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I mean, it doesn't leave much room for the rest of the novel, but maybe that's the point.
by enkid 4y ago
I mean, it doesn't leave much room for the rest of the novel, but maybe that's the point.
- viridian 4y agoMakes for a good cold open where you want to inform the reader of some detail that the book's characters aren't privy to.
- sph 4y agoIt's very post-modern. You start with the ending, and then the rest of the book is how everything that happened led to her untimely demise.
- permo-w 4y agoit’s barely post-modern. it’s a boring and overused tv plot technique that makes me groan whenever I come across it. build up excitement, tension, drama, create an interesting scene, then throw it all away with a “how did we get here” and a roll back in time
- sph 4y agoPost-modernism is 50 years old, and refers to the modernity of the first half of that century. Of course it feels cliché and outdated in 2022.
- rintakumpu 4y agoYes. And I was so happy when Squid Game didn't do that.
- idontpost 4y ago
- BellsOnSunday 4y agoYep. That's me. I bet you're wondering how I got myself into this situation...
- willi59549879 4y agothree weeks earlier... i don't like when stories start that way
- bearmode 4y agoMaybe the novel's about the bears?
- bryanrasmussen 4y agoSadly the girl was not just any wanderer in the woods, she was the daughter of the psychotic and vengeful huntsman, thus began a game pitting bears and man in a contest for supremacy that would change the enchanted forest - forever.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoThe bears being pursued by humans because they ate the girl, and therefore having to leave their nice home and live life on the run.
- salawat 4y agoStarring Liam Neeson as the hunter... Goldilocks They ate his little girl... Now he's pissed. Coming to a theater near you. Plot twist: Was a frame job by the Big Bad Wolf.