You'd have to be blind to not see it.
::weeps:: You're right! You're so right! OSC, forgive me!!!
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
'Ariel'
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."
Steph L. - May 06, 2008 7:41:12 am PDT #5682 of 28348
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
megan walker - May 06, 2008 7:44:50 am PDT #5683 of 28348
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
JKR stole lots of notions, but OSC is not even in the top ten of her influences.
Which is why I actually agree (in a general sense) with a lot of what he is saying in that piece.
Jessica - May 06, 2008 7:51:34 am PDT #5684 of 28348
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I really really liked Ender's Game. That having been said, the man is full of shit.
That just about sums it up, doesn't it?
brenda m - May 06, 2008 7:52:34 am PDT #5685 of 28348
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I don't know. If the guy had written a book with very similar themes and tropes and JKR was having a fit over it, then sure. That's not really what's going here though - apples and oranges, from where I sit.
DavidS - May 06, 2008 7:55:49 am PDT #5686 of 28348
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That just about sums it up, doesn't it?
Sums up a lot of writers and artists. In fact, finding the ones who aren't full of shit is probably the rarer trait.
Writers Who Aren't Full of Shit:
Neil Gaiman (very sensible and charming)
Uhm...Richard Russo seems like a good guy.
Flannery O'Conner (thoroughly impatient with bullshit)
Hmmm, Philip Roth is not full of shit, but has been frequently pretty shitty.
§ ita § - May 06, 2008 8:03:16 am PDT #5687 of 28348
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Which is why I actually agree (in a general sense) with a lot of what he is saying in that piece.
I can't take his point seriously because of all the parallels he's trying to draw. There are only so many stories to be told is way different from how transformative a lexicon may or may not be. The degree and honesty of Dumbledore's homosexuality? Compared to OSC's treatment of same? How is it relevant and anything other than distracting?
Hayden - May 06, 2008 8:07:23 am PDT #5688 of 28348
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Writers Who Aren't Full of Shit:
That list was soooo full of shit. (To quote a great imaginary American, I kid! I kid because I loooooove.)
megan walker - May 06, 2008 8:08:34 am PDT #5689 of 28348
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Maybe because I've never read anything else he's written, I could just mostly walk away with his main point, which was JKR is being really hypocritical in all this, which I've been thinking for some time.
Miracleman - May 06, 2008 8:10:48 am PDT #5690 of 28348
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I also found OSC's characterization of JKR to be annoying. I mean...for all I know he may be right, but how does he know what her motivations might be? And, again, how is it relevant to the subject of discussion?
Aims - May 06, 2008 8:13:52 am PDT #5691 of 28348
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Beacuse she's a doody-head.