Tuesday, June 27, 2006

I Really Hate This

Since I'm not a major Harry Potter fan, I don't really care how the series ends--so long as it does because I feel a responsibility to keep reading the things. However, these little hints J.K. Rowling loves to give out between books set my teeth on edge. To me, they seem like nothing but a marketing ploy, an attempt to keep interest high while she's working on her bloated manuscripts.

And why her obsession with killing people off and hinting about it between books? "Guess who will die--no, go on, guess!" Personally, I think there is a school of thought that believes killing off a character in a children's book is the mark of an "important" work. Expose the little nippers to the reality of life.

Death is not necessarily the hallmark of good writing.

2 Comments:

Blogger Camille said...

The family and I were discussing why she does this. None of our speculations were flattering. Despite being rich and famous does she still pathetically crave attention and feel the need to remind people that she is writing away?

As a fan, I wish she would just keep everything to herself and let us discover the ending. With all the listservs, blogs, newsgroups, websites and discussion boards devoted to the series, I have to believe someone, somewhere has already come up with the ending. Soon after Book 7's publication we will have: HP and the Lawsuit from Hell.

Until then I wish she would zip it. You are completely correct, death does NOT equal great writing.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

I knew the dofus kamas so I always try my best to earn them more and more to make myself strong. I have never played the game before, at the beginning I did not know what is so I went to kill the monsters with the kamas that I earned with myself in the game. I will duty bound to a friend to help brush the dofus gold together with my friends. I spend a good relationship is then fly to tears. If my levels are very high, I can go to buy dofus kamas more and more and I will not depend on my friends to help me to earn them. I get some cheap kamas as the gifts to encourage me.

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