Stories within Stories within Starless Sea
Two days ago, I finished reading The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern and this lucid dream-like experience that I had while reading, needs to be recorded somewhere. Thus, I decided to write about it. It was my first time reading Erin Morgenstern, and after a really long time I turned towards fiction for reading. The book was briefly reviewed in ‘Magazine’ issued by The Hindu newspaper on Sundays, and, unlike other books the mere theme of this novel caught my eye. Seldom one reads about ‘a different world of stories’ that exists deep within the depths of Earth. In brief, I was ‘awe-struck’! The central story revolves around a guy named ‘Zachary’ who is pursuing masters in ‘emerging media’ who happens to find a mysterious book called ‘Sweet Sorrows’ in the library which somehow leads him to a secret doorway to enter the world of stories (an underground library kind of). Thus, he begins his adventure to fulfill his heroic destiny. ( The downright brevity of the word...