Deatly Haloows
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swatkatI was bored. So I entertained myself reading HP reviews at amazon.com.
* My number one thing was the cheesy stuff. 1.The way they kept barely escaping. 2.ginny offering her body 3.Ron's "im still a sidekick" personality 4. Mrs. Weasly cursing and then killing a strong witch 5. Harry getting out of killing voldemort(or killing anyone)
* Rowling had the opportunity to make the Harry Potter series a work of serious fiction with this last book. Sadly, she opted to turn the Harry Potter series into nothing more than a child's fairytale.
* Now, the author has made excessive amounts of money writing about Harry and friends. In every book she beats the poor kid into the ground. The final book is an overkill of sadism. The joy taken in tearing apart every one and every thing young Harry believes in is most annoying. The author gives Harry the ability to restore the dead to life yet, he doesn't do this when those who defended him lie dead on the floor of Hogwarts. She then lets Harry fake death to the horror of
all his friends. She takes forever to bring joy and happiness to some of the characters and then snatches it away. This book is a sad conclusion to a series that could have been great.
* If someone like Prof. McGonagal, Hagrid, Neville, Ginny, Hermione or Ron had died protecting Harry from Voldemort a sense of honor or redoubling of his efforts to avenge them would have happened and given me a more satisfying ending. (Swatkat: STFU)
* Hermione--stop crying. Ron is a teenage boy who has a history of cowardice and whining. Also, you chose to go and to trust Harry--so why don't you stop telling him he is wrong about everything...
* ... I should tell you that I know some satanic, malign cutthroats who contend they once overheard Joanne Rowling say, "I want to reap a harvest of death when you least expect it". To plunge right into it, if you ever ask Joanne to do something, you can bet that your request will get lost in the shuffle, unaddressed, ignored, and rebuffed. The primary point of disagreement between myself and Joanne is whether or not I like to speak of her as "sleazy". That's a reasonable term to use, I maintain, but let's now try to understand it a little better. For starters, either Joanne has no real conception of the sweep of history, or she is merely intent on winning some debating pin by trying to pierce a hole in my logic with "facts" that are taken out of context. I'm not very conversant with her background. To be quite frank, I don't care to be. I already know enough to state with confidence that Joanne teaches workshops on mysticism. Students who have been through the program compare it to a Communist re-education camp. Let me give you an important hint: When trying to understand what she is up to, look at what she is doing and what she has done. Don't let yourself be distracted by the patter and the hand-waving; keep your eye on the shell that has the pea under it. And focus your mind on the fact that her desire to force us to do things or take stands against our will is the chief sign that she's a scummy pseudo-intellectual. (The second sign is that Joanne feels obliged to legitimize the fear and hatred of the privileged for the oppressed.)
Given the intransigent political rhetoric of our times, Joanne is a faithful student of Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese strategist who advocated demoralizing one's enemy as the highest art of warfare. To top that off, all of the bad things that are currently going on are a symptom of Joanne's illogical intimations. They are not a cause; they are an effect. Do you ever get the feeling that her whitewash of the issue offers no real analysis of the situation that resulted in her grungy criticisms in the first place? Well, you should, because I am tired of hearing or reading that she can walk on water. You know that that is simply not true. Now that you've heard what I've had to say, I want you to think about it. And I want you to join me and criticize the obvious incongruities presented by Joanne Rowling and her pals. (Swatkat: I had to quote this whole, because I would appreciate if someone explained this to me)
* To waste a terrific character like Snape in such a unreproducible way is just stupid. His death happens so casually that you could come to the conclusion that he isn't important at all. Reminds me of the first new Star Wars movie where Lucas introduced Darth Maul and sacrifized him in the same episode.
* It seemed horrible, abrupt and not as compleat as it could have been. Yes it was full of death, life, love and compleation, but it seemed hallow.
* Dumbledore seems very out of character as far as motivations etc goes.
* The Deatly Haloows themselves could have been more important and feel tacked on.
* How on earth this totally abysmal series of books has garnered any form of critical acclaim is beyond me. At least now the world is at rest because we won't have to suffer the ridiculous sight of adults lining up at midnight waiting to purchase a childs book.
* It amazes me how British adults can get so passionately hysterical about the publication of the latest Harry Potter book.
