/lit/ - Literature

So, do you recommend it?

Does Voldemort come back in this one?

>>3114609
No
>>3114627
No

>>3114607
My mother loved it, but she also loved Eragon, so what the fuck does she know?

I'm glad it sucked. JK Rowling is a 1 hit wonder who got lucky with Harry Potter.

>>3114607
2deep4u

It does get better. Not a good book by any stretch of the imagination. It is still overcrowded with just too many characters and plots, sure they interconnect but some of the plots are just fucking boring (such as anything not involving the teenagers or that fucked up meth addict).

So is it like a sequel or what?

>>It is still overcrowded with just too many characters and plots, sure they interconnect but some of the plots are just fucking boring

Much like the Harry Potter books.

Lev Grossman from Time called it:
>a big, ambitious, brilliant, profane, funny, deeply upsetting and magnificently eloquent novel of contemporary England, rich with literary intelligence and entirely bereft of bullshit.

>mfw I saw Lev Grossman's wikipedia page

>>3115003
The review pretty much sums up the book. Too many big words for no reason. She'll use 7 adjectives to describe each and every object in the room, for no fucking reason. Really slows the book down.

>reading anything by an author who made her name with fantasy novels

It was really boring.

It took a long time for it to really take off, but in the end I enjoyed it.

>>3115039
>reading anything by an author who made their name with fantasy novels but fantasy novels

FTFY

>>3115091
A book shouldn't take 300 pages just to get interesting.

>>3115119
I know, that did put me off, but I read it anyway.

>>3115125
I wish I had your fortitude but I'd rather not read a book that is 3/4 struggle, 1/4 happiness

>>3115135
I hope you haven't tried to read Joyce

>>3115139
No, I have not.

>>3115135
The main reason I pulled through was because I was assigned to review it.

>>3115152
I work on a monthly student paper, yes.

>>3115146
>assigned to review it

Please tell me more, do you work for a newspaper or something?

It shouldn't be a surprise. JKR hasn't written a good book since The Goblet of Fire.

>>3115182
>implying Half Blood Prince isn't the best book

>>3115225
> best book
> not Order of the Pheonix

> dat Luna
> dat Hermione
> dat Neville
> dat climax
> dat motherfucking Umbridge

Harry Potter is a decent series but the one thing that stands out for me is how incredible Umbridge is as a villain

>>3115302
yeah, haven't had a villain like that since the last James Cameron movie

>>3115225
I chang my mind on whether HBP or OotP is th best in the series very other week.

Regardless
>implying Goblet of fire wasn't the 2nd worst of the series, second only to Chamber of secrts

>>3115313

>>3115325
>>3115302
>>3115225
>>3115182
6 > 5 > 7 > 4 > 3 > 1 > 2

You know it to be true

I really don't want to pay for this book, but I'm number 204 out of 400 in line for requesting it at my library.

>>3115033
>"She'll use 7 adjectives to describe each and every object in the room, for no fucking reason."
>implying she didn't do that in every single one of the Harry Potter books

>>3115362
It is worse here. Oh my god so much worse. You have no idea.

why the FUCK would you want to read a book written by j.k. rowling that wasn't harry potter? why the fuck have so many of you actually read this?

>>3115420
Curiosity. Hopes that it would be good.

It really wasn't. I didn't even make it is far as OP. Only made it about 60 pages.

well basically now that she's a billionaire, she can write whatever she wants and don't give a fuck.

she's pretty much my role model

HBP was crap. Before that you got the feeling that Harry was an exceptional wizard (learning the patronus at 13, winning an international tournament, breaking out of Voldemort's imperio, training other wizards). Then in Half-Blood Prince you realize how crap he is when it turns out Snape was inventing spells at his age while he struggles to even cast spells without shouting. Voldemort meanwhile would have been becoming immortal while killing people and Harry's father would have been one of the few people in the country to be an animagus. All while Harry farts around playing quidditch and fawning after some ginger whore.

My god HBP ruined the series I dunno how you guys loved it. I made.

>>3115525
Harry was never that great. For fucks sake Book 1 established that. He was good at a few things but overall he is pretty average. Book 4 had that pretty heavy too and Book 5 had like an entire chapter dedicated to his angst of sucking.