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tealinSo ... that's it.
.... and I'm still awake.
Was it just me, or ... was it ... a little anticlimactic? WHOA! WHOA! STOP! It was good. In ... its way. But ... Well, I don't know what I wanted out of it. Somehow the ending was ... almost ... too normal. Though to be honest I was half expecting the book to consist of 'They all died' followed by fifty filler pages of Lorem Ipsum.* Every possible ending I could imagine seemed within the realm of possibility, but he's pulled another one of his tricks and ONCE AGAIN managed to come up with the most unexpected outcome, if only by doing what would be expected of anyone else.
I dunno, it just seems to be out of the tone of the rest of the series. The last three books seem to have sort of gradually drifted into a different universe. Maybe it's just me. They're less satirical but not really more of anything else to make up for it. They're less silly, but at the same time also less dramatic or intriguing. Is he bored? Jaded? Distracted? Misled? Suffering from popularity? Not that I could possibly recommend anything to be an improvement ... hmm.
Yeah, it, uh ... that's that.
Oh, I LOVE THIS:
'"Neiklot?"Sunny asked, which meant "Why are you telling us about this ring?"'
I haven't laughed that hard at a book in a really long time. At least a year.
Just ... as a general note ... I move that there be some sort of Interpol policy stating that no movies shall be made of a book or books in a contiguous chronological narrative series that is still being written by the author. Or if they are made, the author is not allowed to watch them. I can't help wondering if both the Series of Unfortunate Events and Harry Potter would have turned out differently if it were not for the intervention of Hollywood.
*Lorem Ipsum is printers' dummy text. More info here.
There is a screencap I really want to post but CURSES my sister has the DVD and I can't find it online. Sunday, perhaps. [EDIT: the DVD is missing! Nooooooo!]
.... and I'm still awake.
Was it just me, or ... was it ... a little anticlimactic? WHOA! WHOA! STOP! It was good. In ... its way. But ... Well, I don't know what I wanted out of it. Somehow the ending was ... almost ... too normal. Though to be honest I was half expecting the book to consist of 'They all died' followed by fifty filler pages of Lorem Ipsum.* Every possible ending I could imagine seemed within the realm of possibility, but he's pulled another one of his tricks and ONCE AGAIN managed to come up with the most unexpected outcome, if only by doing what would be expected of anyone else.
I dunno, it just seems to be out of the tone of the rest of the series. The last three books seem to have sort of gradually drifted into a different universe. Maybe it's just me. They're less satirical but not really more of anything else to make up for it. They're less silly, but at the same time also less dramatic or intriguing. Is he bored? Jaded? Distracted? Misled? Suffering from popularity? Not that I could possibly recommend anything to be an improvement ... hmm.
Yeah, it, uh ... that's that.
Oh, I LOVE THIS:
'"Neiklot?"Sunny asked, which meant "Why are you telling us about this ring?"'
I haven't laughed that hard at a book in a really long time. At least a year.
Just ... as a general note ... I move that there be some sort of Interpol policy stating that no movies shall be made of a book or books in a contiguous chronological narrative series that is still being written by the author. Or if they are made, the author is not allowed to watch them. I can't help wondering if both the Series of Unfortunate Events and Harry Potter would have turned out differently if it were not for the intervention of Hollywood.
*Lorem Ipsum is printers' dummy text. More info here.
There is a screencap I really want to post but CURSES my sister has the DVD and I can't find it online. Sunday, perhaps. [EDIT: the DVD is missing! Nooooooo!]
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Date: 2006-11-16 07:49 am (UTC)I'm only about halfway through Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince but so far I am hating it.
The fact that J.K. Rowling knows all of her books are going to be made into films is directly influencing how she is writing them. This pisses me off. Also, please keep straight the differences between the films and the books J. K. In Prisoner of Azkaban Hermione slaps Draco and pulls her wand on him. In the film she punches him. There is a line early on in Half Blood Prince that states: "Like in their third year when Hermione punched Draco."
What? WHAT?
All the little inconsistencies (sp?) bother me. Katie Bell has been on the Quidditch team since Harry got to Hogwarts. Unless she is one year above Harry in school this is not possible. If she is in the next book it will piss me off.
In the interviews on the Prisoner of Azkaban DVD, Rowling states that she wished she had thought of the shrunken head idea cause it was cute. Why not use it now and throw some mention of shrunken heads into Half Blood Prince? Oh wait-you did, stating that they are dark objects and someone had them confiscated on their way into Hogwarts. Sorry, I forgot. I'm not paying attention to your series. And neither is half of the living world.
The pensieve is a horrible excuse to use flashback in a movie. That's all I will say about that.
Ron, Hermione, fucking DO it already.
I was under the impression that Tom Riddle's Mother's name was something like Mary. Then-in Half Blood Prince we discover it is Merope.