Harry Potter, of those out which do you like?

[sckeener]

Everyone loves a poll.....which Harry Potter books do you like?

I like all of them except Goblet of Fire. It makes no sense to me every time I read it. One example of why I don't think it makes much sense is the contests. Only one of them is good for an audience, the dragon egg snatch. All the others are not good for spectators. Magic TV screens would have solved the issue, but would have ruined the maze scene at the end.

 

[Richards]

I like them all, although that's not to say that there aren't parts in some of them that I don't particularly like. (The game of quidditch is particularly nonsensical to me - not the fact that wizards have developed a sports game involving riding broomsticks, which is perfectly fine, but the silly scoring system and the duration that some quidditch games are supposed to go to.) But the few things I dislike about any of the books aren't enough for me to dislike the book as a whole.

Johnathan

 

[Meloncov]

(The game of quidditch is particularly nonsensical to me - not the fact that wizards have developed a sports game involving riding broomsticks, which is perfectly fine, but the silly scoring system and the duration that some quidditch games are supposed to go to.)
Johnathan

They are living in the country that invented Cricket. The scoring system is silly for an individual game (as it comes down to who gets the snitch 99% of the time) but total points are used as tiebreaks in the legues, making the other players more important.


I like all of the books (excepting Deathly Hollows, which I obviously currently have no opionon on), but the quality does vary. Both Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phenix are longer than they needed to be, and the sixth book felt like it was just a set up for the seventh.

 

[Plane Sailing]

I like the first four.

The fifth one was over-long, too much angst and stupidity from Harry, too much stupidity from everyone else who won't spend the time to talk to him.

The sixth was over-long and completely forgettable (even though it was the most recent one that I read). I remember

Spoiler

dumbledores death

but nothing else from the book - although I seem to recall being annoyed at Harrys stupidity several times again.

For my money the earlier books were much better for their short length and more focussed story. I can't help wondering whether the later books suffer from 'important writers get to ignore editors' syndrome.

Cheers

 

[sckeener]

(The game of quidditch is particularly nonsensical to me - not the fact that wizards have developed a sports game involving riding broomsticks, which is perfectly fine, but the silly scoring system and the duration that some quidditch games are supposed to go to.)

Then take heart that JKR said she was happy that she wouldn't have to write another quidditch game for deathly hollows.

I agreed the scoring is messed up. It works to make Seekers look like stars. In a way it reminds me of baseball. The game seems to come down to two people. In quidditch it is the seekers and in baseball it is the pitcher/batter....I guess in a way Beaters/Bludgers are also in the mix for quidditch....but they seem more like hazards than rivals.

Any who, since it comes down to two people, it feels like the rest of the game can be ignored.

I like all of them except Goblet of Fire

I also disliked in GoF and the rest of the books afterward except HBP JRK's depiction of boys in love. I think she writes from a female PoV how a boy thinks. I don't think she gets it right or at least it didn't ring true to me. Admittedly I understand since she is a woman trying to write how a guy thinks, but all the romance scenes just didn't work for me except Ginny & Harry...especially when he entered the common room, Ginny jumped on him and he just kissed her...that seemed genuine to me....

basically I think she puts chick's minds into guys heads....

 

[Jeysie]

Prisoner of Azkaban is still my favorite HP book. It's tightly written, with most of the threads of the story weaving artfully into the Shrieking Shack scene, and the rest finishing out with the Time Turner antics.

Plus I love time travel in all its odd incarnations.

*Plus* I'm a Remus Lupin fangirl. While there's several HP characters I like, I think Professor Lupin, Arthur Weasley, and Neville are the ones I'd want to spend time talking to if they were real people.

As for the rest of the books, I mostly liked them. I'd have to go read them again and get them more fresh in my head to point out more specifically what things I did and didn't like.

Peace & Luv, Liz

 

[Wombat]

(waits to answer until the last one comes out)

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I enjoyed the first three immensely. I thought Goblet of Fire was good, Order of the Phoenix was OK, and Half-Blood Prince was kind of blah. It wasn't bad, but I felt it was lacking. I think Plane Sailing might have hit it with it just feeling like a set up for the last book.

Not sure how they are going to make Half-Blood Prince into a movie that will be worth seeing.

Overall I'm enjoyed the series and I'm looking forward to the final book, but I am also glad it will be the final book.

 

[sckeener]

Not sure how they are going to make Half-Blood Prince into a movie that will be worth seeing.

depends on what they focus on....I could see some people liking the back story on Lord Voldemort...I could see some people liking Ginny & Harry.....I could see others just wanting to see that finale battle at the school with Dumbledore's death.

I think it really depends on the final book though....deathly hallows will probably shift the focus.

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

I skipped the first two books because I saw the movies, so I've only read Azkaban, Goblet, Phoenix, and Half-Blood, but I thought they were all great.