Actually, there were two things I liked a lot about the Harry Potter books:
1) It's so easy to read that a brain-dead chimp with a hangover could read and enjoy it.
2) The characters and situations are, in the main, so familiar and cardboard that there's something extremely comforting and safe about the whole thing. It's like wearing a pair of comfy old boots.
Most of the success I think is due to these things - it's damned simple and it's damned familiar. I wonder how well it will do as rugged difficult angry harry potter?
I had just about talked myself into borrowing the books from my niece when i followed the link and read this. Now i do wonder if i'll bother. Should i? I'm always several steps behind the trendy things to read/do/wear lol.
Hmm... why not try the first one. It's very short. If you don't like it then you don't need to read the others and the first one is a short afternoon's read.
I wouldn't say that, exactly. Three entries in as many months doth not a 'blog make, especially since one of those was ``hello, this is a placeholder entry just so's there's not a blank page here - generally I simply can't be doing with weblogs'', another was ``oh ok then, this is a terse summary of the major events of the last six months or so of my life, because several people have asked'' and the third was ``here's a vaguely amusing Harry Potter pastiche I wrote in a fit of boredom''.
I've got a long way to go before I'm, say, posting scanned pictures of whatever medication I happen to be on, certainly :)
A fellow DWJ fan She is rather good, isn't she. One happy side-effect of the widespread Harry Potter obsession is that DWJ's books are now back in print where they belong. I'm rather looking forward to seeing Hayao Miyazaki's forthcoming film of `Howl's Moving Castle', I must say.
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Actually, there were two things I liked a lot about the Harry Potter books:
1) It's so easy to read that a brain-dead chimp with a hangover could read and enjoy it.
2) The characters and situations are, in the main, so familiar and cardboard that there's something extremely comforting and safe about the whole thing. It's like wearing a pair of comfy old boots.
Most of the success I think is due to these things - it's damned simple and it's damned familiar. I wonder how well it will do as rugged difficult angry harry potter?
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I've got a vague feeling we've met, actually - did I share a taxi with you from Jersey Airport a couple of Eastercons ago?
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I blame steer.
The task of painting the world seems ever more doable...
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I've often found that to be a sensible and effective strategy :)
There was some sort of LJ thing at this year's Eastercon and I meant to wander along, but I never quite got around to it. Maybe next year.
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Eventually the mockery will place these books into potter's field.
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I wouldn't say that, exactly. Three entries in as many months doth not a 'blog make, especially since one of those was ``hello, this is a placeholder entry just so's there's not a blank page here - generally I simply can't be doing with weblogs'', another was ``oh ok then, this is a terse summary of the major events of the last six months or so of my life, because several people have asked'' and the third was ``here's a vaguely amusing Harry Potter pastiche I wrote in a fit of boredom''.
I've got a long way to go before I'm, say, posting scanned pictures of whatever medication I happen to be on, certainly :)
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This made me laugh. Lots.
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A fellow DWJ fan
She is rather good, isn't she. One happy side-effect of the widespread Harry Potter obsession is that DWJ's books are now back in print where they belong. I'm rather looking forward to seeing Hayao Miyazaki's forthcoming film of `Howl's Moving Castle', I must say.
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