Sunday, August 16, 2009

August Blog #2: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J. K. Rowling, published 2003

I have just completed the book.

Was Order of the Phoenix as good as the Goblet of Fire? No, probably not. And I didn't like it as much as the Prisoner of Azkaban either. But it was better than the first two novels, in my opinion, and that makes it pretty dang good.

Dumbledore is much cooler in OotP than he is in the other novels, in which he doesn't do much. Harry still hasn't changed that much, which is unfortunate. He has pretty much never wavered from the path of good. Malfoy is Malfoy, not necessarily a good thing, but I understand why he is in the novels.

Rowling is obviously a very good writer, but she NEVER stops using adverbs, especially in dialogue attribution. It's a little ridiculous. So many "Harry said menacingly"s and "Hermione roared imperiously"s, it's downright bonkers. Otherwise the series is very good, and I look forward to completing the series.

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