Deadly hollows JKR's "FAVORITE BOOK" of the series!.

[eggplant107]

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"lupinlore" <rdoliver30 at ...> wrote:

> Errrm....no. For one thing JKR also
> said that HBP was her favorite book
> since PoA, and that one turned out
> ... problematic

There is no disputing matters of taste, but I loved HBP. In that
regard I don't think I'm an oddball (in other respects maybe but not
in that one). In the most sincere sort of opinion poll possible, the
sort where you vote with your dollars, a case could made that HBP has
been enjoyed by more people than any book since Gutenberg invented his
press 550 years ago; after all, nobody really enjoys reading the Bible
or The Quotations Of Chairman Mao.

> what else is she going to say? 

Well, she could say what she said about book 4, that she wrote it in
only 10 months and it might have been better if she had more time. Or
she could say what she said about book 5, that it was overlong (I
disagree with her about that). Or she could say what she said about
book 3, that it was the easiest of all her books to write but there
seems to be an inverse relationship between ease in writing and the
quality of writing. Or she could say what she said about book 2, that
halfway through it she suffered writers block for the only time in her
life. Or she could say what she said about book 6, that some people
won't like it. Or she could say that after finishing book 7 she might
go back to book 1 and rewrite the entire series because she thinks
she's a better writer now than she was a decade ago. 

The most severe book critic of JKR is JKR. When that same severe
critic says it's the best book in the series I don't believe it is
just a marketing gimmick, she already has more money than God, I
believe it is her sincere opinion. Well sure she could be wrong about
that, but I can't just ignore that opinion with a wave of my hand, it
means something.

Eggplant