Faith ,'End of Days'
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."
Terrance Rafferty, who does a terrible job of writing about sf in the NY Times, writes about the state of zombie literature [link] I don't think he read the right books, which is par for the course.
Also, everyone knows zombies arose in response to Fox News.
My friend's book is in that! That being The Reapers are the Angels.
Before I went to go work on the ship, my friend gave me her copy of A Soldier of the Great War to borrow, as I'd liked Winter's Tale so much. I didn't have a lot of time to read on the ship, and it was a LOT of book to get through, so it didn't become a top priority.
I finally finished it! I didn't love it quite as much as I loved Winter's Tale, but wow, Mark Helprin can certainly tell a story.
Has anyone else read it?
Also, everyone knows zombies arose in response to Fox News.
I hadn't really thought about it like that, but you're right!
Real life places that inspired literary classics.
That's cool! I admit, though, that I was hoping for a real-life Manderley.
Wow, the end of OOTP is such a clusterfuck. It's like ten pages of Dumbledore saying HOLY SHIT I FUCKED UP I'M SORRY DUDE.
like ten pages of Dumbledore saying HOLY SHIT I FUCKED UP I'M SORRY DUDE.
Which would be more meaningful in retrospect if he didn't just continue on with the information-withholding and failure to trust Harry with his plans and ideas for the next year.
I kind of look at Dumbledore's failure to tell Harry anything the same way I look at Gandalf just not summoning the eagles to fly Frodo over to Mount Doom, drop the ring, and get home in time for tea. It sucks for the character, but it's the catalyst for the series.
It sucks for the character, but it's the catalyst for the series.
I do think it's thematically consistent, since so much of the series is basically hammering in that Harry cannot rely on any adults or adult institutions to protect him. However, I distrust plots that rely on someone not passing along important information--to me that's the sign of a weak plot.