Harry Potter (not really)
| | So, I checked out Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows this afternoon around four pm, and finished it by ten (I had read around 70 pages today at work). My reading speed scares me sometimes.
I have no intention of talking about the book other than to say that it was better than the two before it, and I still think Harry's a jerk. Here's what I want to talk about instead. I think there might be something wrong with me. I would have been happier with a Diana Wynn Jones style of story... in fact I'm really quite fond of the Chrestomanci books (the Nine Lives of Christopher Chant or Conrad's Fate to get specific). And what I like about them is that the plot meanders a bit exploring how cool various aspects of this world are, and there is a point (a bad guy, but not The BAD Guy). I don't need an Epic Saga, in fact the Save the World focus of that style of story irritates me a little. I just want a romp through an interesting world that is only sort of related to my own, light, funny at times, and with a -little- romance. Because the interpersonal matters (will he get the girl? Will it be -adorable-? Will it be tragic but beautiful? Will he wake up 25 years later in the middle of the night and say "This is not my beautiful house. This is not my beautiful wife? Same as it ever was!" I NEED TO KNOW?) to me more than Vanquishing Evil. There, I said it. I think as a fantasy geek I just blasphemed.
I just want kissing AND dragons (and snarkiness), is that so wrong?
posted by Amber at 10:10 PM
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