China Mi�ville readers will want to head over to Crooked Timber for the discussion.
PZ Meyers reports that:
It�s much more than the usual Q&A�the critics take some time to expand on ideas and express themselves at length, while Mi�ville also replies in a single lengthy discussion. It just seems to be an appropriate use of the medium.
Be prepared with your thinking caps.
Well, slightly less until Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is released on July 16, 2005.
It is already number 1 at Amazon.
Hey, I like this series and I want it now!
And, I want more not less. These are pretty easy reads so if weight is a factor, and the last one was heavy, make the print smaller, use lighter paper, whatever, just don’t cut back on the content.
Yesterday the Modulator family spent the day together. First watching a fine performance of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and then a post play dinner.
I’ll spend this evening with Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe and Stockholm Syndrome. Conflicts preclude any of the rest of the family from joining.
Karl Denson is a recent favorite and I’ve been a Jerry Joseph fan for several years and am looking forward to seeing him in this new grouping.
Sure, you all hope it will not be one of your favorite characters:
“Yes, sorry,” Rowling said, when asked yesterday on her Web site whether there would be casualties in her upcoming book, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”But, I suspect that Professor Bainbridge has this one correct:
Personally, I suspect that Dumbledore’s days are numbered. Rowling has hewed pretty closely to Joseph Campbell’s Hero Myth thus far in the Harry Potter series.The Professor has more.
Happy Bloomsday!
Update: Tyler Cowan has some suggestions that will help you actually read Ulysses and Slate has a number of reference links (go to the bottom of the page).