"The Great Snape Debate" and a few words on LOTR

[justcarol67]

Speaking of Orson Scott Card, has anyone read "The Great Snape
Debate"? From what I understand, it's a flip book--read one direction,
it's about reasons to trust Snape. Turned over and read the other way,
it's about reasons to suspect that he's evil. All I know is that the
book is available only from Borders.

http://www.bordersstores.com/search/title_detail.jsp?id=56815939&srchTerms=the+great+snape+debate&mediaType=1&srchType=Keyword

I'm considering reading the "good Snape" side in the store rather than
spending the money for it, actually.

And, BTW, Steve and Kemper, you might try giving LOTR another chance.
I know that it starts off slowly (Tolkien grew up in a time before TV
and computers when life was less hurried than it it today and authors
could take their time getting to the exciting parts) but parts of it
are terrifying (Weathertop, for one) and other parts are beautiful or
moving. I'd list them but I don't want to spoil anything. Sam is as
loyal as any Hufflepuff, but my heart belongs to little Pippin and
tragic Boromir.

As Miles stated so beautifully, "Maybe it's a very personal
way to experience literature - but sometimes I simply lose my heart to
sentences." LOTR contains sentences like that, sentences that stay in
the mind and the memory to be treasured forever like certain
unforgettable poems or lines from Shakespeare or the King James Bible.
Oh, and Shakespeare borrowed most if not all of his plots, as did
Chaucer before him. It's the retelling that was brilliant.

Carol, who read the first few pages of "Eragon" but was not
sufficiently intrigued by the book to pick it up again