Holy crap that was fast, LOLcoffeecat77July 22 2007, 00:27:53 UTC
"It has the same problem as the last one did, that nagging feeling that you've read this before, only it was fanfic the first time and the fic author did it better."
Isn't that usually the way it goes? Anyhow - I secured a bootlegged PDF of the novel and I'm going to read it in just a bit (it'll actually be the first HP book I've read - seen all the movies tho)
Re: Holy crap that was fast, LOLjaneway216July 22 2007, 01:20:56 UTC
I generally read pretty fast, always have, ever since I was a kid. And I admit that this one was a bit of a speed-read since I was desperate to know what happens.
Isn't that usually the way it goes?
Yeah -- that's one of the perils of fandom. That many minds working on figuring out where the series was supposed to go, inevitably someone was going to get it. right, and of course ideas are fresher the first time. Plus, frankly, there are people out there writing fanfic who are better writers than Jo. Sorry, Jo. It's the truth.
and yes, I cackled gleefully seeing Harmony shippers take a sword to the gut
That was one of my favorite parts myself. :)
I liked the idea of the epilogue -- let people know that The Trio + Ginny survived the inevitable post-war fallout and managed to get their acts together enough to respectively get hitched. However, I would much rather have preferred, say, an epistolary epilogue, in which one secondary character writes to another (Fleur to Viktor, or something) and includes enough info about the primary characters to satisfy us (including, for the love of Pete, their professions, not just their family lives).
I would much rather have preferred, say, an epistolary epilogue, in which one secondary character writes to another (Fleur to Viktor, or something) and includes enough info about the primary characters to satisfy us (including, for the love of Pete, their professions, not just their family lives).
That seems to be what everyone is complaining about (including me, in a friend's reactionpost.) I get that the series is, ultimately, aimed at children and not 24-year-old women, and so we get the conventional "two kids and a white picket fence" happy ending because it reassures the kids. And kids tend to be more interested in the adventures of other kids, not a bunch of thirty-something growed-ups, so we focus on the adorable moppets. At the same time, I've invested eight years (criminy, that long already?) in Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. And we learn essentially nothing about what happens to them beyond age 17. I guess that's what fanfic is for. :-\
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Isn't that usually the way it goes?
Anyhow - I secured a bootlegged PDF of the novel and I'm going to read it in just a bit (it'll actually be the first HP book I've read - seen all the movies tho)
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Isn't that usually the way it goes?
Yeah -- that's one of the perils of fandom. That many minds working on figuring out where the series was supposed to go, inevitably someone was going to get it. right, and of course ideas are fresher the first time. Plus, frankly, there are people out there writing fanfic who are better writers than Jo. Sorry, Jo. It's the truth.
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That was one of my favorite parts myself. :)
I liked the idea of the epilogue -- let people know that The Trio + Ginny survived the inevitable post-war fallout and managed to get their acts together enough to respectively get hitched. However, I would much rather have preferred, say, an epistolary epilogue, in which one secondary character writes to another (Fleur to Viktor, or something) and includes enough info about the primary characters to satisfy us (including, for the love of Pete, their professions, not just their family lives).
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That seems to be what everyone is complaining about (including me, in a friend's reactionpost.) I get that the series is, ultimately, aimed at children and not 24-year-old women, and so we get the conventional "two kids and a white picket fence" happy ending because it reassures the kids. And kids tend to be more interested in the adventures of other kids, not a bunch of thirty-something growed-ups, so we focus on the adorable moppets. At the same time, I've invested eight years (criminy, that long already?) in Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. And we learn essentially nothing about what happens to them beyond age 17. I guess that's what fanfic is for. :-\
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