I've Succumbed

[poliphilo]

I've decided to join the human race and read the Harry Potter books. If I get my skates on I could be up to speed by the time she releases the final instalment.

I'm halfway through Philosopher's Stone. It's very readable. The style and storytelling are sometimes clumsy- but you're swept along by the stream of invention. Clever things come along at the rate of about two a page. Even though I've seen the films, she's got me wanting to know what happens next.

I miss Alan Rickman. The written Snape is just a mean old man with a hooky nose; nothing sexy about him at all.

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[loganberrybunny.livejournal.com]

(Here via huskyteer.)

It looks as though this is the week for this to happen: I've just succumbed in the same manner. I agree with you that the ideas are better than the style, but it's a gripping enough plot that that isn't an enormous problem. One or two things grate, but nothing to throw one off course entirely.

I'm nearly at the end of book three, and am enjoying it greatly: it's considerably darker and more complex than the previous two. Actually, book two isn't all that different from book one, though I think it's a little bit better written.

Incidentally, in sort-of reply to another thread on your LJ about HP: The Entertainer chain of toy shops refused to stock any HP merchandise because its Christian owner thought it inappropriate. I don't know whether that's still the case, but I believe so.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

By Book #2 Rowling's style has become good enough. That's my feeling anyway. I'm no longer being stopped in my tracks by sentences I'm itching to rewrite.

I've just started Book #3...

Harry Potter inappropriate? I can't get over how silly some people are...