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On Reading Twilight and Harry Potter

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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter moved me to rush home and re-read the whole series from the beginning.  I also figured that since Eclipse was releasing to theaters soon after my return, I would trudge through the final three installments of Twilight and have a wonderful time writing a series of blog posts analyzing [...]

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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Our Awesome Soft Opening Adventure

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My wife and I had planned our trip to Florida (our vacanymoon to steal a term from a friend) around the biennial Joss Whedon conference Slayage.  We thought we were getting incredibly lucky because Universal Orlando’s new theme park—The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, obviously—had been pushed back to a Spring 2010 opening.  When we [...]

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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Soft Opening Impressions and Red Carpet Event

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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter has its grand opening on June 18, 2010.  My wife and I are currently vacationing (pseudo-belated honeymoon style) in Orlando, but have to leave before the 18th.  Luckily, Universal is going through their soft opening right now, and we were able to sneak a peek at some of the [...]

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Whose Story is It Anyway?

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Every story is about someone, one particular character without whom the story could simply not be told. Every time we pick up a book or watch a movie, we are investing in this  single character.  It might be the main character; it usually is.  We follow them as spectators through their adventures, trials, and journeys, [...]

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Review Part 2 – Movie Impressions

And now for the movie! First, let me say this: I loved it. I thought it was a fantastic film that was full of charm and wit and humor. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the film that I went in expecting to see. What strikes me the most odd about this is that I thoroughly enjoyed it, [...]

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Review Part 1 – Expectations

I had planned on writing this prior to seeing the film, but I got sidetracked with other things and couldn’t find the time. Instead, I will do my best to write my most unbiased opinions of what I expected from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince based solely on the novel, which I haven’t read [...]

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Whoops…

So in my nervous scatterbrainedness of the past few days, I forgot to upload a draft of today’s post before going out of town. I have it written and ready to be edited, but it sits in my “Ideas and Drafts” folder on my computer at home, and I’m out of town until late this [...]

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The Death of the Author in the Information Age

The idea of “death of the author” primarily means that once a work is created that the author’s influence on it is non-existent, that it is solely in the reader’s hands to place meaning in a text. This is to say that whatever intentions a writer has for a book (or a director for a [...]

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