Lunging to this finish
by henrycopelandMonday, June 30th, 2003
Having lost out in most of the arm wrestling for the family copy of Order of the Pheonix, I’m only now nearing the end. Rowling has continued to churn out amazing fiction, but is she wearying? In the penultimate fight scene, she serves up three “lunged out of nowhere” transitions. Or more. I’ll have to reread that section and tell you.
June 30th, 2003 at Jun 30, 03 | 7:45 pm
Finished yesterday. The fight scene did drag a bit, and the standard Dumbledore Explains All section was hardly full of surprises. But the very last pages worked for me, and the first 800 pages or so were plenty good. Wizard battles just aren’t so interesting; waving wands and muttering curses ain’t as compelling as Hagrid getting his ass kicked by Slavic giants, or evil big-government witches ruining the school with a bunch of nazi laws.