La Belle Dame Sans Merci Hath Thee in Thrall
soooo never cross harcore harry potter fans, even if they're your close friends.
last night I said something that the Harry/Ginny interaction was predictable. I stand by that firmly. I think most of the book's romantic couplings, particularly among the youth, have been predicatable. I don't think there's anything especially wrong with that; the main audience for the books isn't undergraduate English majors who are used to having to pick apart subtleties in writing.
But since then, my roommate has been especially prickly on that topic. She even brought it up again today when I said that I was thinking about reading her copy of "Eragon" before the movie comes out. She said it was good, but predictable, and looked pointedly at me in a way that clearly said she wasn't just talking about "Eragon."
Geez. I've always prefaced anything I've had to say about Harry Potter by saying that I like the books, and usually my only criticism is that it's predictable at points. I'm just trying to engage my roommate and her friends in conversation about it, rather than being left to sit at the table chewing to myself and staring blankly at the wall while everyone else talks about Harry Potter. I didn't realize all conversation had to be limited to an unadulturated love of the infallibility of Potter.
Connie Willis and John Keats are my two favorite authors, but I can easily admit that their writing has flaws. They're human. It's probably a relief (though for Keats, maybe not so much, not that it matters for him anymore).
Seriously, I feel like I need to prostrate at the altar of HP and say 10 "Hail Rowlings" now before I can go on.
last night I said something that the Harry/Ginny interaction was predictable. I stand by that firmly. I think most of the book's romantic couplings, particularly among the youth, have been predicatable. I don't think there's anything especially wrong with that; the main audience for the books isn't undergraduate English majors who are used to having to pick apart subtleties in writing.
But since then, my roommate has been especially prickly on that topic. She even brought it up again today when I said that I was thinking about reading her copy of "Eragon" before the movie comes out. She said it was good, but predictable, and looked pointedly at me in a way that clearly said she wasn't just talking about "Eragon."
Geez. I've always prefaced anything I've had to say about Harry Potter by saying that I like the books, and usually my only criticism is that it's predictable at points. I'm just trying to engage my roommate and her friends in conversation about it, rather than being left to sit at the table chewing to myself and staring blankly at the wall while everyone else talks about Harry Potter. I didn't realize all conversation had to be limited to an unadulturated love of the infallibility of Potter.
Connie Willis and John Keats are my two favorite authors, but I can easily admit that their writing has flaws. They're human. It's probably a relief (though for Keats, maybe not so much, not that it matters for him anymore).
Seriously, I feel like I need to prostrate at the altar of HP and say 10 "Hail Rowlings" now before I can go on.