[HPforGrownups] something REALLY depressing

[Donna Rae]

No: HPFGUIDX 2478

As an avid reader of both Stephen King and Anne Rice, 'anxious intervals' are my world.  I've anxiously waited through The Vampire Chronicles, The Mayfair Witches, and one of the worst is Stephen's Dark Tower series (six years between two of the books).  Waiting for the next book does have it's good points.  It almost forces you to reread the previous stories as the author approaches the release of the next book.  

Donna Rae
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Caius Marcius 
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  Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 2:09 AM
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  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Sam Brown" <find_sam at hotmail.com>
  To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
  Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 9:13 PM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] something REALLY depressing


  > But the MOST depressing thing of all is that we have to wait what
  > seems like uncountable months until HP#5, and years and years until
  > the end of the HP series. I don't think I can wait that long! I want
  > to know what happens right NOW!!! ;o)

  During the Victorian era, novels were usually serialized a few chapters at a
  time over a period of months or years.  Charles Dickens first novel The
  Pickwick Papers, appeared in this manner.  It was tremendously popular with
  the general populace, and it was said that the period between 1836-1837 was
  an extended series of anxious intervals as the public awaited the next
  installment of Pickwick

  Should it not be a cause for rejoicing that we can replicate this excitement
  at the dawn of the 21st Century?

      - CMC


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