i bet i'm the only one

[tgies]

I have not read the last Harry Potter book

I understand that aeris dies though

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[damordecai.livejournal.com]

its aerith u baka xD!!!!!

[lookpal.livejournal.com]

same
high five

[shemale.livejournal.com]

lololol

yes
also dil's really a dude, darth vader is really luke's father, and dumbledore di- o wait

[omgwtftoph.livejournal.com]

Snake kills Dumbledore, yeah.

[nathew.livejournal.com]

it turns out he was dead the whole time

apparently every scene that had red in it was a clue!

[darnn.livejournal.com]

What should have happened but didn't is that Harry died right at the beginning and the rest of the book was just everybody's pathetic attempts at survival as Voldemort ravaged England.

[korgmeister.livejournal.com]

No, see then the entire fucking book would have just been that stupid camping trip.

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

I haven't read *any* of the Harry Potter books.

[tgies.livejournal.com]

yain't missin' much

the first one came out when I was 9 or 10, so I had to read it

[bdu.livejournal.com]

I haven't read any of them, actually.

[tgies.livejournal.com]

that is because you are not a child

[bdu.livejournal.com]

Liar. Am too.

[tomf006.livejournal.com]

I read the leak a couple of days before just to be badass.

Then went to buy one at midnight and had a loud discussion of the plot in the queue.

In summary I either win or lose. I'm not sure.

[total-death.livejournal.com]

I started reading Harry Potter before it was total death popular and before the 4th book came out, then I was one of those people who eagerly awaited the books.. then after the fifth one came out it took me a whole summer to feel motivated enough to read it. Haha. I haven't read 6 or 7 either. I'm just going to wait for the movies because I am a lazy ass.

[lookpal.livejournal.com]

casually using your screen name in a sentence = A++++

[total-death.livejournal.com]

That was an accident :\

[tgies.livejournal.com]

yeah I got the first book like right after it came out and then my mom bought every one after that so I had to read them because hey books

I think the first and third ones were decent and the rest kinda sucked but hey it's kidzbooks they're about as challenging as a bowl of cold oatmeal

[tgies.livejournal.com]

1) Challenge == Quality

gravity's rainbow. bye

2) Books intended for Young Pppl cannot be at all objectively and actually good unless you are a kid.

what I meant is that children's books are typically rather light fare and not hugely intellectually stimulating (surprise) so we shouldn't really expect anything more of them

typically they try to be kind of "cinematic" like harry potter (not like "The car flipped a shitload of times and then exploded with fire and blowing up." but like you know what I mean) or just

like

try to be comprehensible to children

which is frequently not what i look for in a book

[tgies.livejournal.com]

gravity's rainbow is a neat enough idea but it lacks substance

it's more like Hey let's see how much shit we can put in a book

Im thomas fuckin pynchon

[korgmeister.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't bother reading it. Basically, it's awesome and then all of a sudden Harry & Friends are on this extended camping trip for about 300 pages where they make retarded decisions and Rowling shamelessly rips off Tolkein, boring and frustrating readers in the process.

Then there's some rather poorly executed cloak & daggers stuff (because Harry's a teenager and thus still pretty newbish at controlling his emotions) and then finally a big battle and then Rowling rips off Tolkein again as well as the Bible.

Oh yeah and there's that prologue which is best summed up as FUCK YOU FANFIC WRITERS, SUCK ON MY CANON OF FAIL!

I must admit, I read it mainly just because I wanted some sort of closure. But holy fuck that book could have done with editing.

[tgies.livejournal.com]

fantasy authors ripping off Tolkien? I DON'T BELIEVE IT

and yeah isn't it like EIGHT THOUSAND PAGES LONG? no pop fantasy crap has any excuse to be that long

[korgmeister.livejournal.com]

It's OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!

And yeah, the Harry Potter series jumped the shark with Goblet of Fire. That's the point at which Rowling clearly started to become a prima-donna and refused to let anyone else edit her work. Just compare Prisoner of Azkaban, my favourite because it's so fast-paced and action-packed with Goblet of Fire, which is mostly just a really, really long episode of Scooby Doo with Hermione regularly pulling Mary Sue duties when Rowling writes herself into a corner.

Now, that was somewhat forgivable back when she used to use that extra length in order to fit in a whole bunch of worldbuildy fluff which, although irrelevant to the plot, was still rather nifty in a Pratchettesque kind of way.

However, most people who aren't foaming at the mouth Potter fans agreed that Deathly Hallows sucked all manner of balls. There was just so much shit in there which was meandering and completely uninteresting. If Rowling were willing to let her work be edited it never would have seen the light of day.

[tgies.livejournal.com]

"Worldbuildy fluff" -- I was trying to think of how to describe that before. That was actually one of the features of the first book I remember really liking when it came out.

I don't really even remember what happened in the fifth and sixth books, because they were so damn filler-y.

[korgmeister.livejournal.com]

That would be a pretty good evaluation of books 5-6. It was mainly character development and fluff.