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liadnanFeeling a bit flaky today.
Went back up the hill after Dark Angel to finish HP and watch sunset. Slightly to my surprise there was a party going on, hundreds of people milling around, music...
.. and a free bar. Result!
I did eventually finish HP. Better work than previously, though I still found it a bit lacking in some places. Quite significantly dark, more so than before certainly. Certainly a buy in hardback, for one thing, it's so fat the paperback is destined for a short life. Now reading Shadowmancer, which is quite gripping: Moonfleet (if anyone but me remembers that) crossed with Alan Garner; and Love in the time of cholera.
Went back up the hill after Dark Angel to finish HP and watch sunset. Slightly to my surprise there was a party going on, hundreds of people milling around, music...
.. and a free bar. Result!
I did eventually finish HP. Better work than previously, though I still found it a bit lacking in some places. Quite significantly dark, more so than before certainly. Certainly a buy in hardback, for one thing, it's so fat the paperback is destined for a short life. Now reading Shadowmancer, which is quite gripping: Moonfleet (if anyone but me remembers that) crossed with Alan Garner; and Love in the time of cholera.
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Date: 2003-06-22 05:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-23 07:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-23 07:57 am (UTC)HP
Date: 2003-06-22 07:05 am (UTC)a] She polished off the most obvious candidate.
b] The plot device to evoke that extra bit of pathos was so utterly cliched that I saw it coming a mile off and kept on thinking, 'oh no, please don't do that..'
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Date: 2003-06-23 06:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-22 08:23 am (UTC)Very envious that you've already read the latest HP (when do you find the time to read?)- haven't even got a copy yet. Will exercise great self-control and ask for one for my October birthday.
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Date: 2003-06-23 02:25 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-06-22 10:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-23 02:28 am (UTC)I came to the conclusion that in the end, the real problem is they aren't very deep. OK so they're kids books, but so are Cooper, Garner, Pullman.
In the same way, the Dementors just don't bring into my head the.. terrified awe I suppose, of the Dark Rider bangin on the door in Dark is Rising, or the Wild Hunt in Moon of Gomrath, etc, etc, and they're the best she's got. Sorry, bit dashed, off to Croydon for my sins now.
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Date: 2003-06-23 04:31 am (UTC)~
HP, not very deep. . . Perhaps it's because she's keeping it relevant to today's kids, living in a godless society, whereas Garner, Copper, Lewis, et al were dealing with more 'timeless' concepts of spirituality and morality that was firmly rooted in Christianity?
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Garner is a disturbing man you say - doesn't surprise me. You had dealings with/for him then?
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Date: 2003-06-23 07:15 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-06-23 07:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-23 11:00 pm (UTC)Kind of on the subject, I read a new fantasy over the weekend that was quite good, Sorcery Rising by Jude Fisher. A bit too obviously post 11th September, but better than a lot of what I've seen around.
And if you're not reading J Gregory Keyes Age of Unreason books, you should give them a try.