![]() ![]() The dynamic is fairly applicable to any sibling relationship, and probably would have spoken to me in elementary school. And while I wouldn't call the characters deep or anything, he uses the cabin as a device to shed (see what I did there?) light on the strained relationship between the twins (Barry is bossy and mean, and cry-baby Larry feels like the unwanted brother). ![]() William Sleator has a lot of fun with the time-twisting cabin, making an effort to explain the rules governing it and figure out creative ways to play with them (You hear that, LOST? If you are going to introduce a Mystical Cabin of Mystery, do something interesting with it!). Everyone assumed Uncle Cracker was crazy (the rooms full of mutant, taxidermied skeletons put no one's mind at ease?), but H/B soon discover he might not have been nuts after all when then find the keys to a strange cabin on the premises where time seems to function. ![]()
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