harry potter, chosen one; by choice, not prophecy...
Finally!!!
I have finally finished the Half Blood Prince. It took longer than expected, apparently 5 chapters a day will take about 6 days. But as usual there are better things to do. This book is considerably shorter than the Order of Phoenix, about a hundred odd pages shorter?
Well, considering I started reading the book so late, I've seen all the spoilers. But even knowing the fact that Dumbledore's going to die and that Snape's the Half Blood Prince didn't really effect the intended result of the book. I was still just as shocked when Dumbledore died, but he's only human too i guess. And Snape's just a prat.
The title of the book is THE Half Blood Prince( from now on it's HBP, the name's too long ) but the story is not centred on the title as in the previous books. I felt that the story with or without the potions book owned by the HBP would have gone on smoothly. There are bits and pieces here and there but if JK had expanded on the HBP then maybe she'll be able to meet the number of pages in the Order of the Phoenix.
So now I will sugesst afew new titles for the book:
Harry Potter and the Underaged Death Eater.
This is the main concern that Harry had preoccupied himself this time,Malfoy. After the Harry Potter series, JK could write 7 books from Malfoy's point of view. I bet the line most often seen would be something like; "While Potter was... blah blah blah..."
Harry Potter and the Snog Fest.
Okie, honestly there was not as much as I thought there would be. Reading the comments on the Harry Potter website, I had an impression that JK Rowling had unwittingly written child porn. But I guess this title will get more people to buy the book.
Harry Potter and the Slug Club.
Slughorn is the one cookie characther. He reminded me of the ass in book2, that guy called Lockhart. But at least Slughorn's able to walk the talk. But I guess I know why she didn't choose this title, the Slug Club only existed in the first half of the book.
Harry Potter and the Begining of Voldemort.
This is the main idea, revolving around the lessons that Dumbledore was giving to Harry.
Harry Potter and the Fall of Dumbledore.
Okie, this is the ULTIMATE spolier. Disregard the pun in the title as well.
Okie, maybe writing titles are not that easy. But at least it's dramatic, the HBP has a great effect, made me want to read it to find out who he is. ( Knowing beforehand from spoilers did not change this )
The book is really a much easier read than the Order of Phoenix, less angst. It's also not as dark. In the OoP( no prize what this stands for ), the people and places were all depicted in a dark and troubled times. They talked in the dark, ate in the dark, fought in the dark, looked for things in the dark, slept in the dark (no choice i guess).
Well, since most of you have finished reading it. Hogwarts might not be open next school term. And even if it did, Harry might not be returning!!! I guess the second one is more alarming than the first, the book is about Harry not Hogwarts. This is a clever ploy by JK, without Hogwarts, the book is no longer confined to 7 years of school. She can take 10, 15, 10000 books before finally writing Harry killing Voldemort, but I'll bet that Hogwarts will reopen AND someone would convince Harry to go back to school.
Last tthing i want to say about the book is the way that Harry broke up with Ginny in the end. It reminds me of a certain movie, Spider-man. Can it be true that JK is running out of ideas?!? Harry broke up because he didn't want to endanger Ginny's life, same reason Peter gave to MaryJane. Harry broke up at Dumbledore's furneral, Peter broke up at Uncle Ben's furneral. How coincidental can it get?
In the end, I still give the book a resounding two thumbs up. ( Like anyone give a hoot... hahahaha )
hahahaha... tomorrow is national day!!! YAY!!! it's the second day of school and it's a public holiday... still don't have my 5th module... just bid this morning... hope to have it by the end of the day... if not there's still tomorrow...
on a totally different and non related note... xiaxue has not been updating her commercial blog... it's now like updated once in 3 days... not really sad... but it's one less read...
I have finally finished the Half Blood Prince. It took longer than expected, apparently 5 chapters a day will take about 6 days. But as usual there are better things to do. This book is considerably shorter than the Order of Phoenix, about a hundred odd pages shorter?
