I just finished reading the latest Harry Potter book this morning on the bus to work. I'm impressed – compared to the last 2 books, it's quite well written and the storyline is solid. I'm really looking forward to the last book in the series, but that'll probably be in a few years now.
I've been giggling a bit to myself lately because people seem to be losing their collective minds over this book. The tin-foil hat brigade is out big-time online to try and figure out what's going to happen in the last book. I've also been amused at the antics of people who try and piss off the most people by randomly posting spoilers online. Hell, there have even been reported incidents of “drive-by spoilage” where people drive by bookstores and yell stuff out their car windows. Gotta love the fandom and the fan-bashers :)
Oh, while I'm thinking of it, does anybody in Montreal have my copy of Order of the Phoenix? I can't seem to find it here and it's aggravating me to no extent :(
Weird. So far I seem to be the only one who doesn't know what to think of the new Potter book.
I really liked reading it, but for some reason didn't manage to immerse myself in it as thoroughly as in the last two.
I thought the reason for the title was a genuinely poor one, and while there's lots of stuff happening in this book, I felt that there was still too much left out to justify some of the plot elements.
Of course, a lot of those will probably be explained in the last book – but for example Dumbledore's and Harry's quest seems “thrown in” to me. It could, and probably should have been an exceptionally gripping part of the story – yet somehow to me it wasn't.
I'm going to re-read the book, as I've got an idea that a lot of my “ungrippedness” could be attributed to a really bad bout of migraine that day.
But migraine or not – I found some of Dumbledore's/Harry's speeches in this book slightly scary.
I mean, “But if it is, […]I'll make sure I take as many Death Eaters with me as I can, and Voldemort too if I can manage it” – “Spoken both like your mother and father's son and Sirius's true godson!”??
…and later on the dialogue at the end of the chapter “Horcruxes” really irritated me.
I loved the personal development of the characters, but the overall plot somehow left me… unsatisfied. And not just because there's another book to come.
Hm. Like I said, I still liked the book. But I'm not at all sure if I'd say it's the best of the series so far, as so many people seem convinced it is.
…hoping the re-read will change that.
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It's not me… I stole my sister's copy and still haven't read it yet.
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You can read it while I read Book 6. I just bought it this afternoon. ;D
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You think I'll let you read while you are here?
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Good point. I'd better finish it on the plane, eh? ;D
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Uh huh… unless you read it to me… after you've translated it into french :D
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Oooh, you twisted my rubber arm. ;D
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Then again, you could read the instructions… say for the toaster oven… and I would be happy.
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*cough*easy*cough*
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like Sunday morning ;D
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hmmm, can't wait for Sunday morning. ;D
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*grins*
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