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szaleniec1000 October 8 2011, 10:18:41 UTC
I threw in a few references to how the narrator has this tendency toward Don't Explain the Joke, where Neil basically spells out everything letter by letter, assuming his readers are drooling mongoloids.

See also: Halcyon, who does this to JKR's jokes when he plagiarises them. Though it's particularly important for jokes, I'd generalise it to say that anything the reader can infer doesn't need to be directly stated. In my example, Harry telling Ginny that he thought it was her day off shows us that it would normally have been her day off and that he's surprised to see her without actually having to tell us.

On an unrelated note: I have an idea for your next sporking once you've finished with Hogwarts Exposed.

How about Legacy of the Force: Revelation by Karen Traviss? Or any other of her Star Wars novels? That way, you could break into sporking Profic as well as find a worthy successor to this load of...shite.

That might not be a bad idea. I've already got some stuff lined up for the gap between Exposed and Too Exposed, though. I want to mix things up without losing too much momentum.

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sith_droideka October 8 2011, 14:18:14 UTC
Any chance we'll know what they're ahead of time?

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