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Post by Blues on Jul 23, 2007 13:43:35 GMT -5
Alright. Harry Potter 7.
I have finished the book, and it'd be nice to have a discussion.
We can either wait until everyone's done, or start now, and put a spoiler warning in the title of the thread so that those who haven't finished won't come here...
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Post by Little Miss Odd on Jul 23, 2007 15:23:53 GMT -5
Haven't finished, haven't started, haven't bought the book. Have a roommate who has though. Called me at 1am her time to tell me she had bought it, called me 8 hours later to say she'd woken up from a three hour nap after having finished it. And I allowed her to spoil me, because I really don't care and she apparently needed to talk to someone about it. And her opinion of the Epilogue is that authors shouldn't need to write fanfiction for their own work.
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Post by Blues on Jul 23, 2007 15:47:04 GMT -5
LOL. Yeah that's a good interpretation of the Epilogue. So I guess this means I can discuss? I shall put a spoiler warning in the title...
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Post by Little Miss Odd on Jul 23, 2007 16:08:54 GMT -5
Well if you want to. Like I said, I haven't read it, but I did give Berkeley full reign to babble about it to me, so I could maybe keep up with you.
On a mildly unrelated note, she agrees with my conclusion that Voldemort is actually Jesus.
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Post by bezzerkker on Jul 24, 2007 1:46:33 GMT -5
I read the book. I liked which main character J.K. Rowling killed. Personally, I thought the book was pretty darn good, but then again, I read it at warp speed. (Started around 1pm Saturday, finished by 4:30am that night, with about four hours of breaktime scattered through). The Epilogue keeps a good cap on the story, in my opinion. That way, even if J.K. Rowling decides to whore herself out by writing more add to the story, there are limits to what she can do.
I don't see how Voldermort is Jesus. Sure, he (kind of) died and came back to life, tries to convert those who oppose him and was sold out by one of his own disciples, but Jesus wasn't the ringleader of a criminal organization, nor was he a serial mass murderer. If any wizard is Jesus, Gandalf would be up for the vote, but Fizban should win. (If you don't know who Fizban is, you depress me.)
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Post by Monolith on Jul 24, 2007 3:14:19 GMT -5
I am proud to say I have made it all the way to the series end without reading a single book. I deserve a prize.
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Post by Blues on Jul 24, 2007 11:38:38 GMT -5
lolz. way to go, Nick.
FUCK! I really was torn when Fred died. SERIOUSLY. Obvi a Weasly had to die, but....couldn't have been Charlie or something? He doesn't do anything anyway...
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Post by bezzerkker on Jul 25, 2007 20:01:46 GMT -5
Naw, for authors, it is fun to kill off loved characters. And the twins had lost their interchangeability when George got his ear shot off.
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Post by Blues on Jul 25, 2007 22:04:52 GMT -5
yeah but she didn't have to KILL him after that!
blech. And I trusted Snape the whole time. for the record.
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Post by bezzerkker on Jul 27, 2007 5:57:12 GMT -5
Well, yeah. That one wasn't hard to follow. I figured he and Dumbledore had set it up from the outset, but I couldn't quite figure out why Dumbledore would want to have that kind of plan executed.
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Post by v_sukhanov on Jul 27, 2007 17:17:33 GMT -5
Finished 2 days ago... Greatest book ever written.
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Post by bezzerkker on Aug 4, 2007 17:37:21 GMT -5
I wouldn't say it is the greatest book ever written. Jim Butcher's Dresden Files novels I'd place a half notch above, same with Stephen Erickson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series. However, they are all different subgenres of fantasy, so it is difficult to make comprehensive comparisons.
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Post by Devastatingly Yours on Aug 5, 2007 1:12:17 GMT -5
I have mixed feelings about the book. I felt that the Deathly Hallows were kind of a crappy tacked on plot device, and that Harry's "now you see me, now you don't" act was a bit much. I was saddened by the reveal of Snape's childhood adoration of Lily Evans, and disappointed when he died, although it worked for me. Despite those things, I liked the book well enough to read it start to finish in somewhere between three and four hours on the second day it was out.
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