Feelings on OoP

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 80014

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "msbeadsley" <msbeadsley at y...> 
wrote:

> 
> I honestly cannot read it through again.  Not yet.  I made it 
twice, 
> but now I just flip back and forth and look things up and read a 
> chapter or two, but not in order.  It is incredibly claustrophobic 
> (and I'm not, usually):  Sirius is closed up in the Black mansion, 
> and Harry is trapped first at the Dursleys and then inside his own 
> head.  He doesn't even have the occasional freedom of the skies; 
his 
> broom has been arrested.
>  
I read it once, and I think that'll be it for me.  I've read other 
people say that they disliked it at first but liked it better after 
they'd read it twice, three times, one person even FIVE times.  I 
don't know if it's really that the book's good qualities require 
this much reading, or that after enough repetition, one becomes 
numbed to all the distasteful elements.  I don't think that's the 
mark of a good book, frankly.  It's over 800 pages long; anyone who 
gets through that much verbiage is more than a superficial reader, 
and I think if a writer can't win her audience after that much 
attention and time, she's failed in her job.  I've gone this far, 
I'll read to the end of the series, but to be honest, JKR has gotten 
her last royalty from me.  I won't be pre-ordering the next book on 
Amazon like I did this time; I can wait to get a used copy.

Wanda