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We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good

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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."

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DavidS - Jul 25, 2005 1:09:37 pm PDT #8534 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Not Hec, but when I say that I mean the prose is practically dripping with gleeful excess of descriptive verbiage.

This would be the aesthete influence. The lapidary prose style.

Or else that it is told in such a cynical voice that everything is shot through with experience and amusement.

People like Baudelaire, Wilde, Huysmans, Walter Pater. The Pre-Raphaelites precede it but definitely had a similar lotus-eater vibe.

Kathy A - Jul 25, 2005 1:32:31 pm PDT #8535 of 10002

We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

The new issue of Entertainment Weekly has a lot about both the GoF movie and HBP, including casting ideas for the movie adaptation of HBP. Love the suggestions-- Brian Cox as Rufus Scrimgeour, Bob Hoskins as Horace Slughorn, Peter O'Toole as Marvolo Gaunt, Rhys Ifans as Morfin Gaunt, Helena Bonham Carter as Merope Gaunt, and Daniel Day-Lewis as Fenrir Greyback .

§ ita § - Jul 25, 2005 2:09:21 pm PDT #8536 of 10002

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Rhys Ifans is a bloody genius suggestion.

Lee - Jul 25, 2005 2:09:39 pm PDT #8537 of 10002

The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I have two HP6 questions, now that I am finally done reading it.

1) ita, do you still need someone to lend it to you, and can you wait until this weekend?

2) I did a lot of skimming. Am I the only one who thought that Harry might be one of the Horcruxes (sp?). That could explain how Harry survived Voldemorte's attack, and how he became a parseltongue and why the sorting hat thought about putting him in Slytherin. I know most of the Horcruxes were objects, but if one of them might be a snake, why not another living creature ?

§ ita § - Jul 25, 2005 2:12:03 pm PDT #8538 of 10002

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Perkins, I snapped and bought it to read on the flight back from Montreal. So if anyone wants a copy of HP6 with the British kids cover, it's going for a very nominal ... okay, never mind.

Still, it was the perfect length for the trip home.

Dana - Jul 25, 2005 2:12:19 pm PDT #8539 of 10002

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Perkins:

Anne W. "We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good" Jul 21, 2005 12:36:48 pm PDT

DavidS - Jul 25, 2005 2:13:17 pm PDT #8540 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Perkins as to (2) many people are speculating that Harry's scar is a Horcrux

Lee - Jul 25, 2005 2:14:12 pm PDT #8541 of 10002

The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Ah. Thanks. I haven't read many LJs, and I missed Anne's post.

I think we are all right.

§ ita § - Jul 25, 2005 2:15:35 pm PDT #8542 of 10002

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It would be a great idea -- and it'd also explain how Harry was able to see into Voldie's stuff. Uhhh -- what was the plan for getting rid of the bits of his soul, again?

Lee - Jul 25, 2005 2:20:27 pm PDT #8543 of 10002

The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Re your white font, ita: Maybe since they have to destroy them all, Neville will have to kill Harry. Or maybe there could be a Nip/tuck cross over.

Either would make me laugh.

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