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progI have started reading Deathly Hallows, after ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cthulhia read the same copy in less than 24 hours. It is the third thing down in a stack of SF I am in the middle of reading (within PKD's Eye in the Sky, given to me by Ricky, itself within Dogland, an American magical-realism story that R. Cory was breathless about on Boing Boing a couple weeks ago). So far I'm finding it as nice a confection as the last book, which I enjoyed a great deal just a couple of months ago.
Yesterday stumbled acrossdictator555's copy of "The End of Harry Potter?" an exegesis written by Dave Langford, one of the B-est BNFs in SF and the publisher of Ansible. While sold as speculation about the final book, it's actually a fun, breezy tour through how the merits and flaws of the first six books line up against the whole genre, and Langford's admiration for the series seems to lie less in the story itself and more in watching Rowling mature as a writer over its course. I might like to borrow it later.
(Also he spends a few pages at the start grumbling about mainstream critics' frequent insistence that the series transcends the fantasy genre because it's actually about real human issues and not just sweaty dudes stabbing giant lizards, and this echoes other grumbling I've read recently...)
cthulhia read the same copy in less than 24 hours. It is the third thing down in a stack of SF I am in the middle of reading (within PKD's Eye in the Sky, given to me by Ricky, itself within Dogland, an American magical-realism story that R. Cory was breathless about on Boing Boing a couple weeks ago). So far I'm finding it as nice a confection as the last book, which I enjoyed a great deal just a couple of months ago. Yesterday stumbled across
dictator555's copy of "The End of Harry Potter?" an exegesis written by Dave Langford, one of the B-est BNFs in SF and the publisher of Ansible. While sold as speculation about the final book, it's actually a fun, breezy tour through how the merits and flaws of the first six books line up against the whole genre, and Langford's admiration for the series seems to lie less in the story itself and more in watching Rowling mature as a writer over its course. I might like to borrow it later. (Also he spends a few pages at the start grumbling about mainstream critics' frequent insistence that the series transcends the fantasy genre because it's actually about real human issues and not just sweaty dudes stabbing giant lizards, and this echoes other grumbling I've read recently...)