Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Curris]

I started a new thread. Under the Reviews tab, as it deals with movies. Maybe it should be in general, but it likely doesn't matter. Have fun folks!

[Zone]

Okay I read it, I'll try to stay spoiler free.

a big chunk of the first third I found unutterably slow. After that I thought she handled the casualties in a kind of paint by numbers fashion.  I expected just about everything that happened with only two exceptions; one I'm okay with one I disapprove of, but since it was so casually handled there wasn't much of an emotional impact.

I guess over all I'd have to give it maybe a C plus.

[Jester]

I'll give it an A. I thought it was the best one. Kinda hard to really say anything without giving stuff away...

[APOCALYPSE]

I finished it myself and I would have to give it a B. It was about what I expected but I was hoping for a bit more closure at the end.

[Zone]

Despite my ongoing belief she really needs a hard assed editor, I'd have to give the 'best' nod to her first.  It was after all the scene setter, and rather inventive.

[kv]

You wanted MORE closure at the end? How is that even possible?

  You did read the chapter "Nineteen Years Later," right?

  -kv

[APOCALYPSE]

Yeah, but what did the brother's do with the shop especially because of what happened in the end in the castle? What jobs did everybody get, not counting Neville? How are the Weasley Parents? Basically, things like this? Who got to be Prime Minister? These are the things that I wanted to know.

[Zone]

That's what we have fanfic for.

[kv]

Yeah, and I'm sure after J.K. is dead, they'll bastardize her characters, legitimize fanfic, and her son/daughter will get credit for "an all new adventure!" and then complain that thier parent got shafted on the movie rights.

Wait... I'm thinking Herbert and Tolkein.

  -kv

[Jester]

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/7/30/j-k-rowling-web-chat-transcript

spoiler alert! Read here for some answers

[kv]

Heh. I guess that answers a lot of Apoc's questions.

  -kv

[Gabriel]

I finished it myself and I would have to give it a B. It was about what I expected but I was hoping for a bit more closure at the end.

Sorry chummer, but if she got into all of that drek, we would have been reading a Stphen King Novel. Quite often, an ending in the vein of HO #7 is the best way to end a story. You get closure for the main characters, and yet it leaves enough material opened to interpretation to let your imagination fill in the blanks. It also stops an uneccessarily long and drawn out quasihistory of the entire setting, which ultimately degrades the work.

And I've said it before, and I'll say it again: J. K. Rowling is not a very good author (although she has improved tremendously since #1) but she had a good story. J. R. R. Tolkein was the same way. Great story, drekky writing style. And at least you can't say that the Harry Potter books were "derivitive of Tolkien" like nearly every other fantasy work gets labled these days.

Gabriel

Gabriel

[Jester]

I've also heard she's thinking of writing a book that takes place in those 19 years and donate the proceeds to charity.

[Zone]

I agree with Gabe (surprisingly) She really isn't a good writer.  She has good ideas and an okay sense of story - but technically, I can write rings around her and I'm never going to be as rich as her.  How fair is that.

[Jester]

life is never fair...