperation in which reality TV, or trash TV in general, find their way into people's lives. I did not have to push my suspension of disbelief too far to believe that this "normal" family with an unoccupied father on the verge of dropping into religious mania had ended up acting in a monstrous exorcism reality show, in order to survive economically their elder daughter's psychiatric care. Well done.
It's a pity that many interesting reflections were delivered pedantically through the means of a nauseating horror-zine blog commenting on the now-vintage reality show. It was supposed to leave us with the doubt that all the experience was a fake, I suppose. I do suppose, because the blog chapters totally failed at whatever they were aimed, unless they were precisely aimed at annoying the reader. Maybe part of this disgust, I have to admit, is due to the audiobook reader's treatment of the blog chapters.
Which brings me to the review of the audiobook quality: folks, don't do that to yourselves. The narrator spoiled the book for me. She even read male voices with, oh boy, fake male voices. The protagonist's father sounds as a mix of Homer Simpson and Goofy. 1 star to the audiobook.
All in all, a flawed book worth reading, as many I encountered lately.
Just stay away from the audiobook read by Joy Osmansky.… (mehr)
This just didn't work for me. I like the idea of introducing ambiguity about whether Mercy is actually a vampire or if Art's imagination is just working overtime to explain why his life isn't going to plan. But Mercy's snarky commentary undermines any opportunity for real suspense or horror in the book. That, combined with the author's choice to clarify the answer to whether Mercy (and by extension Art) is actually a supernatural creature versus choosing to leave us wondering ultimately just left me disinterested and unsatisfied. It's a shame because I enjoyed Cabin at the End of the World and was hoping for a similar experience here.… (mehr)
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. And as bleak as the ending was, I actually preferred it to the movie ending.
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I really wanted to love this book, but it dragged for me. It's definitely a slow burn horror novel, but it was just a little too slow for me. The time jumping was also a little confusing for me, so I found myself struggling to get through the book at some points. However, it also pulled me in at other parts. Once the intrigue starts, it's difficult to put down! The ending was what really turned it around for me.