I think probably my favourite part of this book is its atmosphere. For me, some books have a sort of mental smell, which I associate with the book in my mind. Heinlein's books often smell like my father's garage, all metal and grease. The atmosphere in Into the Forest is so alive it's breathtaking. ...
Starts out well, improves over the first half, then tails off before taking a sharp left at the very end that made me very nearly knock it all the way down to a 2 star read. Plot: Two teenagers try to manage life alone, and then not so alone, in a remote house in the woods after the slow disintegr...
This is a beautifully written book about two teenaged sisters who are left to fend for themselves after surviving the death of both parents. The older sister Nell paints a lovely portrait of a family who live by their own rules, on a large plot of land 30 miles from the nearest town. The girls hav...
yeaa... I audibly said "WHAT THE..!!" when I got to the weird part between the sisters a number of reviewers mentioned. It was most definitely weird but then I remembered how I had read similarly icky material in V.C. Andrews books as a teen. As an adult, I still think the behavior was definitely ta...
This is the sort of book I *ought* to like - female protagonists, interesting premise (two sisters struggle for survival after the civilised world collapses), good writing......but. meh, basically.I didn't warm to the sisters (fatal flaw - if you don't like the characters, you won't want to read the...
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else.From beauty no road leads to reality. ~Hannah ArendtI waited for over a year to read Into the Forest. In that frame of time, I had imagined this idea in my head of a book filled with controversy and chaos. The reality of what this boo...
It's been ten years since I read any Nabokov, but I seem to remember in Look at the Harlequins!, a list of books: they were Nabokov's books, but with alternate, dare I say truer, titles, that they were given in the alternate universe of the novel. Somewhere there is an alternate universe. Th...
This is a hard book for me to rate.On the one hand, it was a page-turner for me (I usually stick to nonfiction), and I felt it was well-written...the turns of phrase and the simplicity of the telling. So I enjoyed that. I liked the premise an awful lot.On the other hand, I'm not sure how much I...li...
Nell and Eve are precocious teenagers living with their anti-establishment parents in the middle of a redwood forest. Their contact with the outside world is sporadic, so it takes them a while to realize that civilization is crumbling around them. Hegland is vague about the reasons--a far-off war,...
This book is weird.For the first 100 pages or so, I loved loved LOVED the story. Its a scary portrayal of the breakdown of America...and the story of a family that lives out in the middle of nowhere, right on the edge of a forest. They end up having to survive on some canned food they harvested from...
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