[HPforGrownups] Opinions (was Harry's Motivation) (was Re: JKR's site up-date - Rumours Section

[Ladi lyndi]

No: HPFGUIDX 127350

Alla  wrote:
 
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Hm, we have to disagree sometimes, right? My approach is the same as Potioncat, I think.

But I am very very curious to understand yours. Not being sarcastic <BIG SNIP>
Alla

Lynn:
 
I'm more like Lupinlore so here is my take on it.
 
I invest emotionally and if I'm not satisfied emotionally then I feel as if I lost my economic investment.  It's one reason I don't go to the theatre to see movies much anymore.  I hate spending all that money to come out feeling disappointed.  Does that mean it has to end the way I want it too?  No but it has to end in a way that satisfies me emotionally.  For example, I hated the ending of Sommersby when the Richard Gere character died as I felt they both deserved to have happy life.  That seemed to me to be a senseless death and there should have been a different ending.  However, with Matrix, even though I would have loved to see the Keanu Reeves character live happily ever after, the ending, while not what I wanted, still made sense and was even welcome after his love interest died.
 
I will not buy books by authors I don't know.  I will borrow a book or two by them first to see if they are the type of writers where I want to invest emotionally in the characters.  If not, I won't buy their books.  If they are, I will buy their books the minute a new one comes out.  At the same time, if one of those authors disappoints more than once (let's face it, everyone can have a bad time), they come off my must buy list and I'll read it at the library until I determine it is a book I want to keep and then I'll go out and buy the paperback.
 
Obviously, with the HP series, I've had to invest economically even though I don't know if the ending will disappoint.  But, like Lupinlore, if the ending does not satisfy, any future books by JK Rowlings won't be bought until I'm satisfied it's an ending that doesn't disappoint.  So far, I'm satisfied with what I've invested economically on the books.  Then again, I got the first 4 at a used book shop in Den Haag so I really didn't invest all that much.  My real investment would be in books 5-7.  That said, if I had read books 1 and 2 first, I would not have/be invested/ing in books 3-7 as I didn't find them particularly satisfying.  Fortunately, I read books 3 and 4 first (those were the first two the second hand shop had available) and it was because of back reference from those books that books 1 and 2 were worth the investment.  By then, I was emotionally invested enough to accept the deficiencies of the first two books.
 
Bearing in mind that these are children's books, I'm reading them with an eye to whether I want to invest my time reading these books with my daughter.  Fortunately, she's only 5 so while she's seen the movies and I've read her Book 1, she won't realize until she's older that there are more stories out there.  By that time, I will either have introduced her to the rest of the series (if the ending is acceptable) or she'll learn about them by herself and decide for herself if she wishes to invest in the series.
 
I do agree with Jo that ultimately she must please herself with her writing.  At the same time, I have the option of either accepting what she writes by buying her books or rejecting it by spending my money on something I deem more worthy.
 
Hope that didn't make things clear as mud.
 
Lynn


 

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