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"Night On Fire" by SR (cybersex)
"Night On Fire" by SR (parasol_60@yahoo.com). This review is the personal opinion of Kim, who can be contacted at ghost@nym.alias.net Every so often a story will come along that is almost impossible to review in the conventional manner. I have found this story by SR to be a case in point. It's basically the transcript of a chat room session between various folk that wander in and out of the conversation, in the usual semi- incoherent manner that are chat rooms. It's almost impossible to tell if this is a real transcript or a cleverly written copy of one. Not that I'm a real expert, as I've only tried chat rooms a few times and found them unbearably tedious places to be. So for somebody to create a flawless reproduction of something I find numbingly boring is perhaps unfortunate. It is for this reason that I will not give any ratings. I don't think the normal rules of grammar and plotting have any meaning. And, as I've said, I think to give a reviewers appeal score to something this alien to me, would be disingenuous to say the least. Even for a normal chat-roomer (hey I just made up a word!), I would think it's a bit like watching other people play chess. Fine for the most ardent fans, but hardly a spectator's sport for the rest of us. At nearly fifty pages of this stream of consciousness I was beginning to fall asleep, and completely lost any interest in the comings and goings of these strangers. However, right at the end, it picked up enormously as two of the women snuck off to a private chat session. Then the conversation became much more animated and interesting. I've no idea if SR is male or female, but whoever wrote the last section sure has a good understanding of female thinking and sensibilities. Ratings for "Night On Fire" Athena (technical quality): - (Brilliant copy of the real thing) Venus (plot & character): - (Not remotely relevant) Kim (appeal to reviewer): - (Liked the last section, bored silly by the first) |