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Well, I just finished reading Order of the Phoenix
THAT. FUCKING. BITCH.
I'm never reading another Harry Potter book as long as I live. I can't fucking believe what an atrocity this fucking 5th book was, nor can I believe I wasted my whole Sunday reading that pitiful excuse for a continuation of a good story.
No spoilers here. Just know that I'm fucking pissed off. I'm not kidding, I'm not sure I can even think of any of the other Harry Potter stuff again without wanting to hurl all of the other books into a bonfire or something. What a LOAD OF CRAP. I hope she dies.
For the record, I was right about every single thing in the book EXCEPT the one most important thing. I just can't fucking believe it. I had heard the predictions and the "spoilers" about it and just ignored them because it didn't make any fucking sense...
And as I was just saying, too... there are good moments in the book, that is true - but a LOT of it was gut-wrenchingly painful to read. I mean, sure, we're all used to reading about people being mean and/or unfair to Harry but for crying out loud, 600 pages of it is more than anyone should have to take. Bleh. I really don't think the ending or the few cool scenes (or the Weasleys) make up for the rest of it.
So usually I'd write an entry about what I did today, but since basically I woke up, read the HP book, went to M+J's house, read the HP book there too, went to dinner at Bluwater with Megan, Josh, Justin, Colleen, Cory, Heidi, and Eli... came home, read the HP book some more... finished at 3am... I have nothing to say about today. And never in my life have I wanted to throw a book into a fire after reading it as with this one. Except Eli needs to finish it and Megan wanted to borrow my copy too.
The odd thing is that tonight at dinner I was remembering how the last Harry Potter book came out on July 8 2000 or so... the same week I started playing DDR (on that July 4th at SVGL with Tim Showalter). On the night HP4 came out I was in downtown Palo Alto with Tim, and Erik Ogan and Matt Andrews and some other people and we were all like "why is there such a big crowd at the bookstore?" and it was because the HP book was out... except I ended up ordering it off Amazon along with a copy of Mastering Regular Expressions. Yeah. Anyway, I dunno, it feels like I've been playing DDR forever, it's funny to realize that it's been 3 years, and also 3 years since the last HP book. And do we have to now wait another 3 years to find out how she's going to make up for this pile of crap? I have to wonder if I care anymore. And I'm sure in a few days I'll have calmed down, but for now I just hate J.K.Rowling with a passion.
I'm never reading another Harry Potter book as long as I live. I can't fucking believe what an atrocity this fucking 5th book was, nor can I believe I wasted my whole Sunday reading that pitiful excuse for a continuation of a good story.
No spoilers here. Just know that I'm fucking pissed off. I'm not kidding, I'm not sure I can even think of any of the other Harry Potter stuff again without wanting to hurl all of the other books into a bonfire or something. What a LOAD OF CRAP. I hope she dies.
For the record, I was right about every single thing in the book EXCEPT the one most important thing. I just can't fucking believe it. I had heard the predictions and the "spoilers" about it and just ignored them because it didn't make any fucking sense...
And as I was just saying, too... there are good moments in the book, that is true - but a LOT of it was gut-wrenchingly painful to read. I mean, sure, we're all used to reading about people being mean and/or unfair to Harry but for crying out loud, 600 pages of it is more than anyone should have to take. Bleh. I really don't think the ending or the few cool scenes (or the Weasleys) make up for the rest of it.
So usually I'd write an entry about what I did today, but since basically I woke up, read the HP book, went to M+J's house, read the HP book there too, went to dinner at Bluwater with Megan, Josh, Justin, Colleen, Cory, Heidi, and Eli... came home, read the HP book some more... finished at 3am... I have nothing to say about today. And never in my life have I wanted to throw a book into a fire after reading it as with this one. Except Eli needs to finish it and Megan wanted to borrow my copy too.
The odd thing is that tonight at dinner I was remembering how the last Harry Potter book came out on July 8 2000 or so... the same week I started playing DDR (on that July 4th at SVGL with Tim Showalter). On the night HP4 came out I was in downtown Palo Alto with Tim, and Erik Ogan and Matt Andrews and some other people and we were all like "why is there such a big crowd at the bookstore?" and it was because the HP book was out... except I ended up ordering it off Amazon along with a copy of Mastering Regular Expressions. Yeah. Anyway, I dunno, it feels like I've been playing DDR forever, it's funny to realize that it's been 3 years, and also 3 years since the last HP book. And do we have to now wait another 3 years to find out how she's going to make up for this pile of crap? I have to wonder if I care anymore. And I'm sure in a few days I'll have calmed down, but for now I just hate J.K.Rowling with a passion.
