[HPFGU-OTChatter] What to read after...

[Crys Meaker - Domus Ludus]

I say take a peek at my original fic <G>.  Only one chapter up as I've been
obsessed with my SnapeFic, but I'll get more up <G>.

http://www.fanfiction.net/index.fic?action=story-read&storyid=331956


Pax,
Crys

"I have been a part of the Dark Side since my fathers foul sperm hit my
mothers pitiful egg."
Draco Malfoy
Liber Severi
http://home.earthlink.net/~crysmeaker/ls/
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From: <A.E.B.Bevan at open.ac.uk>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 9:47 AM
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] What to read after...


Other reading for those waiting for OOP.

This came up before . some thoughts

Firstly if the HP books have made someone keen on reading for the
first time the question isn't really

`what to read next'

            but

                `what worlds do you want to create today?'

Its all out there to explore. just open a book.

However some thoughts on next steps..

If you want to find a complex and well thought out world with masses
of strange details suddenly illuminating your own, try Ursula Le
Guin's  `Always Coming Home'. An utopia which is realistic because
people still manage to make a mess of their lives in it yet carry on
and build something out of this.  Incidentally, when JKR produced the
short booklets on Quidditch and `Fantastic Beasts'  she provided
something like Le Guins structure for Always Coming Home, information
about the world of the main story that isn't part of the main story,
things we can fit into our creation of that world.

http://hem.passagen.se/peson42/lgw/b_always.html

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9243.html

For a magic world try Le Guin's   `Earthsea'  series. some very
different stories.

http://hem.passagen.se/peson42/lgw/b_wizard.html

Sticking to magical adventures and a band of children taking on
threats and evil, backed by a Dumbledore figure, try  Susan Cooper's
`Dark is Rising' series.

http://missy.shef.ac.uk/~emp94ms/darkser2.html

( HP fan warning - you may have some plot parallel shakes .For
example  11 year old discovers on his birthday he is part of a
magical world and has to undertake several traumatic tasks.)

Now the apparent HP thread that Harry is being led through a series
of tasks to enable him to stand on his own eventually against the
dark lord, without being able to rely on anyone else at all.

A  similar theme runs through the Orson Scott Card book `Ender's
Game'. Here it is training a boy to become commander of earth's
armies against an alien invasion. The plot twist on this one,
reflection on good and evil, is such s shocker Id ask it not to be
spoilered in any discussion.  The successor volume `Speaker for the
Dead' introduces one of the few really alien ideas in Sci or fantasy
fiction.  Lots of reflection  on good and evil here too.

http://www.frescopictures.com/movies/ender/enderbook.html

Enough for now...

Edis


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