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Rowling Preps for Last POTTER

By: News Editor
 Date: Thursday, December 29, 2005
Source: JKRowling.com

J.K. Rowling recently posted on her official website she is preparing to write the final book in the HARRY POTTER series.

She states, "2006 will be the year when I write the final book in the HARRY POTTER series. I contemplate the task with mingled feelings of excitement and dread, because I can't wait to get started, to tell the final part of the story and, at last, to answer all the questions (will I ever answer all of the questions? Let's aim for most of the questions); and yet it will all be over at last and I can't quite imagine life without Harry.

Rowling goes on to note, "I have been fine-tuning the fine-tuned plan of seven during the past few weeks so that I can really set to work in January. Reading through the plan is like contemplating the map of an unknown country in which I will soon find myself. Sometimes, even at this stage, you can see trouble looming; nearly all of the six published books have had Chapters of Doom."

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• Dec 29, 2005, 07:32am •
Is this book going to be 1,000 pages long?! I've loved every one of the movies, but have yet to read a single book in the series. Anyone out there read them? Are they that good? I'm reading Kostova's "The Historian" right now and am looking for my next read.

lracors • Dec 29, 2005, 08:11am •
I'm... man... the movies have been so freaking great... I've read all the books and they are absolutely phenominal. I think my favorites are "The Prisoner of Azkaban" and "The Half-Blood Prince"

Reading this is such a double edged sword because I want to see the film and be surprised, but at the same time I want to read the book and see how she ends things.

With Stephen King's Dark Tower it's no contest, you read the books because there is no movie in sight. With this I'm so torn because there is a movie in sight after the book has been completed.

aaaarrrrggghhh..

My ratings of the books of Harry Potter and:

The Sorcerer's Stone 3*'s
The Chamber of Secrets 3*'s
The Prisoner of Azkaban 4*'s
The Goblet of Fire 3 *'s
The Order of the Phoenix 3 *'s
The Half-Blood Prince 3 1/2 *'s

...anyway... if you haven't read them do so they are just wonderful.

• Dec 29, 2005, 09:53am •
Thanks Iracors; my 12-year-old nephew has read all of the books and says they're great. I just wanted to make sure they weren't written just for kids. If I start reading them next month I might have all six read before the last book is released...those are some looooong books!

• Dec 29, 2005, 10:14am •
Wessmith, you'll be surprised just how fast and compelling a read these books are. People have been known to finish them in 1 or 2 days.
My own ratings:
Sorceror's Stone: **1/2(out of five)
Chamber of Secrets: ***
Goblet of Fire: ****
Order of the Phoenix: *****
Half-Blood Prince: ***1/2

• Dec 29, 2005, 11:08am •
Agreed with all the above. The books are well written, not just for kids at all. They're also very engrossing - I am quite the slow reader and was able to finish Goblet of Fire in two weeks. I just couldn't put it down.

Also, I don't think having seen the films will spoil it for you. While the filmakers have done quite a good job of being faithful to the books, there are also plenty of details missed by the films to keep you interested.

Enjoy!

• Dec 29, 2005, 11:33am •
Who here really believes Harry Potter, or the world of Harry Potter, will go away after the last book and the last movie? Anyone? Could I see a show of hands? Ah, I see that hand in the back.

• Dec 29, 2005, 11:35am •
Oh, and my favorite HP story was "Harry Potter and the Hot Blood Snoggers". Just awesome.

• Dec 29, 2005, 01:04pm •
I sat there in the theater watching this past Harry Potter movie and at one point, I looked over at the audience and saw everyone on the edge of their seat in sheer awe (scene of boat coming out of water). I suddenly realized that every generation has its obsession. You have the Star Wars fans, Star Trek fans, LOTR fans, and now the Harry Potter fans. And I realized, this isn't my generation. I am an old-school Star Wars fan and am just not adapting to some of these new fads. The Harry Potter movies are okay, but just don't do it for me. Maybe one day when I have kids, it can be their fad. Or maybe Narnia or something else will be their fads.

It is nice to hear Rowling is finding closure with the series. It's always nice to finish something up, sit back, and say "wow!" I commend her for her brilliant effort.

• Dec 29, 2005, 02:11pm •
It will be both good and sad when book seven comes out. But perhaps phillipej has the right idea. Many authors are writing in each others "universes" right now and it has been done in the past. Was it Aspirin that started it with his "Thieves World"? Anyway I can see this happening with Harry and Co., there are set guidlines that you must follow; no non-canon or approved relationships, same with deaths or births. This would be a great way to keep things alive in the Potterverse and allow other authors to come and play.


• Dec 29, 2005, 04:16pm •
I've read the book and found them much better than the movie. Visualy the movie are good, but when I've gone to see the third movie, many people in the cinema was actually quite disturb by the lack of similitude with the book... I didn't see the fourth because of that, I'll wait for it in video (or maybe when it will go on public television)...

I must say that I doubt that there will be no more Potter in the future. Even rowling as said that perhaps she would be open to do something later...

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