Hey, I've just found out I'm going to be having dinner with Delia Sherman and Ellen Kushner tomorrow night. I've never read anything by them, but I know that people here like them. So I'm sort of vicariously excited.
Mal: You are very much lacking in imagination. Zoe: I imagine that's so, sir.
'Out Of Gas'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Kate P. - Dec 09, 2005 5:33:51 pm PST #9604 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
JoeCrow - Dec 09, 2005 6:31:39 pm PST #9605 of 10002
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
Dang. You're all lucky and stuff. Tell them their fanbase sez hi.
So, why haven't you read any of their stuff? Not your type of lit? Just never picked one up?
Just curious. Coz I'm nosy like that.
Gus - Dec 09, 2005 6:33:03 pm PST #9606 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
vicariously excited
I'm getting a t-shirt with these words. See if I don't!
Beverly - Dec 09, 2005 6:34:56 pm PST #9607 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh Kate, I'm so envious! Having read--and loved--several things of hers, I wrote Kushner a fan letter once, and got a lovely reply from her. She seems to be a very gracious person. She also made a point of saying she liked my holiday icon last year on LJ. Have fun--and take notes! So you can tell us all about it later.
Beverly - Dec 09, 2005 6:35:27 pm PST #9608 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
And also? Gus! Hey there!
Gus - Dec 09, 2005 6:41:37 pm PST #9609 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Hey, Bev!
vicariously envious
Another t-shirt.
Consuela - Dec 09, 2005 6:41:57 pm PST #9610 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Ellen Kushner is wicked cool, and a fantabulous prose stylist. Color me somewhat jealous.
Kate P. - Dec 09, 2005 6:42:43 pm PST #9611 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
So, why haven't you read any of their stuff?
Oh, just haven't gotten around to it yet--Swordspoint and Thomas the Rhymer have been on my list for ages. Maybe I'll pick up one of them at the bookstore tomorrow after my class. From what I've heard, they're exactly my kind of book.
Having read--and loved--several things of hers, I wrote Kushner a fan letter once, and got a lovely reply from her.
Very cool! I like her already.
§ ita § - Dec 11, 2005 5:25:10 am PST #9612 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have a Goblet Of Fire question. Watching the movie stripped so much away from the book, and I don't remember much of that anyway.
As a friend said -- what a plan! Build a mountain to make Harry climb to the top of it and touch something, instead of just reaching over and grabbing him any old time.
Was there a justification for why Crouch Jr. went through all that effort when he had Harry right there for the bloodletting the whole year?
Kate P. - Dec 11, 2005 5:58:57 am PST #9613 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Well, he had to get Harry to the graveyard somehow, right? I don't think he could have just taken a vial of Harry's blood and brought it to Voldemort; I think Harry had to be there, probably alive. (No memory of whether or not this was explained in the book or whether it's just my fanwank.) Anyway, so you can't Apparate or Disapparate from the Hogwarts grounds, or Floo in or out, and there wouldn't have been all that many opportunities to grab Harry and make off with him through the Hogwarts gates, so... this was the easiest way?
It's a half-assed explanation at best, but it's what I remember from the book.