Yeahhhh, I definitely need to start watching TVD. Maybe after I get a little more settled in The L Word and finish season 1 of Community.
Ahh, I'm finally getting back into Goblet of Fire because I just finished A Game of Thrones last night at 4 am, and let me tell you, that book gave me really, really weird dreams. But ugh, that was always one of my disappointments, that Hermione and Krum didn't really reappear. I couldn't even define why I liked it so much at the time, but it was just such a, "YES!" moment when they came down to the ball together. I guess distance would've made anything more between them kind of difficult, but... aww, okay, I guess I'll just be sad about it forever.
That all being said, it's really striking me, as I reread the HP series, how amazing the worldbuilding is. I knew, when I read them as a kid, that I absolutely loved these books. My friends and I would play games where we would pretend we were going to Hogwarts. It's only in rereads that I'm realizing just what a perfect fantasy world it is. It's so tangible that it feels like it could be real, even all these years later. The details that she puts in about the wizarding objects, traditions, etc. just give the books so much. I mean, there's a reason a whole bunch of kids from my generation were really disappointed on their 11th birthdays, and it's not because J.K. Rowling is a spectacular, brilliant writer, it's because she knows how to build a world that makes the fantastic seem totally plausible. Every fantasy book needs that base to stand on, or else the audience just can't believe in it. Judging by how much time I, as a 19 year old, spend going, "UGH I WANT A BROOMSTICK CAPSLOCK RAGE" when I read these books, I'd say she did a pretty good job.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Ahh, I'm finally getting back into Goblet of Fire because I just finished A Game of Thrones last night at 4 am, and let me tell you, that book gave me really, really weird dreams. But ugh, that was always one of my disappointments, that Hermione and Krum didn't really reappear. I couldn't even define why I liked it so much at the time, but it was just such a, "YES!" moment when they came down to the ball together.
I guess distance would've made anything more between them kind of difficult, but... aww, okay, I guess I'll just be sad about it forever.
That all being said, it's really striking me, as I reread the HP series, how amazing the worldbuilding is. I knew, when I read them as a kid, that I absolutely loved these books. My friends and I would play games where we would pretend we were going to Hogwarts.
It's only in rereads that I'm realizing just what a perfect fantasy world it is. It's so tangible that it feels like it could be real, even all these years later. The details that she puts in about the wizarding objects, traditions, etc. just give the books so much. I mean, there's a reason a whole bunch of kids from my generation were really disappointed on their 11th birthdays, and it's not because J.K. Rowling is a spectacular, brilliant writer, it's because she knows how to build a world that makes the fantastic seem totally plausible.
Every fantasy book needs that base to stand on, or else the audience just can't believe in it. Judging by how much time I, as a 19 year old, spend going, "UGH I WANT A BROOMSTICK CAPSLOCK RAGE" when I read these books, I'd say she did a pretty good job.