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At first, watching the wheel spin made me wonder if this was just a joke. But the story built from the selected subject had real depth. When it came back as a chilling thriller with a twist that caught me completely off guard, I thought, “Yes, this is it.” Curious? Just give it a read.
Heo A-reun: Roulette Author Heo Ah-reun's Novel Struggle: Subject Matter is Everyday Life, Content is a Thriller
Octopus. Ice cream. Sloth. Linguine with clams. Cotton swabs. Pickled radish. There is a wheel covered with these seemingly unrelated words, and someone watches it anxiously. Heo Areun, known as a “roulette novelist” who writes stories using words suggested by readers on Threads, is a mysterious figure whose name, gender, age, and place of residence are all unknown. The way this author writes is just as mysterious: readers suggest words, those words go onto a spinning wheel, and the selected ones become stories that have never existed before. A collection of those stories has now been published as The Roulette Novelist Heo Areun’s Writing Struggles: Everyday Subjects, Thriller Stories.
Korean title: 돌림판 작가 허아른의 소설 분투기: 소재는 일상 내용은 스릴러
Korean author: 허아른
Korean publisher: 고즈넉이엔티
ISBN-13: 9791163165477
Reviews
At first, watching the wheel spin made me wonder if this was just a joke. But the story built from the selected subject had real depth. When it came back as a chilling thriller with a twist that caught me completely off guard, I thought, “Yes, this is it.” Curious? Just give it a read.
