Three people are employed as caretakers in a mothballed research center somewhere in the arctic. They are supplied by helicopter once a week, are cautioned against going outside, and spend their days doing make-work jobs like checking the doors to see if they work, or chairs to see if they are sittable.
Thirty-eight pages into this book, that is described
as “mesmerizing” on the cover, it becomes just plain numbing. The characters are semi-zombies, the setting
is bleak, and the dialogue is stiff. Life
is too short and the number of available books too large to keep reading one
that fails to interest the reader. I found
myself not really caring whether there was something in the snow or not. Now it might get better later, but I am not inclined to wait that long. If you
wish to discover more about The Thing in the Snow, go for it. It is back
in the library.
Jim De Young
12/22/22
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