I'm in the vast minority with this one. I loved it, but that's probably because like the poster on page 1, it resonated strongly with me. Some similarities between my life and this story:
- I went to college in the mid 1990s
- I was strongly involved with the college radio
- I was good friends with potheads(I was not, it does nothing to or for me), and we all hung around a lot
- We used to hang out/explore the tunnels beneath campus
- One of my best friends lost his girlfriend/fiancee to a drunk driver
- Another friend had a HUGE crush on friend 1, and doted on him endlessly, though he did not notice.
- To that same end, he did not have and did not want any relationship lasting more than 2 weeks for the 5 years after that.
- Friend 2 often dyed her hair green, among other colors.
Eventually, friend 1 went off to Japan to start his life fresh, and has since gotten married to a woman over there, and come back to the US. Friend 2 was in contact with both of us for the first 5 years, then less so after Friend 1 went to Japan, and when he announced he was getting married, she fell off both of our radar screens almost immediately. So yes, you could say I found this story interesting and engaging, and put my 2 friends faces immediately on Ziggy and Liam.
Anyway, 15 years does seem a bit long, I would have bought 5 much more readily. To those who were wondering why Ziggy was still smoking pot and hosting a college radio show, and still wearing her jacket from 15 years ago, it is because she was running around in circles, not getting anywhere just as much as Liam was getting nowhere. They were a star system in human microcosm. Ziggy was tidally locked moon, orbiting around the planet Liam, only seeing him, while he was tidally locked himself to the dead star named Jackie, aware of Ziggy's presence, but only when she related to the relationship between himself and Jackie.