Wow, I haven't read The Group in years. I had forgotten about that book.
This here's a recipe for unpleasantness.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Amy - May 05, 2011 6:31:14 pm PDT #14590 of 28297
Because books.
Gris - May 06, 2011 4:32:23 am PDT #14591 of 28297
Hey. New board.
Does anyone know what book this is describing?
Definitely A Discovery of Witches. My wife loved the book inordinately.
Consuela - May 09, 2011 7:41:27 am PDT #14592 of 28297
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Harry Potter people help me out?
I was listening to the audiobook of Prisoner of Azkaban last night and what's on my iPod ended with the chapter titled "Hermione's Secret", in which Harry & Hermione go back in time to save Buckbeak and Sirius. The very last bit ends with Sirius & Buckbeak flying away.
There is another chapter after that, isn't there?
Dana - May 09, 2011 7:42:33 am PDT #14593 of 28297
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Has to be. Harry says goodbye to Remus, for example.
Consuela - May 09, 2011 8:00:28 am PDT #14594 of 28297
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Harry says goodbye to Remus, for example.
Yeah, that's what I thought. I shall have to wait until I get home to see what's on my hard drive, or if somehow the file with that chapter in it got lost.
I was hoping to start Goblet of Fire during lunch--I guess I can still do that...
Polgara - May 09, 2011 8:04:13 am PDT #14595 of 28297
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
There's also Snape flipping out like a mammal when he realizes Sirius has escaped. Love that part.
Consuela - May 09, 2011 9:08:29 am PDT #14596 of 28297
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'd forgotten, frankly, quite how awful Snape is in this book. There's no "he's just misunderstood" interpretation here--he's petty, vindictive, unprofessional, and abusive; has no ability to consider objectively the possibility that he's wrong, and spends an inordinate amount of time fixated on a nearly 20-year-old grudge.
And people love this character. Want to marry him on the astral plane!
The other issue I've noted is how comprehensively Rowling deconstructs any idea that the adult world can be trusted to implement justice, or protect the innocent. Every institution of the Wizarding world fails Harry and his friends: the school, the criminal justice system, even family.
And of course the Muggle world has failed Harry as well--nobody ever noticed that a pre-teen was half-starved and abused in the Dursley household? Nobody ever called CPS?
It's really a terribly depressing indictment of human institutions.
erikaj - May 09, 2011 9:12:40 am PDT #14597 of 28297
Always Anti-fascist!
The one thing in the world David Simon has in common with JKR. Aw, dag, now I want to see a struggling urban wizard, or like a story where those kids in season 4 of The Wire were right and people were being turned in the vacants.
Jessica - May 09, 2011 9:25:41 am PDT #14598 of 28297
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I haven't reread a Harry Potter book since they came out, but IIRC Snape in book 4 was pretty severely rewritten to make his character match up with the movie version.
Consuela - May 09, 2011 9:27:37 am PDT #14599 of 28297
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
IIRC Snape in book 4 was pretty severely rewritten to make his character match up with the movie version.
Damn the casting, then. As he is in book 3, he's the perfect encapsulation of the untrustworthy authority.