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KJBoldon's avatar

"I’m waiting for an Internet Novel that opens its mouth and speaks with voice of my portal." It sounds like you've got the seeds of that right here, in the preceding paragraphs. And I bet we'd all love to read it.

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Alaina's avatar

This is a great essay. I never thought of these kinds of novels as being gothic, but you've definitely convinced me. My impression of the internet is more or less the same as yours. I'd be curious how many people would credit the internet with saving their lives. I think it would be many. Way more than people might think. Anything you're struggling with, there's likely a space you can find to connect with others. If you've survived abuse, or are in the midst of it, if you have some obscure disease, if you have relationship or family problems, if you're grieving, if you have mental health problems, if you're escaping a cult, etc. The possibility for connection and help is well beyond what was available before the internet. I can't think of any novel that really gets into that... Anyway, this essay is a nice companion to your Millennial Novel essay and I would probably buy (but definitely take out of the library) a book of essays about contemporary fiction were you to write and compile enough of them (it'd be worth buying, I'm just cheap and being honest here).

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