Maybe it because you first read Narnia when a child and Potter as an adult?
Maybe. But maybe it is because Lewis writes better prose and makes his world more convincing. The point of world building is not necessarily to have super-detailed layout of how economics and ecology and politics and everything happen in your world, thought that is one way to do it. It is to give the reader the impression that what they see if your world is a glimpse of a much bigger world where politics and economics and ecology are going on in ways they are not seeing. It is to give the illusion of a world, which need not be photorealistic or logically consistent. (Logical inconsistency is a flaw but not necessarily a fatal one, any more than a magician's patter has to be a marvel of logic and formal argument.) Lewis is , IMO, a better magician a better illustionist.
Oh, I want this book bag so much. SO much.
Damn you have to MAKE it? I was totally going to ask for that for my birthday!
Awesomesauce!
BTW, Amy, I requested COLD KISS at my library and it's on order!
psst ... I spotted a copy of Deadline on the shelf at Books-A-Million yesterday.
I heard that somewhere else too! Tsk, tsk. That skews the sales numbers.
Oh, and since I know there are fans here: Mark has begun reading His Dark Materials.
I'm so confused. In his last Infinite Jest post he said he shouldn't go so long in between reviews but now he's picking up another series?
And after HDM, he's doing
Lord of the Rings,
and after that, he's doing
Sandman
!
I finished
Chamber of Secrets
last night. Random thoughts:
If Hagrid was at Hogwarts fifty years ago, that would put him in his early sixties. I always imagined him younger for some reason. Voldemort, too, would be in his sixties. Ralph Fiennes does not look sixty. Wait, what the hell, he's fifty? He doesn't even look that!
Remember that time Harry Potter killed a basilisk when he was TWELVE? Eat your heart out, Kvothe.
Oh man, Ron/Hermione is so blindingly obvious now. I'd say 90% of the time, if not 100% of the time, if someone is concerned about Hermione or worried about Hermione or asking about Hermione, it's Ron, not Harry.
On the other hand, Harry/Ginny is weird right now given that they meet when she's a total Harry fangirl.
TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE = I AM LORD VOLDEMORT still blows my goddamn mind.
I want Mark to read All Of The Books but Infinite Jest is the only one he's started so far that I haven't already read and my clever "I'll read along with Mark" idea is more impractical each time I have to renew this libary book. Perhaps I should go ahead and buy it. I first tried to borrow my brother's book and he looked at me like I wanted to take away his puppy. Am I going to end up wanting an Infinite Jest of my very own?
