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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Potter Fatigue

 

It's Harry Potter's birthday and I'm done with him, the seven books and wizarding for now.  While kids on summer break from school might read the book in 9 hours (two sessions), as a working adult it took me a week of reading spurts to slog through 760 pages.  SPOILER ALERT:  While in general I loved the series and book 7,  I absolutely hated the epilogue.  Why ruin a perfect ending?  I won't actually mention who lives or dies in case you've read on anyway, but my comments will give too much away, so stop now if you haven't finished.  I can see a reason to tie up some loose ends "19 years later," but not the ones JK chose to address.  It was just like the terrible ending to the HBO series "6 Feet Under"  --  TOO much information.  Letting us use our own imaginations about the future lives of some of those characters would have been FAR preferable, IMHO. I've certainly determined I will never end any future movie or book I write that way. 

I truly am moving on now --  to Gore's book (below) and my own writing.  I'm not even going to see the "Phoenix" movie.  I'm so done with the Order, Hallows and Horcruxes.  Now, time travel?  Well, that's another matter  

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