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12 comments:
You could have called me...would could have read bits of it to each other! Actually, that might have been a little creepy....
luke! are you finished too?
mila are you finished too? oh no, sorry, my mistake, you are still in the 200s.
I've finished too! I went to bed at 3:00 AM and read the rest of the book earlier today. I think I stayed up even later for the last one.
Yes! I had to stop reading at 6:30 AM, managed to get 5 hours of Hogwarts-disturbed sleep, and finished at 1:30 this afternoon.
I think they should release movies 6 and 7 together as an 4 hour LOTR-style epic.
Simon, are you satisfied by the conclusion?
I was most pleased with the ending, though I daren't say more lest mila stumble across this page. thoughts, you two?
no spoilers! come on!!! some of us are still reading! and i'm not slow. i just have priorities such as sleep, food and breaks.
I read as I ate lunch :)
Simon, I too was pleased by the ending. I thought that JK managed to simultaneously validate great swathes of speculation about the climax of the book AND trump the speculation so that there was no sense of staleness or letdown.
How? Through very impressive plot management, impressive largely because many of the threads had been lying inactive (but not dormant) for three or four books. It helps that many of JK's themes (self-discovery of the bildunsgroman sort, understanding how the events of the past shape those of the present, etc) lend themselves nicely to the kind of serial novel she's written. Form and content reinforce each other harmoniously, so that when we as readers finally have (most of) the answers, we have them simultaneously with Harry - it makes the sense of his accomplishment (and ours, for sticking with it) all the more powerful.
All this being said, I am clearly a big HP nerd. Maybe I should post to Mugglenet.com, like Stark 2.0.
Julian, thoughts?
Reading as a competitive sport!!!
And they won't let them release 2 movies at once. The Wachowski brothers tried it with Matrix 2 and 3 and got shot down bigtime.
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