Well, it's here! After approximately 8 hours of reading, Kate has finished. This means it's my turn, and I'm currently about 125 pages in. Exciting! Is anyone else out there reading it too? No spoilers, please.Edit 8/1/07 - I finished! I agree with the general consensus that #7 was a great finale to the series, although, like I found with all the books, the 2nd half is way more exciting than the 1st half. Well done, JKR.
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There's a new Harry Potter book? I hadn't heard.
Jeff and I bought two copies, so one of us wouldn't have to wait. Of course, he still finished well ahead of me. I just finished yesterday.
Hey Tom and Kate,
Just came across your blog. Count me among your new readers. Hope y'all are doing well. I am one of the oddballs who has yet to read a single HP book, though all those around me, including Meg, are consumed with Book 7. This didn't stop me from wagering a high stakes bet with Meg's 11 y.o. brother, Shane, who is an avid reader of HP, about whether Snape is good or bad. He, informed, said bad. I, uninformed, said good. At stake: ice cream from the best ice cream shop in St. Louis.
We're excited about our upcoming move to Boston and are hoping we'll get to visit your folks before too long. We just got a very sweet picture of Claire from Wendy. Can't wait to meet her.
Love,
Jasmine
I am not reading HP this time around. However, this week Doug and I both raced through "A thousand splendid suns" by the author of "The Kite Runner," Khaled Hosseini. This one is disturbing, but worth it. Put it on your list. There are over 500 people waiting for it at the libraries on the Cape. Another current high demand novel is "Water for Elephants" which is also rough, but good. Need more recommendations?
Judy
So I hypocritically snagged this book from a friend who had read it Saturday night.
Entertaining... I don't think the entire series was pre-plotted, but this last book's interesting in the way things come together.
I liked learning about Snape and Dumbledore. Yay good. Boooooo evil.
i decided that after 10 years of ignoring the harry potter phenomenon on principle, i can no longer miss out. I got books 1-3 yesterday and am almost finished with book 1. (it quickly distracted me from my other book.) very addictive, aren't they?
Jas - Glad you are reading our blog! We read yours, and are quite the amateurs by comparison. Your entries are always very thought provoking and insightful. As for Snape, we didn't have a bet, but (with both of us informed) Kate said bad, and I said good.
Steve - I think a fair amount was pre-plotted, but there were some parts of the plot that did seem like they were contorted around a little bit to fit within the already established history of the books and the story. Regardless, it worked very well, I thought.
Julia - It's OK, some people are just late catching onto the cool fads... :) They are very addictive, I agree. Especially books 5-7, where the ongoing storyline is more important than in the first few, where they seem to stand alone better. Hope you enjoy them without spoilers!
This book contained both my favorite second-half and least-favorite first-half of the whole series. This first-half wasn't just slow, it was boring. But the second-half more than made up for it.
What is it (besides having child protagonists) that makes this series remind me so much of Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" and "Ender's Shadow"? Things just fit together well in both, I guess.
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