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you have made it!!! It is THE END. number five on my altered book sampler. This is the first story page in the book...notice that it is the last page of the actual story...i am soooo evil.



as a failed note, the previos one (#3) with the FREE LUNCH page on the left was me expressing my frustration at the 'free lunch' quality of the magic in the book. 'There just ain't no such thing as a free lunch'-i love heinlein

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~Luthy-star Jul 15, 2005, 9:05:29 PM
Very creative :D I LIKE Harry Potter, so I'm not with you on the criticism, but I think it's witty and clever. (I'm Luthy from TORC, by the way, followed the link in your sig.) Out of curiosity... what exactly about HP is it that bothers you so much?

I'd say the only thing about this that really bothers me is the part where you set it on fire. Reminds me WAY too much of things like Fahrenheit 451... book burnings make me :'( whether it's Harry Potter or Mein Kampf or the Bible or Koran or anything else... trying to eliminate ANY point of view (or even work of fiction) is dangerous.

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Anyway, it's clever! Is there a precedent for this sort of thing, "book alterings"? Or did you come up with it on your own? :)

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~ShanndrahEartheart Jul 16, 2005, 11:50:08 AM
I actually wasn't trying to eliminate a point of view, but instead just make a point. I suppose what bothers me most about Harry Potter is the fact that it is obvious that most of her ideas she ripped off of bad '80s books, and her writing is pretty bad. Her sentence structure is lacking, her descriptions are empty, and her story could do with some definite re-vamping (Hey, I know that what I post here isn't that great...but it is to make it look like i am doing something. All of my other stuff is safely stored on a different computer)

A lot of the book centred around destruction and traditional ideas of magic. It went back to prices and whatnot. I thought that the flame was fitting.

and I guessed you were luthy, the name is a giveaway.

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~Luthy-star Jul 18, 2005, 11:16:57 AM
Gah, sorry about that, my computer's being a bit crazy...

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~ShanndrahEartheart Jul 18, 2005, 12:54:18 PM
there is a precedent. It was an extra-credit assignment given to me by one of my teachers. I know for a fact that others on deviant art do altered books. I saw a discussion on it once in a forum.

when I started on this subject, my thought was, how the hell can I mess up a book...but one you start, it is absolutely amazing. It really makes you think. I think everyone should alter a book sometime in there life, if only to feel the initial shock of committing sacrilige.

Also, there is a frend of mine on here, aetris, who altered a book when I did. Unfortunately, he hasn't posted it.

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~Luthy-star Jul 25, 2005, 5:21:09 PM
Very cool. :D Maybe I will try it sometime... *tries to find suitable book*

By the way, how did you get that awesome cover? Did you cut all the way through the hard cover?

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~ShanndrahEartheart Jul 26, 2005, 10:18:52 AM
I took a distant cousin of an exacto-knife, and sawed through the cover. In and of itself it took quite a few hours to cut out the diamonds on both covers. Then I glued strips of construction paper to the inside.

Most of the kids used out of date teen psychology books from the fifties...and other such nonsense pieces, but I had fun bringing in my own books The other two prospectives were a philosophy text, and a lit and composition text.

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~Luthy-star Jul 27, 2005, 10:19:16 PM
Oh, too bad I don't have my philosophy textbook from last semester anymore, I hated that thing with a passion... I don't hate philosophy, but this textbook was the stupidest thing I've ever read in my life!!

Maybe some Freud... :P

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~Luthy-star Jul 18, 2005, 11:15:10 AM
Yeah, it kind of is, isn't it :D

Well, thanks for explaining. And you weren't doing mass burnings of all the copies you could lay your hands on or anything... ;)

Anyway, as I said, I think it's clever and creative... though I'd still like to know (because I'd like to see some others if there is) if there's a precedent for this, somewhere you got inspiration from, or if you came up with it on your own? It's a neat idea either way... :)

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How dazzlingly brilliant of you, the bird snapped icily
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~Luthy-star Jul 18, 2005, 11:14:40 AM
Yeah, it kind of is, isn't it :D

Well, thanks for explaining. And you weren't doing mass burnings of all the copies you could lay your hands on or anything... ;)

Anyway, as I said, I think it's clever and creative... though I'd still like to know (because I'd like to see some others if there is) if there's a precedent for this, somewhere you got inspiration from, or if you came up with it on your own? It's a neat idea either way... :)

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~LostLove14 Jul 9, 2005, 1:47:41 PM
*clenches heart and falls over dead* Ouch. That was like a stake through the heart...

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