Taking out the Potter Trash
Robert McCrum from the Guardian (a UK paper) trashes the Harry Potter books, saying, "...try reading her aloud to an eight-year-old and you quickly discover that her prose is deadly - automatic writing, over-literal description and lazy dialogue. Perhaps The Half-Blood Prince will prove me wrong, but the series so far does not hold out much hope."
Rather interesting is the Amazon review from HP 4 by Mr. McCrum: "[T]his is storytelling of a high order indeed. It draws the reader in with a riddle and a letter. It proceeds through a series of trials to a great confrontation. And it concludes with a death and a climactic resolution. E.M. Forster famously observed that, 'Yes - oh dear, yes - the novel tells a story'. HP IV is the apotheosis of 'story.'"
(For those unknowing of the word apotheosis, it means "exaltation to divine rank or stature.")
Hmmm, storytelling of a high order or automatic writing, Mayor McCrum, tell us, which is it?
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Rather interesting is the Amazon review from HP 4 by Mr. McCrum: "[T]his is storytelling of a high order indeed. It draws the reader in with a riddle and a letter. It proceeds through a series of trials to a great confrontation. And it concludes with a death and a climactic resolution. E.M. Forster famously observed that, 'Yes - oh dear, yes - the novel tells a story'. HP IV is the apotheosis of 'story.'"
(For those unknowing of the word apotheosis, it means "exaltation to divine rank or stature.")
Hmmm, storytelling of a high order or automatic writing, Mayor McCrum, tell us, which is it?
This message is a reminder that once words make it on the Internet, they are there in perpetuity, the word 'perpetuity' in this case meaning, 'long enough to come back and bite you'
posted by Kathleen at 9:27 AM
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