The CD books/Also: Chrestomanci

[flying_ford_anglia]

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From: flying_ford_anglia
Subject: Re: The CD books/Also: Chrestomanci
Reply To: [Yahoo! #2485] Re: The CD books
Date: 6/21/00 1:42 am  (ET)

Thanks Prof!

Hey, we missed you and Dee last Sunday.

If Book 4 is 19 hours long, that's probably 16 CDs - yikes! (Inevitably,
I'll have to order Book 4 on CD as well). I'm a bit puzzled though -
I thought CDs had a greater capacity than tapes, but it seems to be the
other way round. Curious.

I haven't started listening yet. I want to choose the moment (and buy
some batteries for my CD Walkman). Plus, I'm still reading "Witch Week"
by Diana Wynne Jones (DWJ) at the moment and it's a lot of fun.

BTW, thanks to whoever it was who recommended trying the other
Chrestomanci books, by DWJ. I enjoyed "The Magicians of Caprona" as well.

I suspect that the UK reprint of DWJ's books (written in the 70s and 80s)
is directly related to the Harry Potter phenomenon. She mixes witchcraft
and comedy and uses 'misfit' children as her protagonists.

"Witch Week", for example, is based in a boarding school for witch orphans
(witchcraft being stamped out by Draconian laws and "Inquisitors"). It's
a million miles from HP, but, somehow, in the same vein.

Neil