Re: When all is said and done...

David Sueme escribió:
On May 31, 9:25 am, Bill Blakely <wcblak...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Now that it's completed, how has your estimation of the series and of
JKR changed?... Having now reread it from beginning to end myself, I must admit my
opinion of her and of the series has gone down.

About 10 months ago I posted a long essay that argued that JKR ran
into trouble ending book 5, she didn't actually write the middle
chapters of book six, and that book seven is all smoke and noise but
no real coherent central idea.

There is an idea. The problem is that this idea has nothing to do with the rest of the series, specially the three previous books.

Now sit down before reading!... about a dozen of the regulars posted
comments largely agreeing with me. "Drusilla", for instance, remarked
that the worst part was that she had little choice but to agree with
David M. Sueme!

Yep, still in therapy.

And I might as well add that JKR's unseemly suing of someone who
helped to make her the huge financial success she became, which was
foreshadowed by the way she turned her back on the small, independent
bookstores who did so much for her early on in the US, has done
nothing for my opinion of her.

Rowling is terrified that Vander Stoop's concordance will be so much
better than hers that she will be completely revealed as a wand-order
challenged nitwit. This is a total embarassment.

She has "embarrassed" herself enough accepting that she had checked the Potter Lexicon while witting the books. Which is an indication of what you say below, that she couldn't manage all the stuff she has written.

There is a classic English language phrase - "bit off more than [s]he
could chew". It's not really a witicism. Is it an "homily"? - I'm
not sure and could use some help here. But on this I'm sure - it
EXACTLY describes what happened to Rowling in regards the more complex
novels she decided to attempt after the unexpected critical success of
Azkaban.

Azkaban was the best of the books. It had a plot and good characters. When people asked me my opinion about HP and they don't feel like reading, I advised them to start with PoA, because it's the lest childish of the first three books and it's, my opinion, when the story really starts.

GoF had potential to be as good as PoA, but somehow JKR decided that "bigger was better" (something that, at least in my career, I completely hate, hence, my dislike for Calatrava) and stuffed her books with several information that ended up being more than what she could handle. The same about OotP (despite the fact that it's my second favorite: I have to be honest).

To make it short: myself and a significant number of the "better"
posters here agree with your assessment of the situation.

Dave


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