The Long Hot Summer of our Discontent

[rattlesnakeroot]

Well, still no news about the Lexicon Trial. Will August be a turning point? Or has my blog become the online equivalent of Bleak House, and my life the eqivalent of the Madwoman in the Attic who lives alone with her parakeet? Well perhaps . . . if I lived alone instead of in a crowded house full of teenagers, and if I had a parakeet instead of a

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[lunas_ceiling]

Did you write the prequel? It is very clever my dear. I am extraordinarily depressed that Patry decided to scrap his blog, I enjoyed reading it. He is also a very good writer, what a shame. I agree with him that the state of copyright is depressing as well. His point about failed business models is exemplified in the Scrabulous story.

[rattlesnakeroot]

Yes, that is my silly prequel about Scrabbulus. *lol* It's not too hard to parody either the books, the Prequel, or reality. I have a good dose of cynicism about them all, and I could write stuff like that in my sleep.

Good point about the Patry comment going along with the Scrabulus story! I was just trying to scratch up something to write about because it's really getting hard to find anything written about the Lexicon case anymore. Even the Leaky threads are onto George Lippert's problems instead of this case.

But I agree about Patry's blog - I don't see what it serves for him to pack up and leave! I am truly surprised by that. Every forum and blog has trolls and crazy people. Why didn't he just turn off the comments? He really sounds burned out, and that's too bad.

[clair_de_lalune]

I agree - excellent parody of a prequel! *lol*

That's too bad about the blog, too...

[kamion]

"The awkward, shy, greasy, and worst of all, unpopular Scrabbulus crept down the hallway --(--)-- a girl named Jo had chucked it in disgust."HAHAHAHAH, wunderfull, take top marks

[teaqueenie]

JKR isn't capable of cutting the umbilical cord with Harry Potter, nor capable or writing something real, solid and original.

Well, I would suggest that HP was real, solid and original. I'm not overly interested in the Beedle tales but I'll probably pick up the cheapo version. Of course, I wasn't interested in the other two asides and they did turn out to be fun. SIP's prequel was even funner! (is that a word?)

It's got to be hard to move on for JKR - no matter what she writes, it will be compared to HP. I kinda doubt anyone can create another phenom like that. I still like to play in HPverse, so I can't blame her if she changes her mind on occasion.

I can't really follow the Leaky Lippert thread. To me, he wrote a giant fan fiction (I enjoyed it), wrote more, then had a tantrum and threatened to stop writing fan fic unless JKR allows him to write his own sequels to HP. Am I missing something here? I mean, it's nothing I haven't seen from other fanficcers, just with better graphics.

[kamion]

with something real solid and original I ment other then Harry Potter. Of course that was it in itself, but in essence it is her first book ( not seven books, but one book)
And to meet the satandard of writership, I understood, she has set for herself, she will have to take the " second-work-hurdle" She has proven she can write and create, now she has to proove she can detach her creativity from her personal experience and feelings. HP is so closely linked to her personal experience and relations that she has to free herself of him.
Or choose not to turn her back on him and write new stories about new persons in that world, something like Feist did with the Krondor world or Lackey with the Valdemar series.

[rattlesnakeroot]

I never really expected JKR to write someting totally different right away, but I also didn't expect her to be around in the limelight a year after DH. I thought she would be writing in cafes and hotel rooms again, and doing what she does best.

About Fandom and Beedle the Bard - I think Fandom reacts with a "squee" to every piece of news, but most people have already read the stories on Amazon. It may be a nice book, but it's not adding directly to the canon about the characters, and that's what people want. Back before DH, people would sit on forums and whine that we needed news, and then as soon as something came down the pike, they would squee and then start whining again. I don't think Beedle will be enough to make the fans really satisfied.

[kamion]

Oh dear! I love this icon.
I regretly forgot the name of this British actor, something like Bambler or so, but I've seen him in a BBC serie as wacko deputy headmaster on a complete wacko school. An overactive nervewrack that let things fly apart as soon as he started meddling with them.

my own range of icons have been limited to 4 because I stopped using a payed account.

[kamion]

David Bamber plays Mr. Collins.
:)
--Annie

[kamion]

that's the guy.
did not know he played Mr. Collins in pride and prejudice, must have been marvelous. I know that role performed by Tom Hollander.
btw the BBC serie with Bamber was called "Chalk" and he played Eric Slatt.
one quote about Mr Slatt:
If you take more than one Art subject, Mr Slatt tells everyone you're gay!

[rattlesnakeroot]

He'll always be my favorite Mr. Collins. I recently watched the Keira Knightly P&P but that Collins doesn't compare to the foolishness of David Bamber. He is awesome.

[kamion]

"that's the guy.
did not know he played Mr. Collins in pride and prejudice, must have been marvelous."

This scene on YouTube is where he first arrives. The meal he has with the Bennett family -- the way he plays Mr. Collins is excellent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG71k-ucDPU

--Annie