Well, really, I can't believe that JKR would be so obvious as to have Snape a villain.

I have to wonder if one of the reasons Book 7 might take two years is for JKR to gauge audience reaction to events in Book 6 and retcon structure events in the new book accordingly.

Heh, Anne. Though one of my favorite things about JKR is the way she "retcon"s. For instance making the diary from CoS a Horcrux. Because back then, it's like, why the hell would he do that? And now it makes sense. She makes me feel like she had it all planned out, and I love that.

I must get this! I love that man's voice, and that is one of my all-time favorite books.

::littleclapsofgeekglee::

You must, you must, you must1 He does an excellent job with some really diverse voices and the story is riveting.

I've mentioned about a thousand times that I a) don't own a tv and b) am dyslexic, so books on tape are more than an occassional thing for me. I listen to them all the time and there are 5 or 6 (besides the HP books which stay in heavy rotation) that I listen to several times a year. the Alienist is one of them.

Also? Patty Jane's House of Curl read by the author, Lorna Lanvik, who weirdly enough, I didn't even know I knew until 5 years after I started listening to the book. Lorna walked from LA to DC with me on the Great Peace March. And unlike nearly every other author I've ever heard, does a GREAT job with the voices in her book.

Songwriters aren't always good singers and authors are often crap readers.

I did, however, just get a Stephen King book from the library. We'll see...

eta: Okay, here's the thing...I may be an enormous dork, but I do NOT use 1s for exclamation marks. I've tried to edit this post, but it gives me no exclam love. Weird, huh?

authors are often crap readers.

Heh. Some of my creative writing professors have been really bad readers. It's like...how can you not know how to read this? Come on! Do it properly!

I did, however, just get a Stephen King book from the library.

He's not a bad reader, IMO. He did the Abraham Lincoln (yes, you read that right) bits in Sarah Vowell's "Assasination Vacation" CD.

AV is an excellent book on tape, by the way. Jon Stewart and Brad Bird do some of the reading as well, along with some other people I can't remember at the moment.

King was also in the TV movie of "The Stand." Just throwing that out there, you know.

Heh. Some of my creative writing professors have been really bad readers. It's like...how can you not know how to read this? Come on! Do it properly!

WORD.

And I'm with you all the way on the retconning in book 6. I found myself loving all the ends tying up and wondering what kind of platform JK is building for the final go. So much is explained in the flashbacks, etc , that there aren't many unanswered questions.

I heard early on that JK has conceived the entire universe in one swoop and that she has just been filling it in. That makes a lot of sense, given the progression of the stories and is, whoa, impressive.

Then again, I heard the same thing about George Lucas and Star Wars. See what become of THAT!

"Assasination Vacation"

I'm SO getting that one.

King was also in the TV movie of "The Stand." Just throwing that out there, you know.

King's been in many of his movies. If not all.