Last one down
Jul. 31st, 2007 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonimpSee, the reason I don't read all that many books nowadays, is that once I've started a book, I'm not good for much else until I've finished it. Like, y'know, housework, or doing anything online.
I finished Deathly Hallows this evening. This one didn't leave me with the same unpleasant after taste that the last two did, and I didn't spend most of the book wanting to strangle Harry, like in the last two, which was a definite improvement, although I still maintain that the first three are the best of the series.
Rowling still has a way of grabbing you, pulling you in, tossing you around, and not letting you go until the end, which was true even of the two books I didn't care so much for. On the whole, I'd have to say I do admire her ability to plot and plan ahead, two things I've never been quite so good at.
The last chapter, though? The epilogue? I know where she came from when she wrote it, and I do understand why she wanted to, I think I would have wanted to myself, but really, it read like she'd written fanfic of her own work. It was sort of humdrum and lack-luster after the end of the actual story.
I finished Deathly Hallows this evening. This one didn't leave me with the same unpleasant after taste that the last two did, and I didn't spend most of the book wanting to strangle Harry, like in the last two, which was a definite improvement, although I still maintain that the first three are the best of the series.
Rowling still has a way of grabbing you, pulling you in, tossing you around, and not letting you go until the end, which was true even of the two books I didn't care so much for. On the whole, I'd have to say I do admire her ability to plot and plan ahead, two things I've never been quite so good at.
The last chapter, though? The epilogue? I know where she came from when she wrote it, and I do understand why she wanted to, I think I would have wanted to myself, but really, it read like she'd written fanfic of her own work. It was sort of humdrum and lack-luster after the end of the actual story.