A Home at the End of the World

This novel was decent. I prefer a focus on a smaller time period, but it held my attention. The movie seemed wooden somehow. I never really felt for any of the characters. Clare's horrific bangs distracted me the entire time. I didn't quite believe Bobby as the moldable, brainless character he seemed to be in the book. We never felt Clare's pain in settling for Bobby when she can't have Jonathan. Erich is completely missing from the movie??? Sissy Spacek was decent as Alice, but the mutual dislike with Clare is never touched on. When Alice asks someone to hold her, the movie switches this someone to Bobby. That ruins the whole point of that scene. Alice says in the book that she wants Clare to hold her because she "doesn't want the boys to see her this way." While the movie does capture some of the emotion of the book, overall I would call it a flop. (apparently the box office did too)