Ah...but tolkien created a nasty little barrier for popularity...it is very wordy. The books are especialy hard to read if you are dislexic, as normaly I can forget to read words here and there and still get the sentence...in the LOR, I get stuck reading the same sentence four or five times occasionaly -_-...I would imagine it would be worse for a kid. I read the first earth sea back in middle school, good book...but it had a diffrent appeal. The harry potter books (at least when I was younger) made you wish the story was true and that you were there in that school, you were learning magic, ect, ect. While the other books are undoubtedly better written, the story doesn't connect as well at a personal level.Leumas wrote:Okay I am sorry, the reason I have finished the book is that everyone else in my family are MAJOR harry Potter fans and I need to read it or they go balistic. I do have a 30 hour a week part time jobDarkAuron wrote:Leumas, not everyone has nothing to do except the book. As for me, I've been juggling with lots of different things in the past week, some which I've finished, so I havn't had a lot of time for the book. I'm still not done with it, but I'm about 2/3rd done.
When you finish reading the book, more importantly when I can get the book back from my father's work, I will be able to show you a couple of the issues. A basic one is how long the "good luck potion" should last. At the beggining it is only to last 12 hours, in the last few chapters they say more than that.
As for the character... Yeah I can still believe in a Little consistancy. First Hermione(spelling?). Since when does she care about doing ONLY Ministry of Magic approved things. She made the poly juice potion, she broke unnumberable rules, she destroyed and fought with the ministry of magic. She endured their intrusion in the 5th year. So why was she so uptight about ministry spells. If she was worried about what the spells would do than she should say that, and stick with that, not talk about the ministry.
Ron, well ron and harry both are hit with the same blast as being written by a girl who never understood boys. With Ron's first girlfriend he is immeadiately kissing her "BIG TIME". Unless England is Massively different they don't even do that in New Orleans (My college is on St. Charles).
Harry, well to be honest a lot of change can be allowed, but she was just bad at it. Her description of Envy or jelosy or whatever "the monster in his stummache(spelling?)" was bad. I KNOW I am not alone when I thought she had it very wrong for guys. Everyone is different, yes, but that was a little too much.
Malfoy was my favorite character change. I thought that if she did that with every one (method not actually change) her skills would have sky rochetted.
And Snape, well, I am serriously pissed with what she did with Snape. He was my third favorite teacher and they didn't even do DADA classes(not like the last years).
The rest of the issues were with how she ended the book and you need to finish so that they make since so I won't spoil or taint your finishing.
I guess that I am not a die-hard HP fan. Her books are not bad, but I donot believe they should/will be remembered now or in the future as the Greatest books to ever grace our presense in the 21 century. Give me Earthsea, Dune, C.S. Lewis, or Tolkien (every so often), over her.
--Edit: I don't know a single person (male of course) that wouldn't drop a girl if they weren't interested...And my experiences point to people not kissing for very long stretch of time...they just progress to less and less 'innocent' things. She doesn't seem to understand the male species very well...maybe why she is divorced
But it does have a lot of new stuff in it, lots of magic, and lots of adventuring in it, mostly the triwizard tournament but.. still, I do like the 4th one the most.
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) did not destroy the horcrux than Harry has to destroy 5 more including Voldemort (what ever happened to the Nevil side of the prophcy?). I think she has dug herself into a pit. If she collapses to the pressure of releasing the next book like this one, I am afraid of a huge disappointment. 
