So I read the book
2005-08-04 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadethorneggeSo I read the latest Harry Potter book. Started it yesterday, finished it today. It wasn't bad at all. Aside from the frantic pace of the book and barely enough signposting of where in the year we were.
Anyway, now continues the worst bit about reading a series as they're being written - waiting for the next one. Incidentally also the last in this series, if we are to trust the author. I wonder what will go down. Undoubtedly I'll manage just fine with the wait though - to me, this is not the most brilliant series ever omg omg omg! that everybody else who reads it seems to think.
Moderately entertaining, I do like the Hogwarts experience, but since that is already an established piece of scenery/prop by book six we don't get as much of that as in the earlier books.
I find it fascinating the amount of time people spend speculating and guessing about what will happen next. I seriously don't understand the point of it. Yes, I can ponder to myself, ooh what about Snape now then, and Ginny's being put on the shelf a bit too easily and what about Dumbledore after this? But I've never considered going back over the first five books with a fine-toothed comb trying to suss out which throwaway line will be the hint that foreshadowed everything in this book and which will be hinting at book seven.
Ah well. I do read - now that I've finished the book - the posts I come across of people digesting it because I'm simply curious like that about what people think. Some ideas seem to be stupid and I scoff at them, others I go 'hmm' at. I'll probably have forgotten it all by the time I get a hold of the last book though as it's not yet written and I'm not about to pre-order that one either.
Anyway, now continues the worst bit about reading a series as they're being written - waiting for the next one. Incidentally also the last in this series, if we are to trust the author. I wonder what will go down. Undoubtedly I'll manage just fine with the wait though - to me, this is not the most brilliant series ever omg omg omg! that everybody else who reads it seems to think.
Moderately entertaining, I do like the Hogwarts experience, but since that is already an established piece of scenery/prop by book six we don't get as much of that as in the earlier books.
I find it fascinating the amount of time people spend speculating and guessing about what will happen next. I seriously don't understand the point of it. Yes, I can ponder to myself, ooh what about Snape now then, and Ginny's being put on the shelf a bit too easily and what about Dumbledore after this? But I've never considered going back over the first five books with a fine-toothed comb trying to suss out which throwaway line will be the hint that foreshadowed everything in this book and which will be hinting at book seven.
Ah well. I do read - now that I've finished the book - the posts I come across of people digesting it because I'm simply curious like that about what people think. Some ideas seem to be stupid and I scoff at them, others I go 'hmm' at. I'll probably have forgotten it all by the time I get a hold of the last book though as it's not yet written and I'm not about to pre-order that one either.
