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Post by Beverly Marie on Jun 26, 2008 15:34:48 GMT -5
My mom's over in the corner re-reading the sixth Harry Potter book, and she just starts laughing and laughing! So, naturally, I ask her what was so funny (of course). And she says:
"How does she come up with this stuff? I mean, listen to this: Harry and Ron are trying to get somewhere, 'and they were temporarily detained by Peeves, who had jammed a door on the fourth floor shut and was refusing to let anyone pass until they set fire to their own pants. But they conveniently dodged it by ducking through one of their shortcuts.' "
And later, Neville had to get a new pair of pants because he burned his trying to get through the door.
And in the same chapter: 'A little way to his left, Ernie Macmillan was contemplating his hoop so hard that his face had turned pink; it looked as though he was straining to lay a Quaffle-sized egg. '
'Friends they might be, but if Ron started calling Lavender "Lav-Lav," he would have to put his foot down.'
How can you resist a book series when they are all littered with lines like those!
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Post by mousemaylikecheese on Jun 26, 2008 16:07:04 GMT -5
I feel the same way about Lewis Carroll and some select lines from Tolkien. Sometimes he just has this wonderfully expressive way of saying things. "...calling each other perfectly true and quite applicable names" ...you can substitute the words "expert treasure hunter" for burgler(sp?), if you like.
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Post by E. R. O'Donnegale on Jul 20, 2008 21:49:57 GMT -5
I also say the same thing about "Pride and Pre-Juiced Plums." ^_^
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Post by Schmergo on Jul 21, 2008 9:30:34 GMT -5
Awww! That's an incredibly nice thing to say!
I love writers like Jonathan Stroud (Bartimaeus Trilogy), Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl), Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide), Lemony Snicket (Series of Unfortunate Events) and especially Terry Pratchett (Discworld) for the creative, funny way that they word things. They're definitely the biggest influence on my writing apart from JK Rowling... I grew up reading Series of Unfortunate Events and Harry Potter, and now that I'm older, I'm really into all those other wacky British writers (though Lemony Snicket's not actually English.)
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Post by mousemaylikecheese on Jul 21, 2008 11:52:38 GMT -5
I haven't read the Bartimaeus trilogy, but I have read those other books. I like Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate events.... but I don't recommend his alter ego Daniel Handler's the Basic Eight. Absinthe abuse, underage drinking, murder, sexual content(not explicit... though I was reading it late at night so it's kind of blurry), and gratuitous cursing--I think a certain word (the actual curse word that is mentioned as part of an award in an uncensored/British Douglas Adams* book--it is replaced with Belgium, which becomes much funnier) occurred about two hundred times or so?. Eeurg. The funny thing is, I think I'm a bit like Flannery Culp, the main character, and I found myself agreeing with the idea that if I were going to abuse a drug, absinthe's image fits me better than... say, marijuana... But I don't do any drugs whatsoever. (Unless you count wool as a drug for some obscure and absurd reason ;D )
*Has anyone read Watership Down? (which is written by Richard Adams. It's about rabbits! Rabbits! Rabbits! Watership Down! Thlayli-rah!)
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