'Sleeper'
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."
I have no idea why I don't like the Snicket books. They seem custom-designed for me, but I just can't read them. It's like trying to read the journal ramblings of a mental patient.
Also, I took another run at HP:OotP last night and today, and am very much hoping that the long delay for Book 6 has been caused by a team of highly-trained elite editors, who parachuted into the manuscript and began laying about with weed-whackers.
It would be really nice, if in the next HP book, SOMETHING HAPPENED. In the last one, a year passed. That's about the long and short of it.
In the last one, a year passed. That's about the long and short of it.
You know, ita, I was wondering about that. We were discussing Book 4, and then I tried to think of what actually happened in Book 5, and I couldn't think of much.
Hey now, there was some surly and pissiness in there.
And Fred and George started their shop.
And then some surly and pissiness.
And then, the end.
Hey now, there was some surly and pissiness in there.
Oooh yeah. That was the "I want to punch Harry" book.
You know, that's true, ita. I just thought it was me. And I read them all in a big chunk...so it sort of seemed like stuff happened. But in retrospect, nsm.
And Sirius dying, after being turned into a complete asshead who we weren't at all sorry to see go.
But mostly there was TEEN! ANGST!
Jessica: Yeah. Christ, he was one of my favorite characters, until that book.
Lots of genealogy.
popcorn.
I don't remember where I saw it, but Rowling's put some FAQs up on her website--oh, People magazine, I think. No particular order and paraphrased.
She'd like people to stop calling Voldemort Voldie, it's disturbing.
No, Voldemort is not Harry's real father, please stop confusing the Potterverse with Star Wars, which people are obviously watching too much of.
No, she won't be writing the adventures of Harry's parents when she's done with the series. See above re: Star Wars.