From: DROPdraco.malfoy@countermail.comCAPITALLETTERS   
      
   On Wed, 4 May 2011 22:10:55 +0800, Deevo wrote:   
      
   > "Dr. Hotsalt"  wrote in message   
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   >    
   >> The movie series like the books can be split up into the first five   
   >> and last two. In the books, nobody can convince be otherwise that   
   >> J.K. (or highly paid ghost writer), just cashed in the last two books   
   >> as lazy pulp fiction. The first five books were good, the last two   
   >> felt like it was written by someone who only had a passing   
   >> familiarity with the HP franchise.   
   >   
   > I agree with your assessment to a point but not your reasoning.  I   
   > personally found HBP to be an above average book and certainly more   
   > entertaining, though with less exposition, than OOTP.  I'd go as far to say   
   > it was my favourite of the books despite it's dire conclusion.   
   >   
   > DH by comparison I found to be quite ordinary and seemed to be written more   
   > in the style of the first two books which makes me suspect that great chunks   
   > of it were penned around the time of the first and second books.   
   >   
   > From POA through to HBP the characters grew more complex and three   
   > dimensional yet by book seven they seemed to have been reduced in depth.   
   > That and there were some pretty blatant contridictions with the earlier   
   > books.   
   >   
   >> The movies were droll until Half-Blooded Bore and I can't imagine what   
   >> dullness can come from the last (or penultimate part).   
   >   
   > If your not expecting academy award standard stuff then you might enjoy it.   
   > You sound a bit cynical though.   
      
   Cynical isn't "Dr." Hotsalt's issue. Bipolar fukknutzoidism is.   
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