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More Plots and Idiots
Sep. 8th, 2005 11:41 pm30 Aug 2005
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling - Bloomsbury, 2005
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Were it not that she has become one of the richest people in the country, it would be tempting to feel sorry for J.K. Rowling. The huge weight of expectations that the Bloomsbury marketing machine has generated must have placed a tremendous strain upon her as she was writing this book. In addition she has the problem of the law of diminishing returns that afflicts any sequel set in the same location and with the same characters. So how has she fared? Well, the good news is that on the whole this book is up to her previous standards - the inventiveness is still present, there is at least one entertaining new character (the celebrity-obsessed Professor Slughorn) and the dialogue sparkles as always. The bad news is that some of the plotting flaws are even more in evidence than in the previous one.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling - Bloomsbury, 2005
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Were it not that she has become one of the richest people in the country, it would be tempting to feel sorry for J.K. Rowling. The huge weight of expectations that the Bloomsbury marketing machine has generated must have placed a tremendous strain upon her as she was writing this book. In addition she has the problem of the law of diminishing returns that afflicts any sequel set in the same location and with the same characters. So how has she fared? Well, the good news is that on the whole this book is up to her previous standards - the inventiveness is still present, there is at least one entertaining new character (the celebrity-obsessed Professor Slughorn) and the dialogue sparkles as always. The bad news is that some of the plotting flaws are even more in evidence than in the previous one.
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