Do You Have A Picture In Your Mind?

JKR once complained about fans using the nickname “Voldy”. She said something like it makes him sound like a big fluffy teddy bear and fans should realize that he is seriously evil and dangerous.

So I found it funny that she had Peeves use that term at the end:

We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter’s the one, And Voldy’s gone moldy, so now let’s have fun!”

to which Ron remarks:

Really gives a feeling for the scope and tragedy of the thing, doesn’t it?

Please tell us you had a book open when you wrote that, or I will have to seriously doubt the “real life” of the mods which is often asserted here.

So which character would I be?

Cinderella, you are Harry before his 11th birthday.

Nothing too deep. I’m just comparing the way the Dursleys treated Harry to the way Cinderella was treated by her stepmother.

In terms of the shoe fitting, is it the shoe that chooses the girl?

If we’re doing HP, how about DWJ?

Nah, I don’t expect to find any fellow fans on an American website.

nope.

Diana Wynne Jones. Authoress of many fantasy books. Ingenious.

enjoyed them many years ago, but def. couldn’t play trivia…

Well, if we’re talking British fantasy novelists…how about Terry Pratchett? Which Discworld character would you be? ^_^

I keep trying to come up with a clearly-defined explanation for why i feel that the HP books don’t compare to many other great fantasy novels, but am not quite managing.

The clearest differenc is that she didn’t really create a new world, in the sense of new concepts etc. – all the details of magic are really old known ones, and she just wove them together (the only real exception that comes to mind are horcruxes). So what ? So maybe its a different escape: You don’t go into a magical world, she brings magic into your world. Hmn…

I see there are no Discworlders here. That is a very big shame. 🙁 You should all read the series because it is like 100x more awesome than Harry Potter. And even The Guide. Yes, it’s that good.

I think HP felt more “real” to people because it took place in our world and incorporated known legends into the world we know. So the readers can relate to the characters. Though at the end of the day, I don’t think anybody can purposely reproduce such a phenomena by studying what caused it. It was mostly mazel.

I liked the Inheritance series because the magic all worked very scientifically and was explained well in a good story. I know many people think the characters are very stereotypical etc but I thought it was very well written and entertaining.

Speaking of which, what happened to Toi?

But it’s truuuuuuuuuuuuuuue.

I picture crazybrit as a big fat person since their posts take up the entire page.

Yeeeeeees a TP fan! I can’t wait for Dodger to come out! ^_^

So which are your favorite Discworld books? Mine are Guards, Guards! and Making Money and Night Watch and Witches Abroad and Mort.

Ooh I love Reaper Man. Death + Auditors of Reality = epic adventures. ^_^

Guys, can we start a CR Discworld fan club? With member rankings based on how many you’ve read so far. 🙂

sure OneOfMany, so far i have 14 and in middle of 15

Bump in the afternoon.

I’m trying to think of how I picture people. I guess I really don’t.

lol I don’t either. Like, in real life, a friend ask me if their parent or whatever looks like I imagined, and I’ll be like, “Uh…” And the funny thing is I am ordinarily a visual person. hmm

Aw shucks. And here I thought I was so cool… 😛

So I get to be VP, showjoe is Treasurer, and Luna can be a trainee. ^_^

ttly true.. i read all 7 books and have some of them almost memorized!! not kiddin.. only the first rlly..

by the way, i have updated my tp collection im now in middle of 21, and 22 is already taken out of the library!

and also does this club include all tp books or only discworld ones?because im not such a fan of his non-discworld books.

purplicious: I picture you as a Gumball. A purple one. ^_^

Showjoe: Eeeeeeeexcellent. ^_^ (lol I better keep at it if I don’t want to get demoted again :P)

My count does not include non-Discworld. I agree with you that they aren’t as good (Nation comes to mind) – with the exception of Good Omens, of COURSE (Terry Pratchett + Neil Gaiman = BEST BOOK EVER). I do have Dodger on my To-Read list – it sounds pretty good…

😛

OOM: well it a good thing u dont count them because i started reading one and it wasnt good (now that u mention it, it might have been /Nation/ (remember mods?)) so i would prefer if they weren’t counted.

P.S. if u look carefully my 2 posted are different. one says i read 21 books, and one says i read 22 books; the first time i miscalculated.

purplicious: how about u,did u count non-discworld books?

for next post :whats that got to do with enything?

lol didn’t really think so…just sounds a lot like her. 😛