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Post by Percy Rivers on Jul 31, 2007 1:30:57 GMT -5
Okay since no one else brought it up I might as well. Who has read and finished DH? Who here loved it? I'll admit there were a few things in JK's writing that I had a beef with, but I think it was some of her best writing to date. The Forest Again and King's Cross were her best chapters in that book. I particularly like these two quotes: "Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, more aware of his own living body than ever before. Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain, and nerve and bounding heart?" (The whole chapter "The Forest Again" is awesome) and "Of course it is happening inside your head, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" Anyways what did you think of J.K. Rowling's last HP book?
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Post by Teirney Lannister on Jul 31, 2007 2:08:09 GMT -5
Of course. It was amazing. I loved the whole thing with Snape; it was so unexpected and just...GAH, his memories totally made me cry like a little loser. Oh well, this coming from someone who cried when Lady got her head lopped off ;D Anywyas, I really liked it and how everything got tied together and what not. I didn't like the epilogue so much though, because it felt like JKR was trying so hard to fit everything in...so it felt sort of fake and forced. But I can understand that situation, since all her fans would be equally upset if her epilogue was too vague. So basically, the book rocked =]
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Post by serdonaltyrell on Jul 31, 2007 3:04:18 GMT -5
Well I'll start off by saying I'm not a massive fan of her work, although I've read all her books. I have issues with the style of her writing and she suffers from "Jordan-itus" a little with all the repetitive moments like Ron and Harry falling out, in every single book, Hermione trying to keep them together and focussed etc. Plus I suppose I resent that Harry doesn't even appear to be that good a wizard, just very very lucky. I think the last book is similar to Order of the Phoenix in that it suffers from a lot of padding in the middle section. The beginning and end are well paced and crack on but in the middle section I had to fight the urge to keep turning the page. I suppose I'm just glad it's all over now. I even managed to get a few of the twists ahead of time which is most unlike me  |
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Post by guest1 on Jul 31, 2007 15:22:14 GMT -5
I haven't read yet and truth be told: I am not even interested. I'll just wait until the worst traffic in the libraries has ceased and after that, I will read it without paying a cent.
(But I am going to buy a dance with dragons on the very moment it arrives to this outlying forest called finland) ;D
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Post by sire on Jul 31, 2007 20:00:47 GMT -5
The book has just mailed to me recently, and I haven't read it yet.
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Post by sara on Aug 1, 2007 10:46:51 GMT -5
I liked it but I do think the epilogue was completely unnecessary, I didn't like that at all. Also, I think this might just be me and my family but we all think more important people should have died (coughHARRYcough) because it all semed a bit wishy washy at the end.
But don't get me wrong I really liked it!!!! ;D
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Post by Percy Rivers on Aug 1, 2007 10:56:51 GMT -5
Did anyone esle take into account the fact that both the HARRY LIVES!!! camp and the HARRY DIES!!! camp were right? I found that kind of cool.
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Post by melon on Aug 1, 2007 15:52:12 GMT -5
I have to say it come on Harry wins on a technicality
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Post by Percy Rivers on Aug 1, 2007 18:16:35 GMT -5
Good ole, Deus Ex Machima.
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Post by Teirney Lannister on Aug 1, 2007 18:25:28 GMT -5
I never though JKR would kill him off. I knew Harry was horcrux (it just made sense) but I still thought she find a way around that that. Him dying would leave too many little kids emotionally scarred  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2007 23:03:49 GMT -5
I've never liked Rowling's prose, and her characterization is sometimes pretty shaky - but she always had strong plotlines, until HBP and DH. But really, DH was her weakest book so far, IMO. Couldn't stand the way it ended, deus ex machina galore.
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Post by sara on Aug 2, 2007 4:07:29 GMT -5
Yep, Harry as a horcrux meant Harry should have died. And I mean stayed dead. End of.
She always said she's stuck with the basic original ending that she came up with at the very beginning, when it was still being written as an adult book. Now I find it pretty hard to belive that she didn't just bring Harry back to placate all the kids who would have gone completely mental if he'd actually died.
I think it's the fact that he won't stay dead and the epilogue that spoil it.
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Post by Lilith Royce on Aug 2, 2007 7:20:53 GMT -5
As I am a big fan of happy endings I had no objection to Harry staying alive. I read it while travelling and didn't really get into it in the beginning or middle, but did find the end quite exciting (stayed up late reading when I should have been sleeping in prep for a brutal trip). I also liked the epilogue as it set up the next series...
Lupin & Tonks kid (a HP like orphan though raised by people who love him but prolly with a werewolf problem like dad).
Various little Potters, Weasleys and Malfoys to play with.
Neville as a professor.
Sounds like a second Hogwarts series to me!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2007 9:25:04 GMT -5
Oh gods, I hope not. I thought the same thing when I finished: "She's got it all set up for a second Hogwarts spin-off moneymaker." Sorry to be so mean and cynical. I'll shut up now.  |
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Post by sara on Aug 2, 2007 9:25:40 GMT -5
It does sound like a plan for a second series. I'm not sure about whether I'd like it or not though, if there was one.
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