Miles Gift ATDTDA (1) pg 23/24

[Ande]

Not too likely.... because she is not an academic?  Because she is a 
single mom?  Because she is a she?  She clearly doesn't have a problem 
with books with lots of pages (and may be responsible for creating a 
generation of readers that eagerly await, unterrified , 650 page novels).

Ande



kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

>Mason and Dixon, which pre-dated the first Harry Potter by a year, contains the whole flying over England on a broomstick sequence [I have to re-read it to be more specific].  Perhaps Rowling read Pynchon? [not too likely, I'm guessing]
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>>From: Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>
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>>I wonder whether Pynchon read Harry Potter. There are certainly a number of 
>>elements in AtD which remind me of Rowling's wonderful novels. The hidden 
>>alley in London on page 234 recalls Diagon Alley, on page 716 there is a 
>>reference to a "cloak of invisibility", and the conscious fez on page 832 
>>brings the sorting hat from the Potter books to mind. Of course, Pynchon 
>>wrote about magic before J.K. Rowling was even born, and the 'references' 
>>may just be a continuance of his old preoccupations, but I'd like to believe 
>>that Pynchon reads and enjoys the Harry Potter series, and that the 
>>references are intentional.
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>>Tore
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