Talk:The Maze/@comment-7706473-20130722050907

Really enjoyable - I think we're all scared of carnival games, or if not, we should be. The idea of someone or some thing dressing up as a human being is weird enough, if you think about it. And mazes are both awesome and terrifying. I still remember getting lost in a certain farm maze as a kid, ah - happy memories!

That being said - I felt we never really got to know either the narrator or Amy, so their deaths weren't too tragic or horrifying. Most of the horror came form the constant feel the nightmare in the maze was being narrated to others, and the increasing sense of isolation and resignation. And those were pretty good, iffn I do say myself.

One thing I caught that I really liked, intentional or no, is how our narrator doesn't even *think* of taking the small boy with them. At that point, they don't really care about finding Amy - and perhaps not even that, despite what they say. How wonderfully brutal, I felt.

At first, I felt the ending was a bit abrupt and wondered how we were reading this - and then I thought, "Hey! Maybe the narrator is telling us the story while we stand next to them, so far gone that they don't even realize we've come into the maze as well!" and then the ending was perfect.

Spearmint, for a delightful thrill ride that suits the balmy summer weather.