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On Beautiful World
Oct. 26th, 2003 10:30 amETA: A last-minute entry before I leave. Bye LJ! Will be suffering withdrawal without you! *sniffles*
On a side note, before we get to BW:
My ickle brother got a phone last night, which I will be using on my trip because it's tri-band and my phone is not *hates phone*, and guess what? The unit came with a free Britney Spears CD.
*dies laughing*
My brother is threatening not to lend me the phone if I don't stop giving him knowing looks and putting on a lightbulb!AHA expression and saying "So that's why you got the unit" and smirking most smugly. (He's a rocker, and likes telling me I'm such a pop person, but I'm not. He despises pop, and the Britney Spears CD is a foul foul foul thing for him. LOL.)
Well, finished reading Beauiful World last night, or should I say this morning? (Was up till 2am. w00t!)
Am feeling quite silly, because I didn't get the ending. LOL. Must have been my sleep-deprived head, thinking that Harry was walking backwards and turning to walk towards the direction he came from, instead of towards where he was actually going. -_-;
Let's see... I liked Beautiful World a lot. The last sentence was very chilling, and it haunts me even now, because it was so subtly delivered, and the emotions one would expect flowing out from a scene like that was absent in the story, as if the readers were to imagine it themselves. Restraint is a good thing, albeit a difficult technique to master, but here it was done superbly. :)
I loved loved loved the ending. :) For a while there I thought it would turn into Vernika Decides to Die, that novel by Paulo Coelho, and I truly didn't want it to end up like that because it would ruin ruin ruin everything, and I'm so glad it didn't. That kept me on my toes til the last sentence, and the real climax was the end. :D
Had a bit of trouble with the fluff in some scenes though, but chose to cut it some slack: Harry's impending doom can do that to them anyway. :) Maybe it was missing Ron and Hermione a bit, and the whole Voldemort thing, but Cinnamon *did* say it was an AU (Specially after Book 5 came out and *he* was still alive), so let's assume the prophecy is non-existent. Good. I can deal without the prophecy and without *him* being dead and all. ;)
Cannot wait for when I get back, because then I'll be reading After the End, finally. :D
On a side note, before we get to BW:
My ickle brother got a phone last night, which I will be using on my trip because it's tri-band and my phone is not *hates phone*, and guess what? The unit came with a free Britney Spears CD.
*dies laughing*
My brother is threatening not to lend me the phone if I don't stop giving him knowing looks and putting on a lightbulb!AHA expression and saying "So that's why you got the unit" and smirking most smugly. (He's a rocker, and likes telling me I'm such a pop person, but I'm not. He despises pop, and the Britney Spears CD is a foul foul foul thing for him. LOL.)
Well, finished reading Beauiful World last night, or should I say this morning? (Was up till 2am. w00t!)
Am feeling quite silly, because I didn't get the ending. LOL. Must have been my sleep-deprived head, thinking that Harry was walking backwards and turning to walk towards the direction he came from, instead of towards where he was actually going. -_-;
Let's see... I liked Beautiful World a lot. The last sentence was very chilling, and it haunts me even now, because it was so subtly delivered, and the emotions one would expect flowing out from a scene like that was absent in the story, as if the readers were to imagine it themselves. Restraint is a good thing, albeit a difficult technique to master, but here it was done superbly. :)
I loved loved loved the ending. :) For a while there I thought it would turn into Vernika Decides to Die, that novel by Paulo Coelho, and I truly didn't want it to end up like that because it would ruin ruin ruin everything, and I'm so glad it didn't. That kept me on my toes til the last sentence, and the real climax was the end. :D
Had a bit of trouble with the fluff in some scenes though, but chose to cut it some slack: Harry's impending doom can do that to them anyway. :) Maybe it was missing Ron and Hermione a bit, and the whole Voldemort thing, but Cinnamon *did* say it was an AU (Specially after Book 5 came out and *he* was still alive), so let's assume the prophecy is non-existent. Good. I can deal without the prophecy and without *him* being dead and all. ;)
Cannot wait for when I get back, because then I'll be reading After the End, finally. :D
