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Originally Posted by orlok
[...] I also though the plot device used to effect "time travel" was quite clever - sending the pills and birds back, without actually travelling themselves. [...]
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Yes, that was something that I did like. Less dramatic that having to walk around in the past, but definitely clever. And while the dead rat thing was something we knew was coming from the second chapter, I did think it was a neat way to undo the problem.
Speaking of things I did like, or at least found interesting...
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Originally Posted by latepaul
[...][*]the first few historical chapters turning out to be his thesis. This just literally made me stop and go "what?" so that I was thinking about the format of the writing rather than the story.
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I did and didn't like this. It definitely pulled me out of the story when I had to take in that these chapters were supposed to be his thesis (you start trying to re-evaluate your assumptions), but the fact that they also seem to be telling part of the intended story was at the very least interesting. It seemed obvious that you were supposed to take the events seriously, and after getting past the thesis-thing, they continued to be parts that I found more interesting than the contemporary story with the blundering Michael.