AFTER READINGI've enjoyed a lot reading this hypertext typical story of nosy people who enters misterious and enchanted houses and the terror takes the place of his logical thought.
Gavin Inglis has achieved his purpose of involving the reader. Probably the most powerful tool to make us feel like being in this house is the plentiful use of adjetives to describe each corner of that gloomy house.
The shame is that the story is unfinished at some points. If we just read the tale once we will get to one of the ends, but if we want to know more and decide to read it though all the possible ways, we will find that many times we return to pages that we have already read and we know what is going to happen. Then the story loses all the interest it could have and we feel neither curious nor intrigued anymore about the final outcome.
Gavin Inglis was interviewed about Under The Ashes in 1996, after that he still added in 1998 a few things to the story, but it seems that he is making a longer parenthesis this time.
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Academic year 2002
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
©Teresa Gómez Sonlleva
Universitat de València Press
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