I cannot fall into the story because I am thinking about all the other stories

[bedlamsbard]

Am currently reading Lev Grossman's novel The Magicians, which can sort of be summed up by describing it as "Harry Potter if Harry Potter was American and Hogwarts was a university but really more like a high school, and also if Narnia was less SRS BZNS and more obsessed with clocks and there were five Pevensies and Peter ran away and vanished into Narnia," which is also how it was publicized last year.

I am currently halfway through it, and my main thought is, "Dude, you could have just written fic like the rest of us."

Comments

Hee. :D

[angel_negra]

There are a great many books that could have been prevented had we just gotten the authors into fanfic sooner.

Re: Hee. :D

[bedlamsbard]

This is one of them, gods have mercy.

[go_gentle]

I usually describe it as "Cross Harry Potter and Narnia, and add alcoholism!" True story: I lent that book to a friend who lived across the hall, and he came back the next day and told me that he was halfway through and I had to take it back before he lost all will to live.

[bedlamsbard]

I can totally believe that. Halfway through it I was starting to lose the will to live. Three-quarters of the way through it I was reading with my mouth hanging open, muffled cursing, and the bizarre desire to finish it despite the fact I wanted to throw it across the room.

[waywren]

Sounds like a determination to conquer it rather than let it conquer you.

THank you for reading it so I don't have to. *hugs tight and offers mulled wine, or hot chocolate if you'd rather (like me)*

[bedlamsbard]

I had to keep reading just to figure out how the fuck Grossman was going to end it!