I got so tired of Harriet Vane feeling so guilty for being innocent. Margery Allingham's characters hold up over time a whole lot better.
You two carried me through that war. Now I need you to carry me just a little bit further. If you can.
Tracy ,'The Message'
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."
Connie Neil - Mar 27, 2006 3:45:04 pm PST #282 of 28061
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Emily - Mar 28, 2006 1:09:11 am PST #283 of 28061
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Tanith Lee has amazing prose style, and I will hear no (okay, I'll hear it, but crankily) criticism of her best work.
I have no idea if I've read her best work. I just know that in everything of hers that I've read (and enjoyed, don't get me wrong), there's a sudden surprising twist! or three within the last ten pages.
Tom Scola - Mar 28, 2006 3:32:31 pm PST #284 of 28061
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Aims - Mar 30, 2006 8:14:02 am PST #285 of 28061
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I have an HP question.
At the end of GoF, he waits for horseless carriages.
At the beginning of OotP, he can see the thestrals.
Was Cedric more dead at the beginning of the term than the end and that's why he could see them? Or did JK pull the thestrals out of her English ass to have Harry have something in common with Luna?
Kathy A - Mar 30, 2006 8:21:56 am PST #286 of 28061
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Or did JK pull the thestrals out of her English ass to have Harry have something in common with Luna?
I'm thinking this. The lack of mention of the thestrals at the end of GoF has bothered me since I first read OOtP, but I'm just handwaving any ass-pulling on JKR's part because she's normally much better at continuity issues than that.
Aims - Mar 30, 2006 8:40:12 am PST #287 of 28061
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I also noticed that Fred and George got their O.W.L. results at the end of their 5th year, but Harry, Ron and Hermione have to wait until mid-July.
§ ita § - Mar 30, 2006 8:40:48 am PST #288 of 28061
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Waiting until July maps better onto my O level experience.
DebetEsse - Mar 30, 2006 2:52:17 pm PST #289 of 28061
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Aimee has just noticed the continuity problems in HP. Has she pondered the problems with the Sirius reference in Book 1? Let's watch and find out.
Yeah, for as much as she talks about having a plan, there are a lot of holes. Mostly little ones, but it is sloppy, IMO.
And I always go with the pulling it out of her ass explanation ("How much credit do we give the creators?" is a common problem I have with trying to predict stuff)
Kathy A - Mar 30, 2006 2:56:51 pm PST #290 of 28061
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I just hope that if she does the "Encyclopedia of Harry Potter" as she mentioned as a possibility back when HBP was released (and I really hope she does--awesome way to share backstory she wasn't able to put in the books!), she'll be able to reconcile the plot holes.
DebetEsse - Mar 30, 2006 3:00:30 pm PST #291 of 28061
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I hope she does, too
But I think you may be a bit overly hopeful.