Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince? Options

[mmmchocolate]

so basically this movie is 2 years over due and i am so freaking excited! i just bought my midnight release tickets last night.....idk if i can wait 8 more days!!!! anyone else a fan of the books? and movies i guess? i really hope im not the only fan

[Galcobar]

Meh, I'd not call them masterpieces. They're appealing -- but the English schoolboy orphan who turns out to be king/wizard/prince isn't a new idea. Plot and pacing is questionable, characters are largely caricatures, and Rowling clearly has no issues with deus ex machina. However, as I said, they are appealing. I've read them all, but I've not found myself wanting to re-read them as I do most books. To put that in perspective, I generally read a book a half a dozen times over the course of a couple of weeks before turning to the next.

As a reader, I find myself driven to distraction by Rowling's addition to adverbs. At one point I counted and came up with somewhere around 20 "ly" in ten pages.

My favourite book for masterful use of the language -- prose in almost poetic form -- is Guy Gavriel Kay's duology "The Sarantine Mosaic" (Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors).