User blog:Zaffie/Worst News For A Long Time (or, Everyone Feel Sad Please)

There are several sucky problems on the agenda right now, so I thought I'd blog sadly about them.

Diana Wynne Jones, who is an incredibly awesome author, and if you haven't read her stuff your life is not complete, just died, aged 74. It makes me very very sad, because I suddenly realised she was my favourite author right after she died. She was funny, witty, sarcasticly awesome, wrote some of the best characters ever, and also Welsh. She wrote books like the Chrestomanci series, The Ogre Downstairs, and Howl's Moving Castle (and NO, the film is NOT ANY GOOD. PLEASE don't say you like the film in my earshot. It will make things explode). So it's really awful to think that there will never be any new books from her ever again.

On another note, I'm not sure how many of you know this, but I am an avid hater of anime, and manga comics (aka backwards books). I REALLY can't stand it. So I'm sure you can imagine how very GRUMPY I am after learning that another one of my favourite series, Deltora Quest by Emily Rodda, has been turned into a RUBBISH anime series. And I mean, even by the incredibly low standards of anime, this thing is BAD. REALLY BAD.

So I am very very miserable. Everyone else should be miserable too. :-(