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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."
But saying Giles "had to leave" for any narrative reason is mis-stating things.
I don't think so. In the classic "hero's journey" the hero must separate from their mentor. This is the metaphorical aspect of the narrative, and I do think that even if ASH didn't leave then his role would have to be diminished for Buffy to emerge. So that she's not taking orders from him.
Was there any intention for him to leave if ASH hadn't?
I don't know.
Anyone here through A Storm of Swords? Ye gods, my head is about to explode.
but because he believes the ring was the resurrection stone and was so tempted by that power that he put it on?
That's true, but I found that weakness endearing, since he wanted to see his sister and, I suspect, ask her forgiveness.
I'm only about 20% into Storm of Swords. These books are so addicting! And horribly, horribly bleak!
I'm just now starting the first one. But I am ready for bleak!
I'll try to not be spoilery, but i'm loving how Book 2 separates so many characters, and then in Book 3 they start coming back together. And the bleak horrors. I did have to just stop and walk away for a few hours after one chapter. But then i went back. These books are an abusive lover.
More Snape: halfway through Goblet of Fire, Snape makes an entirely unwarranted and terribly cruel comment about Hermione's teeth. I'm back to the "People like this guy?" question.
In other news, I'd forgotten how completely isolated Harry gets in this one, because even Ron has turned on him. It's really kind of painful to hear. But you can see the kids getting older, too--they're much more adolescents in this book, even without the minor angst about crush-objects sprinkled through the book. (And I'd forgotten that Ron had a crush on Fleur first, who ends up with his brother Bill.)
The other bad side of audiobooks, of course, is that I cannot flip back easily to the part where Ron & Harry make up fortunes for themselves to see how many of them really come true. I'm thinking rather a lot.
I'm almost done with the first audiobook, but one thing is filling me with rage: why is there no musical cue that the CD is over? It just flips over to the first track, and it takes me a few seconds to realize that it sounds terribly familiar, and then I've lost my place. Do most audiobooks have a signal that the CD is done? Why don't these, for crying out loud?
Can't help you, P-C, I'm listening to them on my iPod. Much easier, gotta say.
Do most audiobooks have a signal that the CD is done?
IME, no. I listen to a lot of audiobooks in the car during my commute (which isn't short). Most just flip back to the first track. Some have a short "This is the end of disc #" message, but that's probably around 30% of the ones I've listened to.