Good Riddance to Potter
Finally, the last Harry Potter book is out. Let the mini-brained festivities commence.
I liked the first four or so books, but you can only just barely escape Voldemort a certain number of times before it gets ridiculous. You know Harry can't die before the last book, so the other 600 or so pages are just filler to keep you interested and to keep J.K. Rowling rich. It's no skin off my nose if Potter finally kicks it in the last book.
Of course, the worst part of it is the people who, despite being awfully thickheaded, hold themselves to be scholars for reading Rowling's invariably massive books. Never mind the fact that they barely scrape through English classes and couldn't spell their way out of a simple writing prompt; they can read entertaining books written to accommodate the semantic level of a third grader.
I'll no doubt be reading the 7th book soon, although there is definitely some doubt as to whether it's even worth reading. I mean, Rowling finished the last chapter back in 1999. She can't be that great of a writer if it took the editors this long to rewrite her book.
July 21st, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Phil, I have one thing to say. at least it isn't the order of the phoenix again. the latest book (i'm 500+ pages AIT [As I type {yay made up internet acronyms!} ] ) manages to recapture some of the originality that the first few had. It's not horribly grim, Harry has stopped swearing for the heck of it, and it is vaguely interesting. You may think that the ending is set in stone (it is... but can you blame her?), but the quest for the wizards equivalent of the holy grail is very... ummm... I suppose you could compare it to star wars III: you know exactly how it's going to end, but the sense of completion is exactly why you read it anyways.
/Rant
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