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[littlelotte]

I got Granny into His Dark Materials! We were just talking about it on AIM :-D I knew she'd love it, though, that's why I gave it to her for Christmas. I got her the Lantern Slides edition with all three books in one. Oh! That reminds me! I took photos of the Lantern Slides before I wrapped the book. I'll type them out at some point

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[diatryma]

Is the Twilight series the one by Stephanie Meyer? If so, could you answer something for me? My sister and her roommates adored the book, she read it in the car as I drove her home for Thanksgiving, and I read it then, and... does the narrator do anything in the later books? I really need to look at the first one (among other books) and figure out why it stood as a story, and while I'd like to read the next two, I'm much less likely to be patient with a passive narrator for that many words.

[littlelotte]

It's rather like Harry Potter was for me...the first books were not very good, but it was like eating potato chips. Once I started I just had to know and couldn't stop. They are extremely quick reads, too, so it's not as if absurd amounts of time were wasted in reading them. Bella is rather annoying, and she really doesn't get any better, but it's one of those "guilty pleasure" reads, and you just want to know what happens. I also adore Edward and the Cullens, and I heard she's also writing a book that is Edward's side of Twilight (I'd love to know what was going through his head throughout the book). Bella's really just a very independent-minded damsel-in-distress.

Of course, I thought the last two books of HP were where JK Rowling really came into her own as a writer, but still...the first books weren't very good. I just had to know what happened after I started, and it became an obsession.

[diatryma]

The potato-chip thing is part of why I want to analyze them. It's like Catherine Asaro for me-- they infuriate me, and yet something (the damned romance) keeps them in my brain. If I could figure that out, I could put it into things I write. I could pick apart things I adore absolutely, but I can't separate the good things out.

They'll be good library books, once my library gets them. I did give Baby Sister Sunshine because I wanted her to see a vampire book done right.

[littlelotte]

It's her hooks. You read the first paragraph and you're lost to the whole damned book. You're even more in trouble if you've read the piece of the climax that she includes at the front.

I'm not a fan of vampire books. I generally stay away from them. I love Dracula, of course, but I'm not sure what it is about this one. So many friends finally were babbling about them that I wanted to be able to talk about them...and then I fell in love with the Cullens. Of course, the romance has me enamored, too. I love "two halves of a whole" and "can't live without" stories...probably because I feel like I've lived in one myself the past handful of years.

[velvatier]

harry potter 4 > harry potter 5, but harry potter 5 > harry potter 1, 2, and 3.

the movies are kind of like crack for me now, and frankly i'd like to see harry potter 6 in theatres, but i have the suspicion that all the fanboys/girls will ruin it for me while i'm waiting in line.

[littlelotte]

I swear to god I thought you were talking about the books for a minute and I was about to backhand you.

READ THE DAMN BOOKS, WOMAN!!!

HP4 was a great book. Horrid movie. HP5 was the WORST book of the set by FAR, though HP2 was pretty bad, too--it was my least favorite before HP5 was released. The HP5 movie was phenomenal! David Yates did the best directing job of the set, and so many fans are thrilled he'll be back for HP6, and now that del Toro is pretty officially no longer a candidate for HP7 since he's in talks for The Hobbit the fans are hoping Yates has another left in him after this. HP1 movie was eh though it worked well for the tone and type of the first book, HP2 movie was eh (both Columbus), and HP3 had a better tone to it, but Cuaron still obviously didn't "get" the books