Wednesday, January 23, 2008
There is Hope for Fantasy in my Life!!!
I have found that I have fallen "in like" with Links writing style. I say "like" because I am still open to being swept off of my feet by some other fantasy writing author; ) I cant give me heart to one writer just yet! So anywho... the fact that her style is so unpredictable makes your efforts to put down the book almost impossible (notice I said almost:). Her story "Some Zombie Contingency Plans," to me, has the most unexpected ending that you would likely expect to see in one of her stories. The amazing part is that for all of her stories it seems like she never runs out of things to pull out of her bag of originality! When I signed up for this class I didn't know if I would really find the stuff that we read interesting but now because of Link, I am looking on the optimistic side : )
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If you like Link's whit and sense of humor you will really enjoy the Terry Pratchett book we read later in the year. Imagine Link with a plot.
Haha. "Link with a plot." I'm really looking forward to that. But yeah, her style is definitely growing on me as well. In fact, I think f I ever picked up one of her books and found it had a comprehensible beginning, middle, and end, I most likely wouldn't enjoy it. I think it's funny to imagine now getting upset at her plot-having. Go figure.
I can certainly appreciate her originality, but at the same time, her brand of storytelling is not something that I would normally seek out. I think it's awesome (although sometimes a little disturbing) when I wake up from a really trippy dream and then get to try and puzzle though it. But somehow, I don't get the same sense of satisfaction from reading someone else's construction. I mean, dreams are experiences, and I can only notice the lack of extra sensory details that would normally be present in dreams.
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