Dark Matter

This was an excellent spooky tale which successfully melded a poignant personal story with the wilderness-awe style of horror seen in classics like The Wendigo and The Willows. The journal narration is effective, and Paver goes beyond using it simply as a first-person view. Jack's uses his journal to buck himself up, ventilate stress, explore his thoughts, and disclose secrets he can't otherwise admit to himself.

I listened to the audio book, and Jeremy Northam does an amazing job. It was a pleasure to hear him evoke Jack's progression from a disillusioned, resentful clerk to adventurer, to someone who views himself as half-desperate and half-heroic, in extremely trying, terrifying circumstances.