Re: [bookclub] John's Useless Objects

[cerutti@together.net (Neil Cerutti)]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 20:56:56 -0700, Mike Noel posted:
>I was also intrigued by the oven door.  Why was it stuck?  I
>mean, the author could have let the door open only to reveal an
>empty oven.  Or the stove could have been just a range top with
>no oven.  Or it could have been sealed shut from all the greasy
>food that was cooked there. But why was it possible to open it
>just a crack?

It was an (ill-advised in my opinion) red-herring joke. The first
time I played it I got terribly confused by the oven, which in
one sentence "doesn't even work" and in another smells of "cooked
fish, possibly herring." At the time, I was on the look-out for
anything out of the ordinary, and I wasted a lot of time on the
oven.

>Overall I thought the game was great and entertaining.  Certainly it
>wasn't a literary work.  But that was fine with me.

I didn't like the sudden appearance and summary dispatch of the
goblin. As a puzzle it was lame and it in my opinion didn't fit
in with the other puzzles.

An interesting problem John created  for himself is the
appearance of the fire-ring, which logically should have allowed
wandering around all over the snowed-in town.

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