Reviews for The Song of Odo

Reviews For: The Song of Odo

SuGaRLiLy 2007-07-27 ch 1,	abuseAwed am I at your tale of poor Odo's life, For 'tis filled with such sadness and woe. Such a clever, witty, great writer you are, I have only to say 'Bravo'!
InkandPaper 2007-06-27 ch 1,	abuseHaha, Gigglesworth and Wiggleswick! Amazing names :D Would love to live there, just for the sake of having it on my address. Anyway, really cool poem! Nice rhyme and funny, too! "The bull condescended to stop in his tracks And then drop to the ground, very dead." -- I love those lines :D Great job!!
Miranda Took 2006-07-24 ch 1,	abusefunny, and good rhyming. very good poem, in fact.
OddPossum 2006-02-01 ch 1,	abuseVery brilliant, a lovely read! claps
Nimbus 1944 2005-12-13 ch 1,	abuseThanks, all. As several have noted, BAGGE has another Odo tale, well worth the reading as might be expected. Please enjoy it at: Jo got the ball rolling with her four line ending; your challenge is to write your own Odo. Take him to new heroic heights and great sad angsty depths! Have a go!
Deb-lil 2005-12-10 ch 1,	abuseWoah! This is the second Odo poem I've read in two days. Yours and Bagge's. I notice the two of you had the same ending verse. Wierd. I liked this poem a lot. Odo the boy wizard...poor Odo. Man, his life was a wreck. I can't get over it, you know, so my review isn't going to be very articulate. He studied and worked but ol' Ginerva had bitten the big one. It's dramatic irony, I know, and I shouldn't be laughing...don't hate me, but I am. HA! Alright, I'm done. I'm going to give you another mention in my profile. Would this be two of your stories on my favorites list? I'll have to find a suitable place to put it... ~Deb-lil
Queen of the Badgers 2005-12-10 ch 1,	abuse...Why exactly were archaelogists digging up pubs in Dappling in the first place? Ah well. I love this poem! It's so well written - but poor Odo and his parents. Such an awful mishap, confusing an Otto with an Odo. An Otter with an Odour. And now the Odour's parents are in gaol! It's so sad, and awfully unjust... The farm girl must have had quite a dull life, if seeing a random stranger walking up the road with his pointed hat inside out was 'her first amuse of the day' - and right from their very first meeting, where one of them happens to have an inside-out hat, you can tell they're going to fall in love. Awh. 'I didn't come by to humiliate you'...sure. Odo's such a cheat. I suppose he just wants to impress his girl, but really, he could just charm up some flowers or something, that would work just as well. NO! That's terrible! What a waste of two young lives. Although Ginevra reminds me a lot of Ginny Weasley. Who I don't like. Ginny, Ginevra. Red hair, sappy and romantic, both go for the hero-type... Well, I like this poem a lot, as I have probably said before. I do not know why I decided to give you some sort of commentary on what I think of each thing that happens, but I'm not going back and erasing it now. Hurrah for the dragon! I can't believe that Gigglesworth and Wiggleswick are actual villages, the names are just so...they sound unreal. Your credits are interesting, I realise what you mean by Ron's kiss from Fleur now. I haven't heard the story of Ben Frankling meeting his wife-to-be before, maybe I should go find it... This review's getting very long now. Perhaps I should stop now. There's nothing else to say except that this poem is very well-written, funny, and that you should keep writing! QoB
Dead-Luthien 2005-12-09 ch 1,	abusereally wonderfull. I love your poem.
Bagge 2005-12-07 ch 1,	abuseAnother masterly instalment. The poetry is very good. You have a way with words which I envy. This poem is fun, it is exciting and it is as far as I can tell written with that certain tinkle in the eye that sees the funny in everything. Giggleswick and Wigglesworth indeed. The mention of Hogwarts was a nice touch (I would have enjoyed a few words about his school-days. Something for further fics, perhaps), and that the hero had an affair with a read-headed girl named Ginevra seems strangly familiar from somewhere... There were a number of passages I enjoyed even more then the rest. The very first paragraph for instance. The "happy day" - "farther away" rhyme was a good one and did together with the villages names set the feeling of the whole poem. "Otto the Thieving had done someone ill; They mistook his name and they seized Odo's parents..." -- Ah, tragedy! "Need I say he found the young lass quite attractive, From toe-tip to top of her highest red curl." - No need ;-) "ladylike, fainted;" - she knows her manners! "they ordered a feast of roast bull." - another use of having a wizard around. "O Odo, you're busy, with much on your hands..." - like, fighting a dragon? Just another day for the hero. All in all, very good poem. It gave me laughs, trills and a smile that will stay for awhile. The sad fate of Odo and his unfortunate wife-to-be, told with a humourous tune and a language worthy of any of the old anglosaxian sagas. Ah, and incidently, I most strongly urge you to have a look at my latest story. Please take my word for that it was written and ready before I read this. Still - there can't be too many heroic poems in the world, right? ;-)

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