Talk:The Long Night of New Year's 2015/@comment-25021327-20150102011911

I really liked this. It has a more unique feel than a lot of the stuff I've been reading lately. I enjoyed the nonlinear narrative here. Sometimes that stream-of-consciousness feel is tought to effectively pull off, and maybe it didn;t work for some readers, but I liked it here.

The descriptions of the friends' phone conversation seemed organic to me. Again, it may not resonate with soe folks, but I felt that I could relate to the inconsequential silliness of a role-play phone conversation. At the risk of sounding like a sissy, I thought it was kind of sweet.

And that was a nice juxtaposition to the dreamlike visions that followed. And those descriptions, in conjunction with the general tone of the story are what made this unique and enjoyable for me. I got a drunken/dreamlike sense of danger, paradoxically mixed with contentment, or resolve with what cannot be controlled. There is no overt description of the fear that these hallucinations would induce in a fully conscious person. This made the creepyness more cerebreal, and interesting than having a skeleton pop out (which can work too XD)

As I type this I have only just read this once, and I imagine I will go through it a few more times in the near future. I can;t help but feel that I've missed some subtext in my first reading (I wanted to give a review of my first impressions though). One thing I noted was that a number of events occur a 51 minutes past the hour... hhhmmm.... perhaps there is a meaning there? I'll keep it in mind.

Anyway, I'm rambling. I hope this review at least made some degree of sense, and wasn;t too filled with doubletalk and convoluted babble. If that is the case then...

tl;dr  I liked it!