I've always kept my distance from the literary types, being of the view that they would be dreadful bores, and would talk in some abstruse language, that I wouldn't understand. But The Brownie undid my misconception - but then for every rule there is an exception, and as they say, the exception proves the rule. See how poor my understanding of the English language is. :(
Recently I was pleasantly surprised to read Manasi, another literature student from that eminent institution - The Star of The Sea college. Far from being boring, her posts were quite engaging with their conversational style.
She discusses the Times list of 100 greatest books of the century in her post - Listlessness.
And the post, The Prophet Speaks, in which she prophecies the possible turns the final Harry Potter book would take, is ever so delectable. From that post I was surprised to know that there are people, who write books (and make money) on what will happen in HP7!
Happy weekend. :)
Friday, May 25, 2007
Literary lists, The Potter Saga Prophecies and so on...
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lol...i actually finished reading this even before you published it..i think you published it and then again saved it in drafts..but google reader is faster..;)
anyway what abt the tag??
Have you seen this yet?
http://www.harrypotterfanfiction.com/
I see two of the The Visitor's regular visitors have been here before me :)
The Potter Mania doesn't affect me much these days.I did like the first three books... but with growing success and popularity, Rowling's books started reading more like a screenplay for a movie than a children's book.
I'd rather raise my children on Richmal Crompton and Enid Blyton! :)
All these Top 100 lists are probably made based on factors like no. of days on the bestsellers' lists,no. of copies sold,no. of awards won and opinion polls...The reading tastes of people varies a good deal and I have never believed in 'Majority wins-minority loses'.This majority also consists of pseudo book lovers who read a certain book just because it's on some bestsellers' list or its 'uncool' to have not read it cos the entire world has read it and thinks it's great.Look at the hype a less than mediocre fare like Da Vinci Code created...
And I'm glad Wodehouse isn't on a list with ordinary mortals.:)
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