I'm guessing it's gotta be Tom Riddle.
And that she was being tricksy by saying it wasn't Voldie?
It's all about the coat.
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§ ita § - Jun 30, 2004 5:32:09 pm PDT #3747 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
sumi - Jun 30, 2004 6:21:54 pm PDT #3748 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
He renounces EVIL and takes back the Riddle name?
Polter-Cow - Jun 30, 2004 6:33:06 pm PDT #3749 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
He becomes the Riddler!
msbelle - Jun 30, 2004 6:49:35 pm PDT #3750 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
He uses the powers within his magic diary to edit Ms. Rowling?
Emlah - Jun 30, 2004 6:58:47 pm PDT #3751 of 10002
To every idea a shelf...
Loving the Potter speculation.
Also, from a while back:
In other news, Haruki Murakami's After the Quake, a collection of stories about the aftermath of the 1995 Kobe earthquake which killed 4,000 people, is just marvelous ... The stories are really hard to describe--not slow but very careful, lucid, all these details and moments building up to something extraordinary at the end. Quiet moments of connection or disconnection, hope or despair, discovery, humor or joy or sorrow.
I freaking love Murakami. Love love love love love. After the Quake is a wonderful collection, and I think you describe the feel of the stories really well. The insanity behind the ordinary. Have you read any of his other work? The Elephant Vanishes is another collection of short stories, although they don't have a unifying element like those in After the Quake. And his novels are exquisite, he absorbs you into a parallel universe of perfect sentences.
Steph L. - Jul 01, 2004 5:21:38 am PDT #3752 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
He uses the powers within his magic diary to edit Ms. Rowling?
BWAH!
Micole - Jul 01, 2004 5:40:05 am PDT #3753 of 10002
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
I've read some of the stories in The Elephant Vanishes (I discovered him via the reprinting of "The Second Bakery Attack" in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, which is a story that just fills me with giddy joy whenever I reread it), but none of his novels.
deborah grabien - Jul 01, 2004 6:42:04 am PDT #3754 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
For Susan, especially, interesting article on historical novels in the Globe and Mail.
Susan W. - Jul 01, 2004 7:05:24 am PDT #3755 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
From the article:
Nonetheless, historical novels are often dismissed as low-grade formula writing, the guy's equivalent of a romance novel. It doesn't help that the Romance Writers' Association includes historical novels in its self-definition -- as long as they have a love interest and a happy ending.
t sputters with fury
Nutty - Jul 01, 2004 7:13:59 am PDT #3756 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Well, the author's not wrong that serial war-historicals probably fill the same gap in men that serial romance-historicals tend to fill in women *; and he's not wrong that a number of these historicals of both types are crap. As for the assumption joining these two ideas, well, it's the same foolishness that calls all fanfic slash, isn't it?
* Actually it's interesting -- I think women "cross over" and read war-historicals, but I do think their primary intended audience is usually male. (Based not least on marketing, prose style, etc.) I know very few men cross over and read romance-historicals.