After finishing the entire book, I decided that Lull was definitely my favorite (which is also why I chose to discuss that one in class). When I re-read it, and thought about it some more, I was a little confused as to why it became my favorite, and I still haven't really figured out why I like it. I found it interesting that it was a story, within a story, within a story, and I thought it was hilarious that none of the stories had endings (just like all of Link's other stories). Something was different about this one, though. I didn't mind that I was left hanging by Starlight, by the cheerleader, and by Link all in the same story. Does that mean I've accepted Link's style of writing?
I can't decide.
Maybe I liked that I was given some closure at the end of it. Link told us exactly what was going to happen 5 minutes after we finished reading - Ed is going to call Susan back. Now that I think back about it, though, maybe we're supposed to think back to the cheerleaders story once we get to the end. Maybe Susan really is going to contact the Aliens and try to make a new Andrew like in the cheerleader's story! If that is the case, we would still be left hanging by the cheerleader at the end of the story which fits with all of the other stories in the book. Just a thought.
About Me
- Andy Duncan
- I'm a professor of English at Frostburg State University in the western Maryland mountains; a fiction writer whose honors include a Nebula Award, a Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and three World Fantasy Awards; a journalist since age 17; and a lifelong collector of Forteana.
1 comment:
I really liked the story within a story within a story-type structure of Lull as well. It kind of reminded me of when I studied Big Fish my junior year of high school. That story is also sort of a bunch of little stories inside a bigger story. The subject matter was a bit more out there in "Lull", but the way it was all sort of woven together intrigued me.
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