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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[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the Byatt article. I'll comment later - visitors at the moment.

Here's the Marina Warner one:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/harrypotter/story/0,10761,996243,00.html

The words altariel1 and thick-skulled just do not belong in the same sentence, unless separated by is the opposite of. I'm just harping on - thank you for your patience.

Thanks for the link to the Jansson one - that sounds like a must-read to me.

I think you're probably right about the fantasy element making it an easier target for some.

Sigh. I enjoy the HP books, I think they're a great read, but I don't love them as much as many others. I'm just narked at all the stone-throwing. Oh well, apparently everyone has to despise someone.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The words altariel1 and thick-skulled just do not belong in the same sentence

I can be extremely pig-headed at times - it's that inferior Se.


Sigh. I enjoy the HP books, I think they're a great read, but I don't love them as much as many others. I'm just narked at all the stone-throwing. Oh well, apparently everyone has to despise someone.

I read the first three incredibly rapidly, and I loved the third one, particularly when Harry sees the stag. The fourth needed a good edit.

I'm enjoying OotP a great deal, actually - thought it was slow starting, but I've been cracking through it today.

I don't know what it is about them that keeps on making me feel so ambivalent towards them - well, I do know, it's the amount of hype and my deep envy of her vast fortune. Mr Altariel really can't abide them.

Mr Altariel... I should just call him Celeborn and have done, for he is surely accounted wise, and I have indeed dwelt with him years uncounted (well, ten), and together through ages of the world (it seems) we have fought the long defeat (little bit of politics).