Thursday, January 21, 2010


Harry Potter
And The Goblet of Fire
J.K.Rowling

He saw everything in front of him as though it was a very highly
colored dream. There were hundreds and hundreds of faces staring
down at him from stands that had been magicked there since he'd
last stood on this spot. And there was the horntail, at the other end
of the enclosure, crouched low over her clutch of eggs, her wings
half-furled, her evil, yellow eyes upon him, a monstrous, scaly,
black lizard, thrashing her spiked tail, leaving yard-long gouge
marks in the hard ground. The crowd was making a great deal of
noise, but whether friendly or not, Harry didn't know or care. it
was time to do what he had to do . . . to focus his mind, entirely
and absolutely, upon the thing that was his only chance. . . .

I really like J.K.Rowling because she doesn't have real elaborate descriptions that go on and on like other authors. She's gets right to the point without making you sleep right through till the end. And she deliberately puts in these strange things that make you wonder what she means. And I have got to say she is probably the best book series author I have ever read. One reason why is because everything the stories matches what she has said from the beginning of the story to the end. And because I can tell she had to modify her work so that the finishing result would be perfect.

1 comment:

  1. The characteristic you are commenting on in your last two sentences is "consistency," and it is definitely a virtue. In general, we try to avoid beginning a sentence with "and," and we certainly wouldn't do it more than once. Is there a stronger word than "real" you could have used in the first sentence? With the "really," it gets repetitive. I like Rowling, too; I think she accomplished what she set out to do very well.

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