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When we first started reading Jennifer Egan’s novel I really was not all that impressed. However, since we have finished it has kind of grown on me like a fungus. I think it might also be because I am reading at the same time I am trying to get through Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans , and to say that this novel is an easier read, is a very big understatement. However, at the end of the novel I did feel a little disappointed when it came to the plot. I felt that for me there were a few loose ends I would have enjoyed being tied up at the end of the narrative. First off, I wondered how deep the affair was between Ann and Mick? Or, if there even was ever an affair? I had this whole theory that Mick was going to end up being Benjy’s father and that was going to destroy the relationship between everyone in the keep. This obviously did not come true, and I was just a little disappointed. I also wondered if there was ever an affair between Ann and Mick. It seemed to me that Ray might have just written that little piece in there to serve as a parallel to Ray and Holly’s relationship. Two people that really cannot be together, but still have feelings for one another and are forced by circumstance to not explore those deeper feelings. Also, we never get to find out what happens to Holly after she takes a swim in the imagination pool. To me, that is the biggest load of garbage I have ever read. I want to know if the damn pool actually works, and Egan can’t even tell me that. I know the whole you have to imagine an ending for yourself bullhucky, but I am not buying it, Come on Jenn throw me a bone once and awhile here.
Just as a sidenote, did anyone else go to the website? I visited it when I was half asleep the other morning and I almost thought the Keep was a real place for a couple minutes, it is kind of a creepy webpage in my opinion.
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