Rowling and Dianna Wynne Jones

[Skimmel_98]

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From: Skimmel_98
Subject: Re: Rowling and Dianna Wynne Jones
Reply To: [Yahoo! #5609] Re: Rowling and Dianna Wynne Jones
Date: 8/3/00 12:10 am  (ET)

I am pleased to hear that there is essentially nothing more to this
than two English authors working in the same field with similiar age
protagonists. I suspect that if you wanted to you could reduce almost
any pair of books to a few sentences and make them sound the same. Harry
Potter and the Lord of the Rings might be a challenge but I'll bet it
could be done.

I think this particular discussion has something interesting to say
about the proposed FAQs. Periodically we've gone through discussions
of other books to read while waiting for the next book. At least we
did about 5000 messages ago. I don't recall Dianna Wynne Jones coming
up during those messages. I had never heard of her before last week. So
even though we're going over the same territory again, we're getting new
insights. I think its important that the FAQs be there not to stifle the
conversation but to give newbies some insight into what has been dealt
with. That means the FAQs should go into some detail.

By the way, Penny, I would be willing to work on a "What else to read"
section.