i bought the book at the fest but have yet to crack a page(although i am about half way through r.j. jamison's tome).
but the truth is that i bought it more as a gesture of support for lara parker than for any interest i might actually have in it's "plot".
i guess for me my enjoyment of the show is in the total picture.not just the characters but the actors who played them then...their faces,their voices.the music,the sets,the clothes.for me it just doesn't translate well to any other medium.i love the naive,time-capsule element of it.
i enjoyed the first of the new audiodramas but mostly for the "goosepimplyness" of hearing those voices and that music combined again.to tell you the truth i pretty much forget the plot just a few days later.
i intend to read lara's book and i'll either like it or not but it won't factor into my feelings about the show itself.
in truth the story that lara the author is telling now just isn't as compelling to me as the one lara the actor,portraying an impossibly gorgeous,twenty-year-old witch,told then.the eyes alone more telling than anything written on a page.
for this reason i've never had much interest in fan-fiction either.
besides,with so many new offerings,many involving the same key participants,telling such wildly differing stories,it's impossible for me to square this with "canon" and have it be real.
in terms of comtemporary literary offerings i enjoy the non-fiction biographies best.i liked "the bennett's,an acting family" and am enjoying "a hard act to follow" despite the fact that i'm not otherwise remotely interested in the theater arts.
all this said i'm glad these new works are in production and i hope they are well-liked.just in terms of my own feelings about it the original is where i'm at.