So can we actually discuss the book now? (SPOILERS WITHIN)

[PK]

I think the disappearance of the senior/administrative wizards has to be related to something that's going on well beyond earth. The absences are too far reaching. (Sure, they do call in wizards from other planets at times to help with things -- but that many? Doesn't seem likely....)

...You know, on another subject, that comment about if Nita ever came to perceive herself as fictional reminds me of the one about Dairine probably not being (comparatively) too far away since she'd been stuck on Star Wars instead of Heinlein.

[Gryphon]

I found myself reading the begging of 'A Wizard's Holiday." Ugg. Don't want to do that. *Slaps hand* I should wait for the book to come out in paperback! It stinks waiting... I saw the hardcover a few days ago. Hardcover=thick, more expensive, looks funny next to all the other 'Young Wizards' books. I'll spoil it if I read ahead. But I love this series!!!

-MaThFrEaK

[Agent M]

Oh come on, just buy it! Raise $$, it's EASY. Especially during the fall, excuse me, AUTUMN. Ask to rake the leaves for money, babysitting, bagging the leaves, cleaning a siblings room for money (if you have a siblings), anything! But don't do that to yourself!! I couldn't STAND waiting. But if you want to wait for a year.... *shudders* your decision.

*Agent~M*
"Those who refuse the Powers, become the tools of the Powers, Those who agree to help the powers, Themselves become the Powers. Beware the Choice! Beware refusing it!"-Young Wizards books.
"Do what the night tells you, and read the fine print before you sign!" -Peach.

BUY IT! I would never be able to wait that long...it drives me crazy that someone could wait that long.

Anyways, I agree with Agent M, your decision, I admire your patience... tsk tsk Skitty you and db_pr shouldn't read the spoiler topic when you haven't read the book. (I took a quick look at this topic too before I read the book...*blushes*...i'm just as guilty..., I have the patience of a two year old..)

" Duct tape, the stuff that holds the universe together."A Wizard Alone by Diane Duane
- Serena

[Rysade]

[PK]

Actually, while the first few each self-contain pretty well, I wouldn't say they don't have much continuity... Deep Wizardry definitely leans on SYW -- I'm sort of expecting a similar connection with the binding oath, in fact, though perhaps with a longer delay. And High Wizardry resolves the stuff that started in Deep with Dairine's observant-ness. Having a specific question/plot treated the way the leakage or Ponch's new ability is across several books is a bit different, though, yes.

[EWizard11]

Re Nita perceiving herself as fictional: For an interesting take on that, check out Sophie's World (yes, okay, I'll plug it whenever I get the chance...but it's really good. Check it out.)

*Ella*

"'I wish none of this had happened.'
'So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.'"
-The Fellowship of the Ring

[readingqueen]

Skitty, you have to buy it! I was going to have to wait for paperback too, but i did what Agent M suggested. It's completely worth it. god, now i can't wait for the next one to come out. Did anyone else find it interesting how the LP commented on how it and Nita would make a good team? I mean, later on couldn't that tie in with how LP had before said how it couldn't wait for Nita to betray Kit? I don't know...it's just a thought. I hope that it doesn't turn out that Nita betray's Kit, though!. I would be so sad!

"It was my turn to save you, that's all. Now I want a few weeks off..."

it's not dying for a friend that's hard...no, what's hard is finding a friend worth dying for.

[papercrane]

I've literally got two minutes, but I NEEDED to tell everyone--
I GOT IT!!!AND I READ IT!!!YAAAAY!!!
*jumps up and down screaming like an idiot*

"That's right," he said. "We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am."
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
*Look kindly upon the decaffienated one*
http://pub15.ezboard.com/ftimeheartf...opicID=3.topic

[EWizard11]

Good for you!!

Readingqueen: I hope that never happens!! Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever!! Never!! That would be awful! I hope nothing ever comes of it...

*Ella*

"'I wish none of this had happened.'
'So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.'"
-The Fellowship of the Ring

[Agent M]

NO! They can never work away from each other AGAIN!! I HATED how they weren't together in books 5 and 6. And Nita will NEVER join with the LP, you guys know that.

*Agent~M*
"Those who refuse the Powers, become the tools of the Powers, Those who agree to help the powers, Themselves become the Powers. Beware the Choice! Beware refusing it!"-Young Wizards books.
"Do what the night tells you, and read the fine print before you sign!" -Peach.

[FireWitch]

Wut if she has to because joining the "reformed" LP is more right then fighting the "bad" LP?

Scary thought.....

A Jedi Ewok
And proud of it...

Loyal reader of Harry Potter and Young Wizards books, great lover of Moon Cakes, and self-proclaimed Queen of Halloween...

[Gryphon]

If Nita did join the Lone Power... Ugg. I hope it doesn't have bad results!!!
As for Kit, I hope nothing bad happens there either. If Kit dies ... That would be awful.

-MaThFrEaK

[KsSk8er]

NOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kit can't die!!!!!!!! Kit, I'm here for you!!
And I really really hope Nita doesn't join the LP.... ditto Skitty and Firewitch's thoughts.
....
--Faoyli
"would you give it all up, for yourself or give your life for someone closer than a friend, who you'll share the magic with till the end// do something braver than cross the sstree// heres the beat to the heart, the heart of time....In Lifes name...."
--the most dtupid song in the world....its stupid....because I wrote it.

~*KsSk8er*~
Hogwarts Dropout
"She leaped off the table and tore into the living room. There was a brief sound of scrabbling, and then from the living room, Kit said, "Uh, Annie, your cat just went up the chimney..."
Dai Stiho

[PK]

Wut if she has to because joining the "reformed" LP is more right then fighting the "bad" LP?

Scary thought.....

Well, it isn't really, is it? If the aspect they're dealing with is redeemed, then It's gone and joined them, which is perfectly all right. It's dealing with the in-between or mixed aspects like Esemeli that gets exceptionally confusing. (It really doesn't help when the LP may be just as confused.)

But I think the Lone Power's needling Nita on the subject is just that -- needling, picking on her, trying to undermine her confidence in herself. To some extent it was working, for a while at least -- we all saw how much trouble she had with the idea of turning to Kit for help in Dilemma (when she used to be able to "give herself away" and throw all her wizard's power over to him without hesitating -- she hesitated in DW because it was someone else, Ed), and how little the Lone Power wanted her to overcome that. But Ronan got warned about "the myth of self-sufficiency" in Abroad, and I think Nita's come around -- passed her crisis point, at least that one.

Actually, I thought when I read Alone that letting Nita save the day the way she did was probably a deliberate way to address that, to some extent -- her side of the "drifting" between her and Kit has been addressed in Dilemma, but in Alone, Kit ends up with a different variety and Nita, in the course of Doing What's Needed, gets a chance to be very competent on her own. I have the feeling DD probably did this in part to balance things a bit and for confidence-development purposes, and I wouldn't be entirely surprised if there is considered to be some engineering going on in that direction within the story either.