Reviews for LOVE'S LABOURS, PARADISE LOST
tonksinger |
2008.03.26 - 01:29AM |
4: Patiently Receive My Medicine |
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This is wonderful. I'm an English nerd, so all the Shakespeare and eveything is wonderful for me. I love Severus in this - even though I generally prefer the slightly fluffier versions of him, this is perfect. And it's just plain erotic. Really nice. |
Sally Smarty Pants |
2008.03.05 - 02:44AM |
16: Epilogue, part 2 |
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Just finished re-reading this story after being away from it (and SS/OFC) for quite a few years. I can't believe that it still makes me cry horribly at the end; I guess that's the mark of a great story. |
Jess Woods |
2007.12.11 - 07:20PM |
16: Epilogue, part 2 |
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I am both sad and happy that I have finally finished reading this story. As I wrote before, it brought me to tears, but I also happened upon this story during a time when I should be writing a paper, and I just couldn't stop reading. Amazing. |
Jess Woods |
2007.12.11 - 06:50PM |
15: Epilogue |
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*sob* |
Jess Woods |
2007.12.11 - 06:29PM |
14: Thus Misery Doth Part the Flux of Company |
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crying now...how sad...come on snape! you know you love her! |
Jess Woods |
2007.12.11 - 04:17PM |
13: The Worst Fault You Have is to Be in Love, part 2 |
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severus + alcohol = angry, angsty, drunken severus....i feel bad for snape getting the wrong idea...he was going to be all sweet, greeting her for her first test...too bad rosalind had to get the brunt of it.. |
deathofme |
2007.08.30 - 11:36PM |
16: Epilogue, part 2 |
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Well, I think perhaps I should start at the beginning.
My first forays into this sordid world of fanfiction were clumsy oneshots and juvenile stories found on ff.net None of them really piqued my interest, surprise surprise, but I stumbled across Firefancies' Dark Potions and their fiction reccomendations (I see this website is now inaccessible, damn). I found RJ Anderson's Darkness and Light, and I found Love's Labours, Paradise Lost there. I was much younger then, and while I loved your story, I wasn't old enough to understand it. It did, however, solidify fanfiction as a form of literature and showed me just what lengths the odd medium could achieve. I have been impressed and startled by it ever since.
I am now older. It has been years since I last read this work, and I have only managed to find it again now. Over the years it has crept into my thoughts and lingered, but my first experience was so draining I was not sure if I had the endurance to read it again. While not being able to fully understand or appreciate it before, it nevertheless was a very powerful experience. It's only been recently I've been able to read it (and find it!) again. It is visceral, it is difficult, perverted, dark, twisted, intricate, complex and very beautiful. It is still painful for me to continue reading, and even more painful to look away. It is reminscent of Elisabeth Shue's "9 1/2 Weeks" but doesn't have the luxury of being over quickly. Your words cut to my very bone and every trek through leaves a part of me aching. Finishing it for the second time now, it is interesting, how different and yet how familiar it is. It's presence, however, has lingered ever since, and will probably continue to do so. Like a classic novel you never forget, it is like this slow-acting poison, I feel fresh pain thinking about it so I try to forget it, but I never can because I never want to. It is...complex, how this leaves me, but I want you to know you've achieved something incredible as a writer to affect someone so deeply. And I think it also will stay with me for a long time because it was through a coming of age that I read and thought and returned to it, and it is now associated with so much personal learning and growth.
I also see you haven't written in fandom for quite a while, or if you have, I can't find you. Which is understandable, I've been through it too, but I am not sad. There is this luminous piece of poetry you've left behind that hurts me, and it is important and essential and imperative because it hurts. Thank you. Thank you more than words can say. |
Carrot top |
2007.08.01 - 10:41AM |
16: Epilogue, part 2 |
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This is a brilliant story! Snape stayed in character for the whole story and the ending made me cry like a baby. Well done! |
brier rose |
2007.06.17 - 04:21PM |
16: Epilogue, part 2 |
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this is the first time a fan fic ever made me cry. like a baby, at that |
whiteroom |
2007.05.24 - 10:05AM |
16: Epilogue, part 2 |
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Agh! simply marvelous. this story has proved to be hugely distracting considering I'm currently in an exam period, but it was worth it! i just hope my thoughts don't wonder in my A Level english lit exam tomorrow! What's so interesting about Frankenstein anyway?
Totally agree with you on Snape's ultimate death in book 7, (i personally think he will fall defending Harry, yet perhaps this notion is a bit too Romantic,lol). Thanks for the great read. i will continue on to your other stories, just maybe after my exams! thankyou!
whiteroom |
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