* No wonder the world is so screwed up when most people are into easily-digestable escapist moronic rubbish like Big Brother and Harry Potter.
Go on, give in to the herd mentality: buy yourself the latest pottter book and shed a tear for the demise of J. K. Rowling's anaemic child-hero.
a giant chunk of the book was ron, hermione, and harry going camping in some random forest.
* POSSIBLY THE MOST SPECTACULAR FINALE IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE! SHAKESPEARE WOULD BE PROUD!
* The appearance of uber-Ginny in the last book was completely forgotten in this book (which, for me, was good because she's too much of a Mary-Sue character for me anyhow). She acted like a little tramp in this book.
* The character assassination of Hermione continues with this book. She is a shadow of what she once was.
* Harry has turned into a hormonally charged useless dutz that only defeats Voldemort out of sheer dumb luck...in fact, he doesn't even really do anything. Ron, apparently has decided that he wants to control witches with the help of a book and shares his knowledge with Harry. Dumbledore isn't the pilar of the earth we are led to believe for this entire series.
But everybody hates the epilogue.
* My number one thing was the cheesy stuff. 1.The way they kept barely escaping. 2.ginny offering her body 3.Ron's "im still a sidekick" personality 4. Mrs. Weasly cursing and then killing a strong witch 5. Harry getting out of killing voldemort(or killing anyone)
* Rowling had the opportunity to make the Harry Potter series a work of serious fiction with this last book. Sadly, she opted to turn the Harry Potter series into nothing more than a child's fairytale.
* Now, the author has made excessive amounts of money writing about Harry and friends. In every book she beats the poor kid into the ground. The final book is an overkill of sadism. The joy taken in tearing apart every one and every thing young Harry believes in is most annoying. The author gives Harry the ability to restore the dead to life yet, he doesn't do this when those who defended him lie dead on the floor of Hogwarts. She then lets Harry fake death to the horror of
all his friends. She takes forever to bring joy and happiness to some of the characters and then snatches it away. This book is a sad conclusion to a series that could have been great.
* If someone like Prof. McGonagal, Hagrid, Neville, Ginny, Hermione or Ron had died protecting Harry from Voldemort a sense of honor or redoubling of his efforts to avenge them would have happened and given me a more satisfying ending. (Swatkat: STFU)
* Hermione--stop crying. Ron is a teenage boy who has a history of cowardice and whining. Also, you chose to go and to trust Harry--so why don't you stop telling him he is wrong about everything...
* ... I should tell you that I know some satanic, malign cutthroats who contend they once overheard Joanne Rowling say, "I want to reap a harvest of death when you least expect it". To plunge right into it, if you ever ask Joanne to do something, you can bet that your request will get lost in the shuffle, unaddressed, ignored, and rebuffed. The primary point of disagreement between myself and Joanne is whether or not I like to speak of her as "sleazy". That's a reasonable term to use, I maintain, but let's now try to understand it a little better. For starters, either Joanne has no real conception of the sweep of history, or she is merely intent on winning some debating pin by trying to pierce a hole in my logic with "facts" that are taken out of context. I'm not very conversant with her background. To be quite frank, I don't care to be. I already know enough to state with confidence that Joanne teaches workshops on mysticism. Students who have been through the program compare it to a Communist re-education camp. Let me give you an important hint: When trying to understand what she is up to, look at what she is doing and what she has done. Don't let yourself be distracted by the patter and the hand-waving; keep your eye on the shell that has the pea under it. And focus your mind on the fact that her desire to force us to do things or take stands against our will is the chief sign that she's a scummy pseudo-intellectual. (The second sign is that Joanne feels obliged to legitimize the fear and hatred of the privileged for the oppressed.)
Given the intransigent political rhetoric of our times, Joanne is a faithful student of Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese strategist who advocated demoralizing one's enemy as the highest art of warfare. To top that off, all of the bad things that are currently going on are a symptom of Joanne's illogical intimations. They are not a cause; they are an effect. Do you ever get the feeling that her whitewash of the issue offers no real analysis of the situation that resulted in her grungy criticisms in the first place? Well, you should, because I am tired of hearing or reading that she can walk on water. You know that that is simply not true. Now that you've heard what I've had to say, I want you to think about it. And I want you to join me and criticize the obvious incongruities presented by Joanne Rowling and her pals. (Swatkat: I had to quote this whole, because I would appreciate if someone explained this to me)
* To waste a terrific character like Snape in such a unreproducible way is just stupid. His death happens so casually that you could come to the conclusion that he isn't important at all. Reminds me of the first new Star Wars movie where Lucas introduced Darth Maul and sacrifized him in the same episode.
