Werf Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 I love the series and read "Half-Blood Prince" in two days. Got it on Sat. afternoon and had it done by Monday morning. Great read, good fantasy and without any hesitation of breaking readers' hearts. Now I've got to wait two or three years for the finale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Rat Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 I've read one and two, and I live with a young person who loves the whole series. I have Rawling to thank for her able assistance in my nefarious plan to turn above mentioned young person into an avid reader. As for me . . . well like a lot of genre writers, especially genre writers doing material for inexperienced readers, she has her strengths and her weaknesses. I think she has an excellent way of evoking the frustrations of being a child and playing those frustrations out in innocent ways. The original scenario is a great idea. Creating a setting that is both very different than everyday reality and also very close to everyday reality (witches living as an active underground in contremporary society) is a brilliant move. I think she's created a series which is a great introduction to the pleasures of reading, but, on the other hand I think Rawling is often pretty derivative and there is a real lack of depth to the books--I don't find the drama I remember in, say, LeGuin's Earthsea trilogy, or a completely absorbing world like Middle Earth. But these faults are in some ways functions of the strengths of the novels. --eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soul Stream Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 Some things in life I just don't GET. This is one of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Rat Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 Some things in life I just don't GET. This is one of them. ← You're just upset about your cellphone. --eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 Some things in life I just don't GET. This is one of them. ← You're just upset about your cellphone. --eric ← Soulstation1 lost his cell phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Rat Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 Some things in life I just don't GET. This is one of them. ← You're just upset about your cellphone. --eric ← Soulstation1 lost his cell phone. ← Any relation? --eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werf Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 I don't get cellphones. Like, a friend called me four times in a row yesterday, "H...cha...guh...Werf...ke... (vast gulf of silence)." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Rat Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 (edited) I don't get cellphones. Like, a friend called me four times in a row yesterday, "H...cha...guh...Werf...ke... (vast gulf of silence)." ← You're just upset because Klingons don't get any respect on this planet. --eric Edited July 25, 2005 by Dr. Rat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kh1958 Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 Yes, they are both Slytherins. Some things in life I just don't GET. This is one of them. ← You're just upset about your cellphone. --eric ← Soulstation1 lost his cell phone. ← Any relation? --eric ← Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe G Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 I don't get cellphones. Like, a friend called me four times in a row yesterday, "H...cha...guh...Werf...ke... (vast gulf of silence)." ← You're just upset because Klingons don't get any respect on this planet. --eric ← Or reception, apparently! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
couw Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 this volume read like some sort of in between book. Lots of stuff happening that just needed to be told without an actual story arc evolving. Too much going on and too little to make a coherent story. Realy good in the face of the overall tale but not so when singled out. This one left a bit of a rambled off impression. All the stuff that needed to be in place for the final work has been put in place. At least I hope that's the case. Many lost opportunities in this book, it could have been better with some additional sidelines that threaten to become mainlines. The previous books kept the reader on their toes with such stuff, resolving one story line after the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 (edited) I picked up #6 before a flight yesterday and finished it today. I enjoyed it a lot, though I wonder how she is going to tie up all the loose ends in "just" 700 pages. I was reading up on the response to this series by critics like Harold Bloom. Hilarious. Guy Edited December 27, 2006 by Guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 #6 is a disturbing book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 Sounds like I should try reading Vol. 6! I respect that she's ending the series. . . seems sensible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted December 28, 2006 Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 Sounds like I should try reading Vol. 6! I respect that she's ending the series. . . seems sensible. My daughter, who buys them for the kids and lends them to me tells me that only two more are planned. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 Predictions for book 7 anyone? 1. Dumbledore is NOT dead. Snape IS in on the plot to make it look like he's dead, but Dumbledore is not dead. It is a ruse to make Voldemort think he's out of the way. 2. Percy Weasley is a Death Eater. Pure-blood, disagrees vehemently with his parents, always an air of superiority. Been working inside the Ministry in order to feed info to the Dark Lord, who uses Percy's thirst for power and his pure-bloodline in order to bring him over to the dark side. I have no idea who WILL die, and I'm not even sure that Harry and/or Voldemort will die. But I'm pretty confident about those other two. As for this series, I haven't read each book as they came out; in fact, I'm still in the middle of book 6 (I cheated when it came out: I read the last three chapters to see who would die.), and even though I know how the book ends, I still can't stop listening to it (Book-on-CD doncha know; that's how I've read the bulk of this series. Listen to the CD in the car, pick up the book when I get home!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 Judging by the cover of the book, I'm predicting that there will be a THIRD force in the book, and that Voldemort and Harry will have to team up to destroy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 Hey, is this book coming out soon? Where can you see the cover? MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 I haven't seen the cover before googling it just now, but I don't understand what Sal means. However, maybe Harry and Voldemort will duke it out in the Colosseum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 1. Dumbledore is NOT dead. Snape IS in on the plot to make it look like he's dead, but Dumbledore is not dead. It is a ruse to make Voldemort think he's out of the way. I wouldn't bet the farm on this, but it seems pretty plausible. Snape's wholehearted defection in book 6 is a little strange; if Rowling really wanted to make him an agent of Voldemort's, she would have made the character much more conflicted. Guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 1. Dumbledore is NOT dead. Snape IS in on the plot to make it look like he's dead, but Dumbledore is not dead. It is a ruse to make Voldemort think he's out of the way. I wouldn't bet the farm on this, but it seems pretty plausible. Snape's wholehearted defection in book 6 is a little strange; if Rowling really wanted to make him an agent of Voldemort's, she would have made the character much more conflicted. Guy Exactly! I think Snape's defection is a put-on, the work of someone who has simultanesouly cultivated the trust of both Dumbledore AND Voldemort. Now that I think of it, Snape, to follow Sal's thinking, could very well be that third force. Snape is only in it for himself! Hmmmmmm.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted June 14, 2007 Report Share Posted June 14, 2007 I think it's set up, almost clearly, that Snape will in the end aid Harry in killing Voldemort in a final confrontation. Snape had to kill Dumbledore which will allow him to be closer to Voldemort. And Dumbledore is dead, IMHO, except of course he is in the paintings in the master's office. Rowling has clearly set up the loss of every potential father figure for Harry, leaving Harry to do most of the hard work in #7 himself (or at least without the help of father figures with superior powers - Sirius, Dumbledore). I just don't knwo from whom to prebuy the book. Normally I would do Amazon, but when I think of all teh boxes that Amazon will use to ship out copies... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal Posted June 15, 2007 Report Share Posted June 15, 2007 I'm sorry, but I'm having bad luck finding the image I'm trying to find... The cover posted above is only the front flap. When its folded out, it shows not only Harry looking up, but Voldermart is standing next to him and looking up as well, and they both seem to be gesturing to some unknown source. If I can find an image, I'll post it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal Posted June 15, 2007 Report Share Posted June 15, 2007 Here's the full image. Sorry its so small. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalo Posted June 15, 2007 Report Share Posted June 15, 2007 Don't give a hoot aboot Hairy Pooter... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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