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This is where you stick random tidbits of information about yourself.
Age 23, living in sin in Twickenham with Cheesy
Likes
Movies
Books
Writing
Theatre
Hugs
Kittens
Chess
Scrabble (mostly beating Cheesy's butt)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Dislikes
Vegetables
Arguments
Cleaning
Trashy TV
Pretensions
Public Transport
Pets
Rabbits-Bambi, Fern, Sooty, Pippa-all deceased
Dog-Sammy-deceased :(
Fish-CatFlap-recently (and finally!) deceased
Cat-Tiggy-still scratching
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Technically Rachel
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Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Just to say – J K Rowling totally lived up to expectation. Order of the Phoenix carries on the tradition of the Harry Potter books, yet manages to take things in a new direction. The book is deliciously unfilmable, lacking clear plot points which were so obvious in the earlier books. This is a book of development, a sense of setting things up for the last two books. And finally a development for the character of Harry himself. The book pulses with anger throughout, and there are (whisper it) elements of politics, and no doubt a crack at the press and what arseholes they can be. I actually enjoyed this much more than Goblet of Fire. Though it lacked a clear adventure to be achieved, it also didn’t go overboard on surprise reveals at the end (I hated that whole stuff with Prof Moody not being real – it just pissed me off). Though this book holds its own surprises, there is nothing as far fetched as before. The death had less impact that I thought – probably because it was very late, and I was rushing through to finish before I went to sleep – I will probably feel it more in the next book (please let it be less than 3 years for that one!) And finally we get to see what Dumbledore is really capable of. Wooo. And it’s still fabulously funny.
I shan’t be blogging for the next few days, as I am off to Glastonbury tomorrow. Pray to the Rain Gods for me to keep me dry. Shall update when I return.
1:49 pm
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