I wish I had a writing prompt...
So, since I'm not really sure what to talk about, I think I'm going to talk about my favorite part of the story. This way, everyone can comment and tell me their favorite part - class interaction.
Here goes...
My favorite part was definitely the point at which Jonathan is surrounded by the darkness. I just think it's so funny. Everyone is trying to make him leave or make the darkness go away, but there's nothing he can do about it because he wasn't the one who created it. The end was even better when both of them get stuck in the curse, but I'm a little disappointed in the state of magic if they couldn't figure out how to get rid of the curse. Aren't they supposed to be the best magicians of the time?
The whole time I was reading this part of the book, I was thinking about some cartoon where the character is followed around by the dark rain cloud, and that made the whole thing even more funny. I had the idea that Jonathan would be trying to run away from it while it followed him everywhere he went...haha.
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Yay! Let's start a superlatives list!
My favorite chunk was the sequence dealing with Childermass, Vinculus and the Raven King. Perhaps it's just because I LOVE the idea of an individual actually BEING a book. Being the bibliophile I am, I was all like- "SIGN ME UP!...literally." (Pun alert). This just hearkens back to the whole biblical "And the Word was God" thing. I'm learning that this allusion is pretty pervasive in the fantasy genre. It's an interesting quirk I had never noticed before this class. Yay! I'm learning!
Maybe this is silly... but didn't Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh have a little rain cloud that followed him around?
I don't think Eeyore had a rain cloud, except metaphorically. The character with a rain cloud that comes to mind immediately is Joe Bfstplk in Al Capp's great comic strip "Li'l Abner." His portrait is now on a button.
As for the idea of an individual being a book, the writer Shelley Jackson -- who is also Kelly Link's illustrator -- is recruiting a few thousand people to be a short story titled "Skin," one single-word tattoo at a time.
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