Fiction (was: Ender's Game) / / and Gleewarts sounds so cool!

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

"bbkkyy55" Bonnie wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/27562 :

<< [Orson Scott Card] made a statement in the introduction that rang
so true for me I almost had to cheer. He says: "Why else do we read
fiction, anyway? Not to be impressed by somebody's dazzling language -
or at least I hope that's not our reason. >>

I'm not disagreeing with anything he said about learning about the
human heart, nor with anything Aristotle said about catharsis of pity
and terror, but certainly sometimes I DO read some fiction and some
non-fiction precisely FOR its dazzling language. And sometimes for its
ROTFL humor, which is a much lower-brow reason than that.

<< Orson Scott Card goes on later in the introduction to say:
"The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience
members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then
transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own
experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears."
That must be why movies seldom are as good as the books. >>

It's not easy for a movie to be very good (and not easy for a book to
be very good), so it's not easy for the movie made from a very good
book to be as good as the book. However, I'm under the impression that
some very good movies have been made from rather bad books, yet
another indication that the book and the movie are different beings.

PS: 
Pauline wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/27582 :

<< I would also love to know if anyone will be on the Gleewarts
Express?? Gleebooks in Sydney are organising a steam train ride, with
lots of entertainment, everyone in wizard regalia and cauldron cakes.
"Minerva" wrote to say that they wanted to know if we had seating
preferences, and I wondered if anyone here would be going. >>

That sounds so cool!