Search Results for "J.K. Rowling": 10 results
Rowling, J.K.: (01) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Like six gazillion other people, I saw the movie version of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (yes, here it's the Sorceror's Stone, but I refuse to participate in the dumbing-down of books) earlier this week, and...
Rowling, J.K.: (01-02) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (audio): If I've done my math right, I should be able to listen to all of the Harry Potter book on audio before the last one is released in July; so I started with the first two, Harry Potter and the...
Rowling, J.K.: (03) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (audio): Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is certainly better than its predecessor and may well be the best of the lot, though I'll leave that assessment until I finish my re-listening/re-read. Based on listening to the audiobook, I think...
Rowling, J.K.: (04) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The problem with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is very simple: nearly half the book (by my reckoning, 17 of 37 chapters) exists only because of an idiot plot. That's a lot of filler, and while it's nonobjectionable...
Rowling, J.K.: (05) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: I said I was going to re-read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by (of course) J.K. Rowling, before reviewing it properly. And I was going to, honest. But it just sat there and I kept finding...
Rowling, J.K.: (05) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (re-read): Alas, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is not any more enjoyable on a re-read than it was the first time around. And I have to disagree with my prior self: the pre-Hogwarts section is objectively long but...
Rowling, J.K.: (06) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a considerable improvement over the last book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and bears out my theory that Phoenix was the Teckla of the series: the painful...
Rowling, J.K.: (06) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (re-read): Over the weekend, I finished my pre-book-7 re-read with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, or, as I found myself thinking of it, Harry Potter and the Belated Infodump. It looks a little worse on a re-read, now that I'm...
Rowling, J.K.: (07) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: When it's all said and done, you know what Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ultimately is? It's a Harry Potter book. Which is to say, it has roughly the same strengths and weaknesses as the other Harry Potter books....
Rowling, J.K.: (07) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (spoilers): This post contains book-destroying SPOILERS for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Here's the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake....