Comments | philomel: sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday

philomel

sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday

Jul 29, 2007 20:26

Lured in by the newest Neil Gaiman-based scents, I ordered some more BPAL a few weeks ago... and received them less than two weeks later, which has to be the quickest turn around from them I've ever experienced. It took me a while (they sent me 6 free imps, eep!) to make it through them all. Jotted down my reactions, and here they are:

( BPAL reviews: Aizen-Myoo, Caliban, The Caterpillar, Crossroads, The Deep Ones, Djinn, Fairy Market, Greed, Kali, Rose Cross, Szepassony, Tenochtitlan, War )

bpal, harry potter, film

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nutmeg3 July 30 2007, 00:59:59 UTC

I absolutely adore the idea of a scent called Creepy!

philomel July 30 2007, 05:22:26 UTC

I look forward to declaring, "I smell Creepy!" *snerk*

They have some excellently named scents. Clever kids.

nutmeg3 July 30 2007, 13:16:20 UTC

LOL! Now I'm hearing "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story, only with "creepy" inserted.

philomel July 31 2007, 06:29:30 UTC

*snort* Now it's in my head. My bottle finally arrived, so I'll have to sing that when I wear the fragrance tomorrow. ;P

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philomel July 30 2007, 05:33:52 UTC

I haven't picked up anything new recently, but I really need to.

On the opposite end, I really need to stop! *grins* The ex-candle holder in which I keep my imps is completely snug with the darn things. Let's see, well, you're already familiar with Lady of Shalott. Umm, I LOVE Red Lantern, that might be my favourite of all. Mr. Nancy, inspired by Neil's character from Anansi Boys is also fantastic, as are Obatala (smells like summer), Eden, Dana O'Shee, Hollywood Babylon, Hesperides, Aizen-Myoo, Caliban and Szepassony. So, uh, just a few faves. ;)

It's a good interview. Some repeats of what we heard this past week, but it's nice to hear her thoughts as well as the fans'. It kinda made me choke up a bit. Again.

Me too! After all, you're the one who started it by giving me the first movie on dvd years ago, for which I can't thank you enough. Now. Bring on that park! :D

*glomps*

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philomel August 6 2007, 03:07:37 UTC

Does is still take some time for BPAL to send out the imps?

This most recent order took less than two weeks between placement and delivery... pretty darn quick! Not sure if they've stepped things up, or if I just caught them during a slow sales time.

Amen to that. X) *hugs*

halfdutch July 30 2007, 02:07:21 UTC

Killing off Remus & Tonks would have had much more of an echo if we'd seen its impact their son! That's what I wanted to see in the epilogue and I'm sticking to it! ;) I do get her dilemma, though. You couldn't have everyone survive, so she had to kill some characters we'd miss but I think it's okay she didn't kill off any of the Trio as so many were expecting her to do. Although if Ron and Hermione had died together...? (Why am I suddenly going there? I guess if couples dying together is her thing!)

philomel July 30 2007, 05:42:36 UTC

Hear, hear. She did say she wanted to show that Harry, et. al. had created a "new world" in which Teddy would be able to live a happy, well-adjusted life, supposedly exemplified by the fact that he has dinners with the Potters and was seen snogging Bill and Fleur's daughter. Erm, I'm not so sure that's enough to truly show well-adjusted and happy, but okay, Jo.

She also stated that, early on, she didn't want to kill off any mothers (because of losing her own mother). I'm curious about what changed her mind to make killing Tonks acceptable.

LOL Oh man, could you imagine the uproar if she'd gone there?? Probably only slightly less furor than if she'd killed Hagrid!

cuppa_joe July 30 2007, 03:22:46 UTC

Isn't it captivating?

I had been thinking as I drove a few days ago, about how strongly authors affect literary-minded people....you read a good book,and suddenly, the characters are not only real, they're almost part of your family. You cry for their losses and laugh at their jokes and never want to see their story end--you want to follow it and watch them continue to grow.

I have to say, the critiques I have of the 7th book really don't mstter much--it was brilliantly written and I'm always impressed byher ability to weave such an intricate plot.

By the by, did you hear she's considering an 8th book just "to wrap up loose ends"? You must have by now. Thoughts?

philomel July 30 2007, 05:55:10 UTC

you read a good book,and suddenly, the characters are not only real, they're almost part of your family. You cry for their losses and laugh at their jokes and never want to see their story end--you want to follow it and watch them continue to grow.

Absolutely well put. :) It's such an amazing thing, too, to have these characters and this world that originally existed only in one person's head be adopted and absorbed by other people, to the point where they're as integral and inseparable from the readers' lives as they are from the writer's. Obviously, that goes down to skill of the writers him- or herself. But to take what begins as a solitary thing and turn it massive... especially as massive as the HP phenomenon has become... well, that's friggin' impressive.

I did see something about an encyclopedia of sorts, along the lines of Hogwarts: A History that will go into greater detail than the epilogue. I'm very happy about that, partly for the hope of filled-in gaps, but mostly because it means we still have something to look ( ... )

cuppa_joe July 30 2007, 07:14:32 UTC

Stephen King made an interesting observation once about writing.

"What is writing? Telepathy, of course. All of the arts depend on telepathy to some degree,but I believe writing to be the purest distillation ( ... )

philomel July 31 2007, 06:31:01 UTC

Lovely quote. "Telepathy" is the most (eerily) precise way of putting it. :)

bachlava July 30 2007, 04:51:24 UTC

I've been unable to shake Harry from my head since last weekend... A few years ago, I never would have expected to be so overtaken by HP.

Funny how HP will do that to us all.

Ugh. Imagine desecrating Dumbledore's grave like that indeed. I'm surprised Voldy didn't make an Inferius of him as it was (probably some magical stipulation on time windows, etc.).

*Off to think of bunny rabbits and sunshine.*

philomel July 30 2007, 05:59:34 UTC

I'm surprised Voldy didn't make an Inferius of him as it was (probably some magical stipulation on time windows, etc.).

There was a point where I wondered if he would do that, to Dumbledore or any of the other victims. Maybe JKR felt she had enough dark imagery for a children's book already (because, boy, did she ever!).

It almost makes you want to go back to the first year, when everything seemed mostly innocent. Except, now we know it wasn't.
*adds lollipops and rainbows and fuzzy, purring kittens*