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bending_sickleI finished HP7 yesterday.
Ok, look, it was alright. That's it. It was an ok book.
I liked that tiny little insignificant details from previous books showed up in this one as significant details and/or plot points. (Some details materialized into things Much Too Convinient, though, which is annoying like hell.)
I liked the bits where The Trio were running around being Ye Heroic Trio. Heroic Harry is, unfortunately, a touch too heroic, noble and selfless. Boy needs a slap.
It was actually quite an enjoyable read.
But some things dragged on a bit, or didn't shock me at all.
Like Snape.
Not enough Snape.
The man gets like, two mentions, then a posthumous chapter which basically sums up his life.
The man's a double or triple spy who may or may not be good, or have ever been good, or bad, or anything, and we get nothing.
The man needs a book of his own. (Or, more probably, the thousands of fanfics that are out there and growing.)
Man also needed a much better death, but then JK seems to rule the Sucky and Emabarrasing Deaths. Sirius, anyone? "Killed by drapery" an' all. Not to mention Voldemort. (Killed by babe. Double-killed by love. Killed by boy-you-failed-to-kill-yet-again.)
My greatest complaint with this series is that it doesn't quite realize it's a kid's book. I mean, it raises a whole bunch of really interesting character conflicts - adult conflicts - and then just hides it under the carpet. I understand that the book is HPotter pov only - except when it bloody isn't, of course - so we can't delve much into other character's tribulations, but for fuck's sake, you could write a whole book on the stuff she's leaving out.
(Snape, Snape, Severus Snaaaaaape...)
And don't try and say that that's how it is when children's books insert adult points. NGaiman, bless him, knows better. In Coraline, he has an Evil Character. Now, he knows that the character has a whole lot more behind her than he's showing, but he doesn't enter into it because this is a kid's book. He gives you the Kiddies Size representation of this character, which is satisfying and doesn't leave you digging your nails into the cover saying, "Tell me more!"
Links of the Day:
Neil Gaiman at the San Diego Comic Con. *points* *squeels* There's kissin'! *melts into a gushing pile of goo* *loves sooo much*
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furius:
Jonathan Ross: We'd like now to do our tribute to Madonna and Britney Spears, to increase the queer comics. Don't leave me hanging, Neil. Let's give the people what they want, Neil. To a formerly straight man, ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry.
Neil Gaiman: Now I get to be in the English newspapers
* Jonathan Ross, the envy of many, many fangirls
Ok, look, it was alright. That's it. It was an ok book.
I liked that tiny little insignificant details from previous books showed up in this one as significant details and/or plot points. (Some details materialized into things Much Too Convinient, though, which is annoying like hell.)
I liked the bits where The Trio were running around being Ye Heroic Trio. Heroic Harry is, unfortunately, a touch too heroic, noble and selfless. Boy needs a slap.
It was actually quite an enjoyable read.
But some things dragged on a bit, or didn't shock me at all.
Like Snape.
Not enough Snape.
The man gets like, two mentions, then a posthumous chapter which basically sums up his life.
The man's a double or triple spy who may or may not be good, or have ever been good, or bad, or anything, and we get nothing.
The man needs a book of his own. (Or, more probably, the thousands of fanfics that are out there and growing.)
Man also needed a much better death, but then JK seems to rule the Sucky and Emabarrasing Deaths. Sirius, anyone? "Killed by drapery" an' all. Not to mention Voldemort. (Killed by babe. Double-killed by love. Killed by boy-you-failed-to-kill-yet-again.)
My greatest complaint with this series is that it doesn't quite realize it's a kid's book. I mean, it raises a whole bunch of really interesting character conflicts - adult conflicts - and then just hides it under the carpet. I understand that the book is HPotter pov only - except when it bloody isn't, of course - so we can't delve much into other character's tribulations, but for fuck's sake, you could write a whole book on the stuff she's leaving out.
(Snape, Snape, Severus Snaaaaaape...)
And don't try and say that that's how it is when children's books insert adult points. NGaiman, bless him, knows better. In Coraline, he has an Evil Character. Now, he knows that the character has a whole lot more behind her than he's showing, but he doesn't enter into it because this is a kid's book. He gives you the Kiddies Size representation of this character, which is satisfying and doesn't leave you digging your nails into the cover saying, "Tell me more!"
Links of the Day:
Neil Gaiman at the San Diego Comic Con. *points* *squeels* There's kissin'! *melts into a gushing pile of goo* *loves sooo much*
Transcription c/o
furius:Jonathan Ross: We'd like now to do our tribute to Madonna and Britney Spears, to increase the queer comics. Don't leave me hanging, Neil. Let's give the people what they want, Neil. To a formerly straight man, ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry.
Neil Gaiman: Now I get to be in the English newspapers
* Jonathan Ross, the envy of many, many fangirls
