[HPforGrownups] Re: Hopes for Book 5

[Pen Robinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 59203


On Sunday, Jun 1, 2003, at 22:54 Europe/London, Anna Hemmant wrote:
>
> I've lurked and read with amazement at what some people have said
> about JKR's skill at writing, or allusions to it in this thread. I
> know you've all got valid points about the various things that you
> don't want to see, but don't you trust JKR? I do. I trust that if she
> does use something that we all feel now has been flogged to within an
> inch of it's life now, then she's a good enough author that it won't
> seem contrived. And it's not just the tight plots that I love her
> books for; it's the language she uses, her sentance structure, the
> way she expresses herself; it's delicious.

Hem hem.  JKR does write wonderfully - else we would not be here - but 
is not without flaw.  My main hope for book 5 is that she has polished 
it.

> So since we're all
> actually here, and we spend so long each day talking and mulling over
> what has happened and will happen, I think you should all know in
> you're hearts that whatever the new book brings, it'll be a wonderful
> read and we'll all hate anything that makes us put it down, and we'll
> be saddened when we come to the ned of it, for it will be at least
> another year before we get to read anything of the caliber again.

Well, of course it'll be good.   If it's as good as GoF we shall be 
happy.  (If it's as good as PoA, we shall be ecstatic!)

However, JKR is not the only provider of tight plots and exciting 
language.  If you want a jolly good read, after OOtP and in between 
discussions thereof, try anything by Lois McMaster Bujold.

Pen