Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
on’t worry, I’m not going to spoil it!
Friday night, under threat of death, my staff got me out of the restaurant at ten after close. It helped considerably that we were dead slow. Between Harry Potter and several other events in town, there was no business.
I got to the local Barnes & Nobel about 11:30 and commenced to wait — got my book at 1am, and took it immediately home. Thereupon I proceeded to iron-man my way through it in eight hours. I took a quick nap and dragged myself off to an excruciatingly long day of work, exhausted from lack of sleep. I got home Saturday night, ate, and collapsed into bed shortly after that. So, I haven’t been near the computer in about two days.
The book was, at first read, excellent. How excellent? Well, let’s put it this way: I certainly didn’t intend to go on an eight-hour reading marathon of the damn thing. It was good enough to keep pulling me along, reading just one more chapter before I go to bed — just one more chapter — just one more chapter — until it was 9:30 in the morning and I was done. And tired.
I have just one bitch about the whole thing: No army of Inferi. I was really looking forward to an army of the undead marching down on Harry, Hermione, and Ron. Ah well. You can’t have everything, I guess.
Be that as it may, I was quite pleased. It was action packed, well-plotted, and tied up all the loose ends I could remember. Snape was handled very satisfactorily. Harry actually managed to show case all those brains he’s supposed to have. Hermione was brilliant. Ron was valiant. The deaths that happened were handled quite well. I was, over-all, extremely pleased with the book.
I’ll do a more in-depth review later, after everyone’s managed to finish reading it, and I’ve had a chance to read it again. I read quite fast, but my retention of detail is for shit when I do that, so I’ll have to read it again to make sure I caught everything. Also, I’ve got to get my butt to work.
But — great book. I’m very pleased with it — totally makes up for the sixth book being a big turd.
(Picture credit: Amazon.com)
July 22nd, 2007 at 2:25 pm
8 hours? :blink::
For some reason I always imagined you would read dramatically faster than that.
JavaElemental Reply:
July 22nd, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Well, it was 782 pages. I didn’t think I did too bad.
Dragon of Life Reply:
July 23rd, 2007 at 1:42 am
Yeah, but… you should read faster! It just doesn’t make sense! That’s, like, only 200wpm!
July 23rd, 2007 at 1:51 am
And now you must mail me your copy so I can read it.(followed by a little jedi hand waving).
Seriously mail it to me!!!!!!
Or come out to mom’s on tuesday and bring it with you!!!!!
July 23rd, 2007 at 1:52 am
I mean it mail it to me!!!!!!!
JavaElemental Reply:
July 23rd, 2007 at 1:01 pm
I’m afraid you’re going to have to wait your turn. People started lining up to borrow the book from me last week. Just kidding — but it is already lent out. As soon as my dishwasher is done with it, I’ll get it to you.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Who decides which books get press (Harry Potter) and which get censored? After all, censorship is becoming America’s favorite past-time. The US gov’t (and their corporate friends), already detain protesters, ban books like “America Deceived” from Amazon and Wikipedia, shut down Imus and fire 21-year tenured, BYU physics professor Steven Jones because he proved explosives, thermite in particular, took down the WTC buildings. Free Speech forever (especially for books).
Last link (before Google Books caves to pressure and drops the title):
America Deceived (Book)