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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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[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
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