Manifesto?

[nrenka]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Charme" <dontask2much at y...> 
wrote:

> Charme again:

<snip>

> Hmmm. So, can I ask a "stoopud" question? Why does he read the books 
> and spend so much time debating and posting about the story if he 
> doesn't "buy" it and cannot accept it? :) 

In his case, it seems to be that he really likes 1-4, but is 
unconvinced by Rowling's handling of the issues raised through those 
books in OotP.  I think he takes the argument to loony heights and 
lows, but it's a question worth asking (if one feels like doing 
criticism rather than analysis) of "does this work?  is it convincing?"

He's hardly the only person in the wide world of the fandom doing 
this; he's just doing it from a different angle than it usually gets 
done (believe it or not).  I saw a thread over on LiveJournal not too 
long ago on "what do you fear" for next book, and there was a whole 
lot of "If X Y and Z happen, the book will suck and I will be very 
unhappy".  (Most of these complaints involved things such as Draco 
duying or becoming completely evil, and there was much lamenting of 
how black and white and simplistic Rowling's universe was when it 
could have been much deeper.)

I have to say that the statement that one cannot imagine a book being 
interesting or worthwhile without a set course of events occuring 
strikes me as a profoundly boring way to read literature.

-Nora gets back to assembling manifestos of other kinds