JKR Does The Business

It must be the single most anticipated work of popular literature since Dickens. Seriously, she must be sitting around in Scotland absolutely petrified of what the public reaction is going to be. But, heck, JKR pulls it off and then some. There is a substantial slow patch, and lots and lots of exposition near the end, but it starts off tremendously well, never gets boring, and the final third hit every right note for me.
On top of that, it is very clear that she knew precisely what she was doing.
If you’ve liked the last Potter books, you’ll like this one. I did.
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Absolutely no spoilers provided. And by all means tread very carefully on the net until you’ve read it if you care about such things.

10 thoughts on “JKR Does The Business”

  1. I missed something…. how did you get your hands on an early copy? Or you part of the black market?

  2. Some dude or dudette got a copy and literally sat down with a camera and photographed each page, then released the images on the net earlier this week. The resulting file is all over the internets, if you know where to look.

  3. The local evening rag here is crap. It is a bit like getting the woman’s weekly every evening of the week. I don’t pick it up. However something drew my attention to it and I’m surprised you didn’t hear the shriek of utter despair and frustration when I read what happens/doesn’t happen in the HEADLINE.- IN THE HEADLINE!!! You’d have to have been blind not to have seen it. Oh how I wish my German was poor enough not to have understood it. Today I wrote them an email today telling them exactly what I thought of them. I’m still incensed.

  4. Mate, that sucks. A big motivator for me to seek out an early download was because I knew that was the only way to ensure I wasn’t spoiled!

  6. Yeah, it made me happy too. (And for some reason, Joe, your comment went into my junk filter. I have no idea why but just accidentally found it now!)

  7. Shame on you. *wag of finger*
    While I accept you don’t want anything spoiled (I am reading the book right now, so please don’t) you have helped, by providing a willing participant, in the unethical theft of someone else’s intellectual and creative rights.
    You of all people, trying to get out there with your own written material, should have upheld the honour of the game. Just because she hit pay dirt and is filthy rich doesn’t mean that people should so blatantly shrug off copyright protection, the only thing protecting creative people.
    It bad enough that people are no longer able to sustain a career in the west end thanks to reality shows but now things like this just whittle away the rights of all creative people the world over weather acting singing or writing.
    It’s Work, dam hard work. Respect the effort and pay the due.
    *shakes his head in disbelief”

  8. I accept your disapproval. I won’t do the long and boring defence of my actions here. Suffice it to say that Cal has now purchased a copy to restore karmic balance.

  10. I found out one of the spoiler details last night, because some woman in a bookshop was explaining very loudly to her friend why [SPOILER] had to [SPOILER].
    What a good place to explain it very loudly. I only wish now I’d stood around in cinemas while people were queuing for “The Crying Game” back in the day so I could say “Wow, who’d ever have guessed that Dil had a penis?” over and over again…
    One time I’m glad I’m not a Harry Potter reader…

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