Grizzles on Goblet

[Cindy C.]

No: HPFGUIDX 28281

> Cindy:
> > But PoA competes nicely with Book 4 for "best written" book in 
terms of the 
> outstanding character development, subtle humor, crisp dialogue, 
and 
> brilliant use of foreshadowing, not to mention the huge number of 
> plot balls JKR has in the air at one time.<
> 
Tabouli wrote:

> Hmmm.  Now, it's a long time since I read stats on this subject, so 
I could be wrong, but IIRC the next most popular choice for "worst HP 
book" is GoF, which is the one that gets my vote.  

The HP4GU polls have a number of questions about which is our 
favorite and least favorite books.  

For least favorite book, the results are:

PS/SS - 15%
CoS - 70%
PoA - 7%
GoF - 8%

For favorite book, the results are:
PS/SS - 7%
CoS - 5%
PoA - 59%
GoF - 28%

Anyway, before I joined this group, I would have voted GoF as 
favorite, but hearing all of the valid criticisms of GoF have dropped 
it to second place for me, behind PoA.  Incidently, when I finished 
GoF for the first and second time, none of the plot problems occurred 
to me except the wand order, IIRC.  Even my gripes about windiness in 
the first half of the book didn't trouble me much, because I was so 
jazzed about the second half that my first-half gripes were long 
forgotten.

So if plot problems only occur to me after reading a book for the 
third time, helped along by the collective brain-power of hundreds of 
people finding plot holes, then GoF is still probably a pretty solid 
effort.

Anyway, another thing that helps PoA and GoF along, I suppose, is 
that the new characters introduced are really great.  In PoA, we get 
Black and Lupin, and in GoF we get Moody.  All three are some of 
JKR's best, and the books can only help from such strong new 
characters.

Cindy