An Evening with Harry, Carrie, and Garp

[ziasudra]

I just came back from "An Evening with Harry, Carrie and Garp," a book reading event featuring Stephen King, John Irving, and J.K. Rowling. Each author read an excerpt of his or her work and answered questions at the end. I went with something like 20 other people, and it was a lot of fun :)My absolute favorite person of the night was John Irving.

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[methegirl3]

oh wow, how exciting, stephen king? lol, yeah, his stuff is creepy. rushdie was there too? interesting meeting!

[ziasudra]

Yes, and he's funny like he normally is for interviews. He's also very down-to-earth, very normal :)

[valis2]

Great recap...I can't wait to read transcripts!

[ziasudra]

Yeah, I know Gina was able to record the Salman Rushdie question, poor quality that it was. I've been mauling over that question quite a bit!

[kaskait]

Irving was fabulous. I think the female part of the audience was verrrrrrry impressed with him.

I just liked the fact that Rushdie is a part of the Snape crew.

You're right the reading excerpt chosen by Rowling was very safe. I wish she would have chosen the Harry/Sluhorn meeting to read.

[ziasudra]

Irving was by far my favorite of the night. Haha, the Harry/Slughorn scene would have been nice -- I wonder what voice she would have given him.

[ziasudra]

I had so much fun *g* Cheesy as it sounds, I wish you could have been there.

[everydaysushi]

Whoo hooo!! It was so awesome!! :oD Interesting to read about your night... Now I'm glad we split up b/c we can discuss the differences... That's awesome that Rushdie was there! Was there giant applause

[ziasudra]

Oh, it was good that you went Aug 1. I like the Aug 2 questions better, but JKR refused to answer most of them, so you got the better deal in the end, I think. :)