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Deleted user 23 November 2005 19:25:55

I reread it recently and it wasn't as bad as I first thought. I quite enjoyed it actually. Sure it was all over the shop and really needed editing down, just saying it's not that bad.

ProfessorLesser 23 Nov 2005 19:30:15 19,693 posts
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No, tengu, did you?

Let's face it: it was shit. If you notice things like what cubby points out in a book (all over the place, noticeably needs editing), then there's something really wrong with it.

Then there's the boring story and poor characterisation to deal with, and the fact that the whole thing reeks of apathy...

Nah, couldn't be having with it. The 6th book is also guilty, in the sense that NOTHING HAPPENS until the very end, but at least that was a relatively good read.

ProfessorLesser 23 Nov 2005 19:38:19 19,693 posts
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Hehe, that's true. I don't read very many 'so-so' books. If I'm not enjoying it (and I've no other reason to finish it - say, to understand the next in the series), I'll just stop reading it. It doesn't hold my attention, so why bother?

First 'real' book I really read would be the Hobbit, followed swiftly by LOTR. Favourite books of all time, and really don't understand the 'holier-than-thou' attitude of the literature knobs claiming Tolkein didn't know what he was doing. So what if you can't derive the fucking metaphors from it? Jesus. Go read Lord of the Flies.

/back OT

Edited by ProfessorLesser at 19:38:39 23-11-2005

Deleted user 23 November 2005 19:49:03

Nah it was good, despite the technical inadequacies. Re-reading it recently made me aware that it was much better than my memory recalled.

fergal_oc 23 Nov 2005 20:16:11 2,764 posts
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Well I've read the first 90 odd pages and it seemed pretty good.

The opening scenes seemed promising, but if it goes down hill from then on maybe this will be the first harry potter film that's better than the book?

ProfessorLesser 23 Nov 2005 20:32:26 19,693 posts
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GoF>PoA>HBP

EddieBear 23 Nov 2005 20:39:25 560 posts
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My biggest problem with OotP was that it just felt like 'filler' material. She was clearly tying up the loose ends from PoA and GoF and beginning to plant seeds for HBP and the seventh book. There was just a hell of a lot of not much happening too which didn't help.

The book also somehow managed to not be that dark, and just come across as really dreary and depressing. Dunno why.

ProfessorLesser 23 Nov 2005 20:40:54 19,693 posts
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And a really poor romantic plot.

Deleted user 23 November 2005 20:46:19

Oh fuck off you bummers, it was good you hear?

EddieBear 23 Nov 2005 20:49:34 560 posts
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WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD

God yes, you could tell she'd had the idea of Harry and Cho in the 3rd book and then realised that it was going nowhere by OotP and finished the whole thing off in a lame, lame fashion.

Not sure if JK had intended this but Cho always came across as a bit of a prat and never seemed like the type of girl that Harry would go for. Its all sorted out now though!

SPOILERS END

Deleted user 23 November 2005 20:55:28

He's secretly wanted hermione from the start. And he'll get her, oh yes, he'll get her. But I get emma watson you hear?

fergal_oc 23 Nov 2005 21:04:38 2,764 posts
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Do you think we'll see Ron and Harry spit-roasting Hermione in the 7th then?

Deleted user 23 November 2005 21:05:40

Well if not in the book at least in the film hopefully.

fergal_oc 23 Nov 2005 21:07:29 2,764 posts
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Wouldn't you just be sitting in the cinema with a raincoat on being all jealous though Cubby?

Deleted user 23 November 2005 21:08:46

Nah, she's an actor, it's her job, I'll understand.

fergal_oc 23 Nov 2005 21:11:09 2,764 posts
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Just hope the director doesn't cut the scene short like dickhead did in GoF.

Deleted user 23 November 2005 21:12:34

There was a spit-roast scene in GoF?

fergal_oc 23 Nov 2005 21:18:09 2,764 posts
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lol i wish...maybe in the extended DVD?

Spitroast with Cho, Hermione & Fleur hmmmm

ProfessorLesser 23 Nov 2005 21:19:55 19,693 posts
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Fleur isn't half the girl Hermione is.

Which is completely wrong for everything other than the ball scene, where Hermione 'becomes a woman'.

Not enough for my liking :-/

ilmaestro 23 Nov 2005 23:35:51 32,932 posts
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ProfessorLesser wrote:
GoF>PoA>HBP

I probably agree with that order, but I liked OotP enough that I read it in one sitting, and have reread it as many times as the others by now.