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..I was never a fan of the crap in the first place but one of the few things I can share with my nephew (now 7 years old) so I've read them all to and, most recently, with him. NOW...I haven't gotten the new one yet and now, wow...I was a bit let down with #4...a little too dark and disjointed...this one is really that bad?
I must know more. Spoil the damned thing, I don't care...Who dies?
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Just talking about this the other day
I've never read the HP books and don't really understand the hype, but I do think it's a great thing that children are reading.
Yesterday I was talking to my roomate and another friend, both of whom went to the bookstore at like the ass crack of dawn to get it. I was saying that it seems to me with the fervor that the book has picked up, it is most likely going to crash with the same intensity. Nothing can maintain that sort of quick long-term intensity. I guess my prediction was true. I figured if this book wasn't bad at least by the last one, I'm sure alot of people would be upset because of over expectations.
Oh well, have to see if my roomate decides to shoot the book or something next week when he finishes. :)
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Overprinting? Suddenly soft demand? I wonder...
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I think we hit... nobody's going to pay $29.99 for it, but if we say that's what it costs and then give a steep discount, people will snatch them up because they are such a deal
*shrug*
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I'm not sure what you're attacking here - the story itself, or how Rowling told the story. I would agree that the way Rowling told the story was at times a bit annoying, and quite full of adolescent angst, but that it fits in with the series at large. Harry (and the rest) is 15 years old, he's hit full adolescence, and on top of the normal stuff kids go through he's dealing with a Dark Lord trying to kill him (among other things). I also feel that a lot of the story was working on setting up things for the end of the series, such as how Fudge (mis)handled the Ministry of Magic, what Umbridge did to Hogwarts, and how the Order of the Phoenix was working against the Death Eaters. There's quite a bit of subtle stuff going on in the background if you look beyond the "omg omg angst hate scar hurts" that Harry is going through. I think that the main characters grew up a good bit in this book, and that the last two novels will be much more adult. At some point there had to be a transition between a children's book and adult fiction, as Rowling always stated there would be, and it seems like the end of Year 4 and all of Year 5 has done that.
If nothing else, the book made you hurry up and read through it, and that surely has to count for something? :)
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Wouldn't that be the exact same thing. It's not like this is a remake of someone else's work.
"If nothing else, the book made you hurry up and read through it, and that surely has to count for something? :)"
Kindof the way you hurry through reading a book when it's a requirement for a class?
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[and note. contains spoilers (but there's enough of them in this comment area already, i think it's safe.)]
Yeah, there was lots of angst in this book. And like dave said, the friends fighting thing was kind of strange, but that (not the angst, but the friend conflicts), I think is probably makes the book better. Like the whole bit with Snape and Sirius, and Molly fighting everyone being uberprotective. It certainly beats bland characters who "don't fight because they're on the same team," like some sort of D&D quest or something ;)
Harry's angst/fighting with friends was ... tolerable. At least I could sympathize with Harry usually (especially with his summer being lonely and crap. oh man. i wanted the summer part to end quick). My main complaint was that it's hard to believe Harry is so stupid! I mean, the mirror thing, falling for the trap at the end (despite hermione's spelling it out for him), inability to make up with Snape, inability to understand Cho, and of course not going to talk to people apparently just to make the story longer (but this hasn't changed since book 1 =P
Yeah, I dunno. The Angsty-Harry bit didn't really bother me so bad. I think because it's totally understandable to me to be in a "everyone sucks, why can't anybody help me! shut up! I won't let you help me!" kind of mood. Granted, I didn't do that in highschool...I didn't much of the normal highschool emotional development stuff like that I guess. I got hit with way more of that in college =p
replying to myself...
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I got into the HP craze late in the game, I think book 3 had just come out when I started reading them.
Read the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman if you haven't yet. It's being marketed as Harry Potter for grownups and I personally think it's a superior work. Also, Tom Stoppard is writing the screenplay for the film adaptation, so that by itself should be a recommendation for those books.
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At any rate, the books are what they are. I think they are good, but not sublime, fiction. I have enjoyed reading them, and i suspect i will continue to read them. (Actually, there are things that could happen that could turn me off, i guess i'll just have to see.)
So, Dee, can i have (read) your book now that you hate it?
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Sorry to hear the book was so bad.
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Never read the series. Probably won't until long after the hype and sizzle has died down ... then again I'm not such a big reader of fiction.
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And I thought this was kinda amusing... when u said u weren't gonna read another of her books ever again, but yet you wonder how she'll "redeem" herself in 3 years or so.