liadnan

Feeling 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.

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liadnan

Um. Maybe, I dunno.
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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Croydon! Ah yes - city of sin and wild delights - lived there for 10 years in the 70s. the daughter was born there in '72.
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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?