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Originally Posted by greaterkhaan
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Originally Posted by sapi
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Originally Posted by Warluster
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I got... uh... emailed... the book, read it in one sitting (when I read, I read)
She's getting been getting more and more arrogant as a writer, you can tell - the books keep getting thicker and, though the plots are undeniably good, the quality of writing is actually pretty poor. Editors generally prune quite a lot of the manuscripts authors churn out - author's are generally too self-invloved to be able to filter out the good from the bad. The cheesiness is, of course, expected in a book aimed at a young audience.
I have a feeling that there were a few plot holes, and/or unsubstantiated leaps of logic, or I may have blanked out every now and then whilst reading - 6.30am is not a time to be finishing a book.
My only gripe with the deaths was
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As for her writing.
I'd say she is more like Dan Brown, who is an awful author but a very good storyteller.
Ah, I don't like JKR's writing, so I just watch the movies.
Harry Potter. Harry Potter? Harry PÓTTER? These books and films are to be collected and placed into a gigantic barrel filled with oil whereafter it is all set ablaze by the staccato of a fighter jet's gun.
*runs off*
Harry Pótter. Hah.
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Rowling hates her characters and have some weird death fetish. How else would you explain 12 deaths in one book?
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I was really disappointed in some parts.
Snape...
Snape...
Snape...
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Originally Posted by ShadesPanther
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My biggest gripes:
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Going to get it today. Was a big fan, but now I lost interest.
Is it just me, or are people going to look back at Harry Potter and ask, what the **** was that all about?
As a series it just doesn't seem to work. Books 1-3 are sort of sub Jennings boarding school japes for fairly young children. OK writing but not great. Books 4-5 suddenly take themselves seriously, with, you know EVIL, and civil servants (but I repeat myself). Poor writing, great length. Not really suitable for young children.
Books 6 and 7 I have no idea as I have not read them but I imagine more of the same.
Who is the series aimed at? Narnia, or LotR, have one target audience for the whole series. If you enjoy one, you can read all the others. This series, you can give the first three books to a 7-8 year old, but the last ones need an older reader if only for sheer stamina, not to mention deaths and stuff. On the other hand the first three are too twee for anyone over 10 to enjoy.
IMHO its two mini-series. She got lucky by the time she was writing book 4, readised that adults were, inexplicably, reading her kids' books and she was hot stuff publishing-wise, and went off on a turgid prose mega-bender.
Good luck to her, but I can't see the books having lasting appeal.
I started when I was 9 or something and now I'm 15 and I enjoyed reading them as I grew up.Quote:
Who is the series aimed at? Narnia, or LotR, have one target audience for the whole series. If you enjoy one, you can read all the others. This series, you can give the first three books to a 7-8 year old, but the last ones need an older reader if only for sheer stamina, not to mention deaths and stuff. On the other hand the first three are too twee for anyone over 10 to enjoy.
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Bought it now, I'm on page 35. :grin:
By tomorrow I'll finish it for sure...
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Originally Posted by greaterkhaan
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Though I did hate
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Gripes:
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Otherwise I enjoyed it.
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Spoiler tags, Edz?
They won't quite be necessary here. ~;)
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Originally Posted by Rythmic
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Anyone here go to Mugglenet forums?
Just finished it, reread the first five books over the weekend and stated the sixth on monday.
Overall I feel I've been overly critical of the series and that it is indeed a very good series. Not many fantasy series maintain a decent level of quality throughout 7 books (wheel of time .... ugh). The latter books are somewhat darker than the first few and aimed more at adults I'd say, though having reread the second and third book, they aren't exactly 'nice' books either.
The one big gripe I have with the series (I have several smaller ones too) is how one dimensional the 'houses' are portrayed, Slytherin=bad, Griffindor=good, Ravenclaw:okay, Huffledepuff=means well. Otherwise I feel most characters really grew throughout the series and the general plot really deepened (I didn't realize how much of a turning point the fourth book has been).
I didn't think there were too many deaths, considering the circumstances.
Good grief, this Potter mania is beginning to leach into my dreams, even though I haven't read the book yet, or seen the film. It basically involved me accompanying Harry Potter to the cinema, where he had his last fight with Voldemort and was killed. However, Voldemort didn't turn out to be such a bad chap in the end, so I decided to live out the rest of my days in BKS's and Beirut's Kingdom of Peace and Love, where I knew I would find sanctuary. Man, I visit this forum too much.:embarassed:
No you don't. You're as sane as we are all. ~;)
Half through it, I'm at the Gringotts chapter.
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My BIG gripes.
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And the biggest one of all
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Now comes the flood of fan fiction with
1. Poor writing
2. Bad plots
3. Made-up spells
That was actually fairly well explained, and I could understand that happening. My biggest gripe with the whole Voldemort-Harry thing was:Quote:
Originally Posted by edyzmedieval
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