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tamara_russoSo I'm digesting the fact that in 162 days a 7-year-wait is going to end with a huge bang.
I've refused to read HP when it first came out. As a rule, I dislike best-sellers, due to the fact I don't generally have the same taste in books as the general public (I don't read thrillers and haven't got into the whole "The Da-Vinci Code"). I buy books from one reason - I was in a book store, I saw the book, looked through it, read the back and decided it needs to come home with me. I'm seldom wrong. Out of the 160-ish books that are mine in the house and that are mostly my own purchases (I have my own library in my room) I've disliked very few. Therefore, I was quite reluctant to read HP.
One day I changed my mind. I don't know why, perhaps it was because I've heard there is to be a movie, I can't remember, but I went and bought the first book. I read it in a day, and went back to the shop for the other two the day after. I finished both of them in two more days (I'll never forget the final chapters of PoA, when my mom wanted me to come help her... Aaaa! Frustration!).
The forth one was not yet translated. It took me a while to find it, and in the end it was my mom who got it for me. In English. During that time my spoken English was very good, but I was reading quite slowly. I finished the 636-paged-book in 4 days, staying up until 4 a.m. for the final chapters.
The fifth book was published when I was in the army, and I had to stay in the base that particular Saturday. Needless to say, I got the book the second I left the Kiria.
The sixth book was published two days before my sister's wedding, and when the publishing release date was announced I called all my friends to say that "There's a date!!!" and they all said "Congratulations, where's the ceremony?..." It was very funny.
During these last six and a half years I've become a real addict -checking "Mugglenet" everyday, a few times a day for updates, re-reading the books about twenty times and of course, watching the movies (and knowing in advance that the books are much better).
Here's the big deal - it's going to end. I'm not going to be waiting for new HP books anymore...
I'm afraid that I'll feel really empty once the final book is published and read and read again... I had a few bad periods during these six and a half years, and looking forward to HP has been my life-line (and I'm not kidding, so please don't laugh... Stop laughing!). Talking about this with my friends, they said "You'll have something else to look forward to (perhaps even a real something...)", and I know it's true, but still, it won't be the same.
I just hope that whatever happens in DH, it will be a proper ending to a seven-year-wait.
I've refused to read HP when it first came out. As a rule, I dislike best-sellers, due to the fact I don't generally have the same taste in books as the general public (I don't read thrillers and haven't got into the whole "The Da-Vinci Code"). I buy books from one reason - I was in a book store, I saw the book, looked through it, read the back and decided it needs to come home with me. I'm seldom wrong. Out of the 160-ish books that are mine in the house and that are mostly my own purchases (I have my own library in my room) I've disliked very few. Therefore, I was quite reluctant to read HP.
One day I changed my mind. I don't know why, perhaps it was because I've heard there is to be a movie, I can't remember, but I went and bought the first book. I read it in a day, and went back to the shop for the other two the day after. I finished both of them in two more days (I'll never forget the final chapters of PoA, when my mom wanted me to come help her... Aaaa! Frustration!).
The forth one was not yet translated. It took me a while to find it, and in the end it was my mom who got it for me. In English. During that time my spoken English was very good, but I was reading quite slowly. I finished the 636-paged-book in 4 days, staying up until 4 a.m. for the final chapters.
The fifth book was published when I was in the army, and I had to stay in the base that particular Saturday. Needless to say, I got the book the second I left the Kiria.
The sixth book was published two days before my sister's wedding, and when the publishing release date was announced I called all my friends to say that "There's a date!!!" and they all said "Congratulations, where's the ceremony?..." It was very funny.
During these last six and a half years I've become a real addict -checking "Mugglenet" everyday, a few times a day for updates, re-reading the books about twenty times and of course, watching the movies (and knowing in advance that the books are much better).
Here's the big deal - it's going to end. I'm not going to be waiting for new HP books anymore...
I'm afraid that I'll feel really empty once the final book is published and read and read again... I had a few bad periods during these six and a half years, and looking forward to HP has been my life-line (and I'm not kidding, so please don't laugh... Stop laughing!). Talking about this with my friends, they said "You'll have something else to look forward to (perhaps even a real something...)", and I know it's true, but still, it won't be the same.
I just hope that whatever happens in DH, it will be a proper ending to a seven-year-wait.
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Date: 2007-02-07 02:48 pm (UTC)I have seven academic Buffy books. Seven.
While I'm very happy to see Harry Potter concluded (though it's a shame it has to end), the nature of the books are very simplistic, though thankfully it got smudgier as it went along, it's a pity the greyness compromised the writing, since Ms. Rowling wrote the first three books much, much better than the latter three. I can only hope the 7th will give us some kind of catharsis.
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Date: 2007-02-08 08:56 am (UTC)To quote my diary from 2002, "I would probably kill myself if I didn't want to know how Harry Potter ends..." It was one of two things that kept me alive that time, and others. Don't ask me why I lived through my 17th year, I haven't yet discovered HP.. Or Tori.
As for your view of the quality of the books - I've always seen PoA and GoF as the height of the series, though I loved HBP very much, much more than PS or CoS. I know there are a few degrees of fandoms around HP fans, the nutties drink up every word J.K.R writes, and the less nutties have a sense of criticism. I believe that my "nuttiness degree" is higher than yours, so I tend to see the books as better than you, I guess.