Tue 14 Aug 2007
In which Stuart and Elauthir are forced into a final confrontation with the Prodromos.
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August 14th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Wow! Zan’s been busy! is this really IT? For the answers to this and other questions I’ll be staying up late. again. I have to know.
August 15th, 2007 at 12:26 am
Don’t panic.
Several story lines came together most satisfactorily - but not all.
The most chilling line in Book 8 has been the relentless repetition of, “This is the final book of the Corridor,” am I right? And there have been scenes worthy of medical student humor.
Hmm. I’m putting medical student together with pig farmer and getting - veterinarian?
August 15th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
When you first suggested you would be releasing this, you said you had written a book in your twenties “so it wasn’t a wasted decade”. How right you were.
Complexity on a baroque scale; unexpected twists and turns, the audience sold dummies, epic horror and yet it all hangs together in such a way that we only realise at the end we should have known all along what was going on. A tour de force, Zan.
August 17th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Zebulon, I wish you’d post more often, you are raising the tone considerably. The comments I make tend to be … lighter, and I’m glad that this deserving story gets more serious and erudite compliments as well. (We could do it too, Vibeen, but I for one do not tend to think that way. ;D)
“When you first suggested you would be releasing this, you said you had written a book in your twenties “so it wasn’t a wasted decadeâ€. How right you were.” What can we do but agree? (Clearly Zan was out gathering experiences to put in his novel, that could have taken a whole decade by itself.)
I hope you posted that second paragraph also at Podcast Pickle.
August 18th, 2007 at 11:33 am
What Zebulon said!
Wow!!
August 18th, 2007 at 11:36 am
I just noticed the bookending of the “whispering stone in the mouse/throat” theme, which heralded the beginning and end of… something.
August 18th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Hey, The Corridor has its own domain name now! That’s new for me, at least. Will there be a “Corridor 2?”
August 20th, 2007 at 8:41 am
Thank you Gail and Vibeeen for your kind words. I did as suggested on Podcast Pickle.
This is the first .info website I think I’ve seen.
I’m sitting here as I type, recalling a black and white film shown on daytime TV that I watched one day long ago when I was off school sick. It was a detective story.
It was a really good, exciting story, and you couldn’t guess how it was going to end or who the murderer was. Right at the end though, a character we hadn’t met before in the story at all suddenly appeared under arrest, admitting to the police “Yes, alright, I did it.” and that was it - The End. I was so indignant I remember leaping out of bed shouting at the TV, spilling my glass of water.
What I didn’t realise till later was that the film had been cut to fit into a one-hour TV slot. Whoever did the cutting had just cut out the last 30 minutes before the final scene.
Not that I am suggesting for one moment that The Corridor will end as poorly as that film did, but ever since I have found it particularly difficult to comment meaningfully on the content of a story before having heard it all.
It is possible to know if you like it or not as it goes along, though, and I do, very much.