So now that I am out of school, out of 9 years of higher education, I have begun reading a lot more. I know this is hard to believe, having been through law school and the like, but I feel as if I am reading a lot more now than when I was in Law School. Maybe it is because I am retaining a lot more of the information or maybe it is just that I am enjoying the books now that I have the time to read them.
Since starting to read more I have discovered that many of the characters in the books closely resemble many of my friends. Maybe this is true for everyone, but we all have a Red Queen from "Through the Looking Glass"; we all have a Lyra from "The Golden Compass"; and we all most definately have a Draco
Malfoy from "Harry Potter."So the question is whether we enjoy these books because of the closen
ess they resemble to the characters in our real life or something else. I dont know the answer, but I will continue to make parallels between the book fantasy world and that of my "real" life.
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Am I Lyra? Because Ray would be my Pan.
No, you are not innocent enough - or I have not gotten to the point in the series when she has lost her innocence. Maybe that will come in the next book.
Lyra is innocence;
Red Queen is arrogance; and
Draco is ignorance.
I am so innocent! I thought New Orleans was on the East Coast - that's how innocent I am!
And when you say "Through the Looking Glass" - are you talking Lewis Carroll?
Do you draw a parallel with me to anyone? I feel left out. :)
Not really
I was referring to Alice Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.
Christie - You would be closer to Alice in Through the Looking Glass because of your unique and sometimes backwards view of the world (this is not a bad thing - in fact I would much rather look through the world in your "rose" colored glasses!).
Who's sitting around reading Lewis Carroll? You are crazy Jamie. So does this make me the Red Queen? I want to be Lyra, we're so alike. Or I want to be Ron.
Or Penelope Cruz in the Da Vinci Code. I haven't read it, but I believe Penelope and I have a lot in common - like big hooters and what all.
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