Feh

[altariel]

I just wrote a long entry, forgot to copy'n'paste, and LJ munched it.

Short version: brilliant weekend, loads of books bought, countryside nice and want to live in place where it is extremely quiet indeed, email has been fried since yesterday afternoon until this afternoon, got several rather crushing deadlines at end of the month so may well disappear for a couple of weeks or else will be procrastinating wildly and constantly online.

And here's an article by A.S. Byatt about Harry Potter.

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

The HP books are owing more and more to Orwell and less and less to "typical" fantasy.

I'm just shy of halfway through OotP, and it had very much begun to remind me of the seasons of Babylon 5 where President Clark is starting to take control on Earth. Which is very Orwellian.


I'll think of you while I sip a daiquiri beneath some palm trees. I'm evil like that.

:-P Have an excellent time!


Incidentally, do you still want the ToG synopsis?

Absolutely! Send it across! I might even have time to read it - probably in August!

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

it had very much begun to remind me of the seasons of Babylon 5 where President Clark is starting to take control on Earth.

Sugoll is with you on that one. I think he links it explicitly to season 3.

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

There should be more Orwellian Tolkien fics.

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

I think asking anyone to get 'gun' and 'cannolli' into an ME fic might have been a bit of a tough challenge ;-) But Mafia themes will be extremely welcome.