Well, considering I started reading the book so late, I've seen all the spoilers. But even knowing the fact that Dumbledore's going to die and that Snape's the Half Blood Prince didn't really effect the intended result of the book. I was still just as shocked when Dumbledore died, but he's only human too i guess. And Snape's just a prat.
The title of the book is THE Half Blood Prince( from now on it's HBP, the name's too long ) but the story is not centred on the title as in the previous books. I felt that the story with or without the potions book owned by the HBP would have gone on smoothly. There are bits and pieces here and there but if JK had expanded on the HBP then maybe she'll be able to meet the number of pages in the Order of the Phoenix.
So now I will sugesst afew new titles for the book:
Harry Potter and the Underaged Death Eater.
This is the main concern that Harry had preoccupied himself this time,Malfoy. After the Harry Potter series, JK could write 7 books from Malfoy's point of view. I bet the line most often seen would be something like; "While Potter was... blah blah blah..."
Harry Potter and the Snog Fest.
Okie, honestly there was not as much as I thought there would be. Reading the comments on the Harry Potter website, I had an impression that JK Rowling had unwittingly written child porn. But I guess this title will get more people to buy the book.
Harry Potter and the Slug Club.
Slughorn is the one cookie characther. He reminded me of the ass in book2, that guy called Lockhart. But at least Slughorn's able to walk the talk. But I guess I know why she didn't choose this title, the Slug Club only existed in the first half of the book.
Harry Potter and the Begining of Voldemort.
This is the main idea, revolving around the lessons that Dumbledore was giving to Harry.
Harry Potter and the Fall of Dumbledore.
Okie, this is the ULTIMATE spolier. Disregard the pun in the title as well.
Okie, maybe writing titles are not that easy. But at least it's dramatic, the HBP has a great effect, made me want to read it to find out who he is. ( Knowing beforehand from spoilers did not change this )
The book is really a much easier read than the Order of Phoenix, less angst. It's also not as dark. In the OoP( no prize what this stands for ), the people and places were all depicted in a dark and troubled times. They talked in the dark, ate in the dark, fought in the dark, looked for things in the dark, slept in the dark (no choice i guess).
Well, since most of you have finished reading it. Hogwarts might not be open next school term. And even if it did, Harry might not be returning!!! I guess the second one is more alarming than the first, the book is about Harry not Hogwarts. This is a clever ploy by JK, without Hogwarts, the book is no longer confined to 7 years of school. She can take 10, 15, 10000 books before finally writing Harry killing Voldemort, but I'll bet that Hogwarts will reopen AND someone would convince Harry to go back to school.
Last tthing i want to say about the book is the way that Harry broke up with Ginny in the end. It reminds me of a certain movie, Spider-man. Can it be true that JK is running out of ideas?!? Harry broke up because he didn't want to endanger Ginny's life, same reason Peter gave to MaryJane. Harry broke up at Dumbledore's furneral, Peter broke up at Uncle Ben's furneral. How coincidental can it get?
In the end, I still give the book a resounding two thumbs up. ( Like anyone give a hoot... hahahaha )
hahahaha... tomorrow is national day!!! YAY!!! it's the second day of school and it's a public holiday... still don't have my 5th module... just bid this morning... hope to have it by the end of the day... if not there's still tomorrow...
on a totally different and non related note... xiaxue has not been updating her commercial blog... it's now like updated once in 3 days... not really sad... but it's one less read...
posted by alvin_c at 10:30 am
3 Comments:
hey nice post! book review arh? haha english is over. and i love the SNOG FEST thing... quite humourous. actually, i think harry will get help from the fella who took the horcrux... yah and he wun go back to hogwarts. ok thats itD:
Haha! I like Harry and the Slug Club. But when they were promoting the book, i actually thought half blood prince is some mysterious hot shot from the ministry or some great wizards..or something grander...turned out it revolves around a stupid potion book.
quite agree coz the half blood prince was very Xtra ... not a very important role
>> Great ideas
hahas
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