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My car broke down. The engine won't start. I had to call AAA to get it jump started, and I'm lucky like a very lucky person that my inestimably amazing roommate has a car and was willing to follow me to the Ford dealer and drive me back. And is willing to take me to get my damned buggering bloody mother****ing car once it's fixed.
(Never tell my car I called it names. Anthropomorphizing much? You should see what it does when I don't take care of it.)
On the Harry Potter front (whoo, spamming the friends list . . . all nine of you, one, perhaps two, who actually care) . . . .
I remain unmoved, in terms of the actual book and the presentation. You have to remember, however, that I'm the girl that read this book by Nina Kiriki Hoffman or something, which I thought was the most interestingly told teenage type book I'd ever seen. Another, literarily minded friend of mine read it on my say so, and said it was the most badly written book she'd ever read. She tends to like even stuff that's kind of on the sketchy side (usually because she likes a particular plot line, or a particular character, she's never spared the crap writing).
Anyway, what I told her about that book sort of holds true for this Harry Potter, although in a different way. It's a great book if you ignore the words. The characters in OoTP are much stronger, they feel more firmly grounded, like I could meet someone like that someday.
I guess my biggest issue is the tone of the book. It's so dramatically different from even GoF . . . and there isn't much transition . . . . it's just BANG here's a new style and a new way of handling the plot and so what if you feel like you've been left hanging, because the two parts don't mesh. I feel like the style change between books 1 and 2, 2 and 3, 3 and 4, was a much more well-adjusted change. It felt organic, if i'm not being too pretentious.
Also, it seemed to me that JK Rowling left out the transitional book--the book that properly belongs between books 4 and 5, that deals with how everyone ended up where they are. Something that explains why, despite much effort to the contrary on the author's part (or so it seemed to me), it felt like so much of the focus was not on school. It was weird. The previous four books were so intensely focused on the school aspect, and here it just seemed to fall by the wayside, almost completely. Plus, I think I felt that a lot of the 'onscreen' action, esp. that involving the new characters, should maybe have been offscreen, and we'd hear about it second-hand, like Harry probably should have.
Anyway, that's been bugging me since I read the book on Saturday night. And now that's off my chest, I'm gonna go read some fanfic (prolly Buffy/Spike) because I miss my shows dammit.
(Never tell my car I called it names. Anthropomorphizing much? You should see what it does when I don't take care of it.)
On the Harry Potter front (whoo, spamming the friends list . . . all nine of you, one, perhaps two, who actually care) . . . .
I remain unmoved, in terms of the actual book and the presentation. You have to remember, however, that I'm the girl that read this book by Nina Kiriki Hoffman or something, which I thought was the most interestingly told teenage type book I'd ever seen. Another, literarily minded friend of mine read it on my say so, and said it was the most badly written book she'd ever read. She tends to like even stuff that's kind of on the sketchy side (usually because she likes a particular plot line, or a particular character, she's never spared the crap writing).
Anyway, what I told her about that book sort of holds true for this Harry Potter, although in a different way. It's a great book if you ignore the words. The characters in OoTP are much stronger, they feel more firmly grounded, like I could meet someone like that someday.
I guess my biggest issue is the tone of the book. It's so dramatically different from even GoF . . . and there isn't much transition . . . . it's just BANG here's a new style and a new way of handling the plot and so what if you feel like you've been left hanging, because the two parts don't mesh. I feel like the style change between books 1 and 2, 2 and 3, 3 and 4, was a much more well-adjusted change. It felt organic, if i'm not being too pretentious.
Also, it seemed to me that JK Rowling left out the transitional book--the book that properly belongs between books 4 and 5, that deals with how everyone ended up where they are. Something that explains why, despite much effort to the contrary on the author's part (or so it seemed to me), it felt like so much of the focus was not on school. It was weird. The previous four books were so intensely focused on the school aspect, and here it just seemed to fall by the wayside, almost completely. Plus, I think I felt that a lot of the 'onscreen' action, esp. that involving the new characters, should maybe have been offscreen, and we'd hear about it second-hand, like Harry probably should have.
Anyway, that's been bugging me since I read the book on Saturday night. And now that's off my chest, I'm gonna go read some fanfic (prolly Buffy/Spike) because I miss my shows dammit.