* It seemed horrible, abrupt and not as compleat as it could have been. Yes it was full of death, life, love and compleation, but it seemed hallow.
* Dumbledore seems very out of character as far as motivations etc goes.
* The Deatly Haloows themselves could have been more important and feel tacked on.
* How on earth this totally abysmal series of books has garnered any form of critical acclaim is beyond me. At least now the world is at rest because we won't have to suffer the ridiculous sight of adults lining up at midnight waiting to purchase a childs book.
* It amazes me how British adults can get so passionately hysterical about the publication of the latest Harry Potter book.
* No wonder the world is so screwed up when most people are into easily-digestable escapist moronic rubbish like Big Brother and Harry Potter.
Go on, give in to the herd mentality: buy yourself the latest pottter book and shed a tear for the demise of J. K. Rowling's anaemic child-hero.
a giant chunk of the book was ron, hermione, and harry going camping in some random forest.
* POSSIBLY THE MOST SPECTACULAR FINALE IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE! SHAKESPEARE WOULD BE PROUD!
* The appearance of uber-Ginny in the last book was completely forgotten in this book (which, for me, was good because she's too much of a Mary-Sue character for me anyhow). She acted like a little tramp in this book.
* The character assassination of Hermione continues with this book. She is a shadow of what she once was.
* Harry has turned into a hormonally charged useless dutz that only defeats Voldemort out of sheer dumb luck...in fact, he doesn't even really do anything. Ron, apparently has decided that he wants to control witches with the help of a book and shares his knowledge with Harry. Dumbledore isn't the pilar of the earth we are led to believe for this entire series.
But everybody hates the epilogue.
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Date: 2007-07-25 10:41 am (UTC)I absolutely despise the "Ron is a coward" argument, especially as it is usually followed by "and that is why Hermione belongs with Harry." Ron certainly has his low points, but so does Hermione. And Harry.
POSSIBLY THE MOST SPECTACULAR FINALE IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE!
It was very good, but not the best in the universe. And Shakespeare wrote plays.
a giant chunk of the book was ron, hermione, and harry going camping in some random forest.
Um... no.
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Date: 2007-07-25 12:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-25 10:58 am (UTC)No problem. The person who wrote that is out of his or her mind.
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Date: 2007-07-25 12:47 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-07-25 04:39 pm (UTC)The Deatly Haloows
Sounds like a greeting "Halooooo!"
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Date: 2007-07-26 05:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-25 07:09 pm (UTC)all his friends. She takes forever to bring joy and happiness to some of the characters and then snatches it away. This book is a sad conclusion to a series that could have been great.
Miss the point much?
ANd as for that long pseudo-intellectual twaffle...It made no sense as written.
CHARACTER ASSASSINATION of Herminone??? WTF?
Of course DUmbledore isn't the pillar of the earth--learning about his humanity is part of the whole maturation process. These books are THROUGH HARRY'S PERCEPTION.
I don't hate the epilogue. Cheesy though it be, I like it.
What about adults in other countries?
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Date: 2007-07-26 05:49 am (UTC)It's actually pretty scary, if you consider how coherent that clearly batshit person is. Really scary.
What about adults in other countries?
Hee. To be fair, it was from amazon.co.uk, so that person might be excused for focusing on UK alone. Still ridiculous, though. *g*
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Date: 2007-07-25 07:20 pm (UTC)To be fair, that part may have SEEMED like a giant chunk of the book because it was so interminably long and tedious and oh god if I never read about another motherfucking tent in my life I will be so, so happy.
Also: that review that keeps calling her Joanne. WHAT? When did mental asylums get internet access?
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Date: 2007-07-26 05:47 am (UTC)And yeah. So very scary, that person.
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Date: 2007-07-26 01:02 am (UTC)I almost want to be wankily defensive against that statement, in the name of irony. ;)
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Date: 2007-07-26 05:47 am (UTC)