Originally posted by: spln
I'm so late here - but if it saves my case the minimal grace - I have tons of pending reads due (don't glare at me Sookie san!) and extensive travels tend to render me somewhat like our man here - the short attention span deal, its few pros and many cons!
So anyway, this is the first I got to reading in a week of wandering much, and I've got to tell you it was ideal this way - an idyllic mind of random thoughts coupled with reading a story with no end and beginning! It's like a chapter in somewhere - like meeting someone on a long distance train and and having a rare good conversation, such that the encounter isn't a priority memory, but one that fades in and out at arbit ppoints of ones life, prompted by arbit references, implying you never really forgot the serendipity of a good conversation with a stranger!
Yeh - that kind of sums up my tide of reactions to this story. =)
In particular, of course I like Armaan - he's a charmer, and when is that not true, sigh! I understand, and at least partially even appreciate where Riddhima comes from - although I have to admit she's not my favorite version of DoD!!!
And then there are the songs! Oh A!!! You brought back such good memories with that, the CCR - school times, like middle school - which doesn't even feel like this same life's memory! and Hoobastank - aha! You know I saw them live in concert once, and their music shall forever remind of that very fun fest evening! so yes - the songs did their job - for the storyline, and just from evoking nostalgia!
I think the best part of your story telling here was the way you connected the pieces - you haven't completed another story of yours yet for me to apply it to the rest - even, and especially pieces like annoying hinges, beat up cars ... and perhaps the one way you're sure to win my heart as a reader is by basing any damn plot in a god foresaken midwest town (or some look alike wherever in the world) and then come true in picturing it! The stark stand out between the east and the mid west , between the west and south, in terms of American territory, is always interesting to incorporate in terms of character evolving - it always works, and god knows how many times it has been put to test! =)
Well, that. Brownie points to you to be inspired by a song for writing a story - I like!!! And brownie points to me to keep my word - however, belatedly =)
hugs,
nj