Comments on: PodCastle 044: Immersed in Matter

By: Lauretta

Lauretta — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:46:23 +0000

Lovely. I enjoyed it a lot.

By: Blaine Boy

Blaine Boy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:33:32 +0000

Ships borne endlessly on into the past (yes, I just read *The Great Gatsby* for the first time). The past is inescapable and unattainable. I was very interested in the caste system type society of the faeries and the secret lives of the half-humans. The ending was very satisfying to that end then and I liked the idea the kid had at the end. Actually kind of Once and Future King-ish with the different human and animal cultures (especially with Golden going Merlin on us telling the kid to look for strategies). Now that makes you think… is he going to create a revolution for the half-humans for equality, freedom (which he cherished in the horse) etc. etc. etc. I’m no English teacher (I hate writing essays even) and I’m no philosopher. Figure out yourself.

Sincerely with special props to my English teacher Mr. Shakely,
The Blaine Boy

By: carrie

carrie — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:46:44 +0000

I loved everything about this but the horses. Even with all the words dedicated to them, I still couldn’t see the appeal to the main character. The rest–half-bloodery, shape-shifting, undergrounders and abovegrounders, animal language–was intriguing, but ultimately didn’t go anywhere. Whenever the reader said “horses” I wanted to punch the character in the face, so I guess the voice work was really effective!

By: R. J. Walker Miller

R. J. Walker Miller — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:22:14 +0000

This was an excellent story. I’m am an SF, horror, and fantasy writer, and this story was one of the best I have encountered in months. It was purely, wonderfully written, nicely subtle, and magically characterized. It reminded me of what High Fantasy was capable of and made me pull some of my own fantasy out of the desk drawer and begin polishing. Thanks for the entertainment and inspiration! (Oh, and the new website art is great!)

By: Seraph

Seraph — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:46:55 +0000

I didn’t really get this story. The guy wanted a horse - he got a horse - the horse ran away. Really ? Is that it ? Sure, there’s the whole half-human thing simmering away - but that didn’t seem to go very far. Nice reading though !

By: phignewton

phignewton — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:25:46 +0000

i liked this one a lot, it was a good story, good i tell you! um yeh, except for the title… needed more horse innit.

By: Katy

Katy — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:44:23 +0000

I really really wanted to like this story (particularly after getting slapped down for a negative review last time). But, I’m sorry, I had to turn off after fifteen minutes as I was just bored. Partly due to the narrator- can someone narrating a ‘fairy’ tale possibly be “too fey”?
I have really enjoyed this podcast for its airing of stories that are fantasy but also great stories in their own right; not trapped and defined by a rather narrow genre. I hope the recent tales are a temporary diversion and not a whole new direction.

By: Tomo

Tomo — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:43:09 +0000

Thanks for a good story. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I do wish there had been more follow through on what the deal was with the horse and the father, but I still thought it was good.

Thanks.

By: potter

potter — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:10:41 +0000

hi podcastle, thanks again for this free service,
I didnt find this story that bad or any other elf story in the elf month, but when compared to each other has offered a good anthology of different representations of the fey folk.

Thanks again podcastle !!

By: scatterbrain

scatterbrain — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:52:19 +0000

Bleh! It was bad enough wasting quarter of an hour with this one rather than wait the full hour for it to end. It’s been a terrible “Elf month” so far: come on, there must be a good elfpunk story out there!