You should put that on a spoiler bar for people who havent read it yet. But I can only say one thing... Im glad I stop early when I feel how nonsense it was with everything thats going on..
the novel ended so long ago and had such a terrible ending that people don't care about it anymore... but TBH the novel is great until the end. some people might say it was planned in advance and foreshadowed but thats bullshit. some things that would have contributed to this ending yet means absolutely nothing 1. the professor who predicted everything on tv and kept disappeared when mc found him - this means nothing. the world is set so that people have lots of crazy powers, why would this lead you to think that you're living in the matrix? 2. much later on, mc meets one of the gods of the other world and she talks like a robot and all the sci-fi spaceship stuff is where the gods live. this might give a huge "!" but note that this is in the other world. this might have been the remnants of an older civilization for all we know and the ai somehow got worshipped as a god. does this mean EARTH which is said to be another dimension the entire time is part of this dimension? no. nothing has ever contributed to this thought. the different worlds have always been said to be a different dimension and dimensional gates are required to travel between them. 3. the god's prophet or whatever. even then, earth was always said to be different and this was explicitly said when his sister was about to become one. so yea, the ending came out of the author's ass.
Well I am liking the family dynamics, so mutch posibility for hidden meanings there. Could the father drunkness be a form of grieveing for the 'lost' of his child, the mother bubbly personality a sham to hide her sadnes to the supposedly missing of her elder kid, and the sister revelious act some call for help for losing Oppa??? If the author play this well there is a lot of posibility there.
What I am liking is the obvious parody of the typical family left behind as the MC adventures...like the mom and sis in SSN...or even the mom in "I Never Run Out of Chunni". Who are all hard working, honest and full of classic Korean virtues... What if it was only the upright, and virtuous MC who had been unconsciously steering the family before disappearing? What if it had only been the MC's misunderstanding that his family was good people? And they're really like this...
A little harmless hijack. Agreed, good enough to make it to Jerry Springer... Obviously the author likes Jerry Springer-esque humor.
Considering the context in which SSN was brought up, the conversation on it is totally fair game. Not really hi-jacking. Just a naturally flowing conversation that still holds relevance to this thread.... just less relevance than before but still relevant.
Its wonderful to read that even after a thousand years of indiscriminate killings, he always have a room for porn. I see a man culture right there.
Agreed! The funniest part about this chapter is how, near the bottom, you KNEW exactly what joke was coming...and you couldn't believe it...
Well, looks like you're right for the mom at least. His mom's bubbly personality is a genuine happiness for her son coming back and she's like acting super nice and lovely so that her son doesn't go away anymore? She even stacked a lot of shit out of their door so he wouldn't get out. Lol. His dad seems to not care though. But maybe that's just some surface thing.
I thought in a normal family dynamics, mother is overprotective and gentle, father is gentle inwards and stuff? Either way the family looks fun to be in. No overbearing responsibility and stupid powerplay. A normal, nice, wacky family.