My love for me now / Ain't hard to explain / The Hero of Canton / The man they call...ME.

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


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."


Jessica - Jul 16, 2007 10:46:36 am PDT #3159 of 28195
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

You didn't buy the one that said

Oh, except for that one. That one's totally accurate.

The epilogue scans looked real as far as looking like pages from a book, but they read like bad fanfic. I guess it's possible that JKR outsourced the last 5 pages of the book to a 13 year-old girl on LJ, but it doesn't seem likely.


Aims - Jul 16, 2007 10:47:48 am PDT #3160 of 28195
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Oh, except for that one. That one's totally accurate.

COMPLETELY!

Is there a linky bob to the scans of the epilogue?


Connie Neil - Jul 16, 2007 10:49:24 am PDT #3161 of 28195
brillig

but they read like bad fanfic

Huh, they read like Rowling, to me.


Connie Neil - Jul 16, 2007 10:50:09 am PDT #3162 of 28195
brillig

She just may be going in a direction that some folks would consider bad fanfic.


Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2007 11:07:06 am PDT #3163 of 28195
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Well, HBP seemed like bad fanfic to me at times. I hope DH is less focused on teen romance.


Sophia Brooks - Jul 16, 2007 11:15:17 am PDT #3164 of 28195
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I LIKE teen romance, and a lot of HBP seemed like bad fanfic to me!


Connie Neil - Jul 16, 2007 11:24:26 am PDT #3165 of 28195
brillig

It's not like Harry liking Ginny and Ginny liking him back is a big surprise.


JohnSweden - Jul 16, 2007 12:46:35 pm PDT #3166 of 28195
I can't even.

Robin, I saw your post about the Shetterley-Bull tour - I like both of them, her especially. Unfortunately, they don't seem to be coming east. sigh.

Todd, I asked Will in his LJ about an eastern swing to the tour and his answer was:

"Alas, not this year. I think in fairness, if we do another tour, it'll have to be the east coast equivalent of this one. Which would be heaps o' fun.

I like Will and Emma a lot, more so for having met them in person a couple of times over the years. May their new books thrive!

(not much hope of this post not being drowned in Harry Potter chat, not that there's anything wrong with that)


Scrappy - Jul 16, 2007 12:59:35 pm PDT #3167 of 28195
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Nope, no Easterly stuff this time. They are going to be hitting several spots in Canada, for northerly-dwelling Buffistas to enjoy.


Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2007 1:36:52 pm PDT #3168 of 28195
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I LIKE teen romance, and a lot of HBP seemed like bad fanfic to me!

I'm reading the summaries on SparkNotes, and I'm surprised that the bad fanfic isn't as prevalent as I remember. It's a small part of the book, but it's a very strong part because it's so in-your-face and unsubtle. There's all this other good stuff there that I totally forgot about. For instance, until I started catching up, I did not even remember that Professor Slughorn existed.