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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Harry Potter, #8)
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Now this was a real shame. It read like some juvenile fan fiction. The characters were utterly lifeless. Perhaps seeing this would be better. The stage actor’s performances would carry the emotion and drama the dialogue completely failed to convey.
The stage directions were also minimalistic. I mean we have a basic location set for us, but that’s about all. There’s no real expression or sense of urgency. All in all, it’s just a little flat. The plot is feasible, even if it felt a little forced, but the characters were just poor. The new ones aren’t so bad, but the old characters, Harry, Ron and Hermione, were barely themselves. They just had no depth to them; they’re like reflections of their surface level. Ron felt like a piece of furniture that seemed to enjoy inserting several badly times jokes. Hermione seemed cold. And Harry, Harry simply isn’t Harry.
How can he identify himself as a bad farther? How can he believe that he had no farther figure in his own life? He had many. He had inspiration from many great men. They taught him a great deal about life and himself in the process. So why would a man who has defeated the face of evil be so daunted by giving his son some simple advice? It doesn’t add up. Harry Potter would make an excellent farther.
This didn’t even feel like the same world.
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The stage directions were also minimalistic. I mean we have a basic location set for us, but that’s about all. There’s no real expression or sense of urgency. All in all, it’s just a little flat. The plot is feasible, even if it felt a little forced, but the characters were just poor. The new ones aren’t so bad, but the old characters, Harry, Ron and Hermione, were barely themselves. They just had no depth to them; they’re like reflections of their surface level. Ron felt like a piece of furniture that seemed to enjoy inserting several badly times jokes. Hermione seemed cold. And Harry, Harry simply isn’t Harry.
How can he identify himself as a bad farther? How can he believe that he had no farther figure in his own life? He had many. He had inspiration from many great men. They taught him a great deal about life and himself in the process. So why would a man who has defeated the face of evil be so daunted by giving his son some simple advice? It doesn’t add up. Harry Potter would make an excellent farther.
This didn’t even feel like the same world.
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Reading Progress
February 12, 2016
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February 12, 2016
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February 12, 2016
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children-of-all-ages
February 12, 2016
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fantasy
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August 6, 2016
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August 6, 2016
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![Anne](https://images.gr-assets.com/users/1564193777p1/23304719.jpg)
I'm so looking forward to reading about the Potter and Weasely kids!!!! They better not make this solely about Albus Severus Potter :[
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I only found out about it yeasterday. I don't check that website. Perhaps I should from time to time. It just sounds like an ordinary play, so like Shakespeare and unlike Shakespeare. The art of Shakespeare is in the language, the spoken word, there are very few stage directions because it was meant to be seen not read. This, however, I should image, will be full of them to make it clear what's going on. And hopefully it will have a nice introduction to lay down some of the events that has led tot he action within the play.
I'm quite excited! :)
Also- I need to check out some of those short works on her website!
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Me too. It really isn't here at all. Where did the magic go? :(
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I just had to unlike your review so I could like it again. Everything I felt is right there in your review. The characters! Harry and Ron were a joke. Like complete shadows of what I knew their characters to be. It's not even disappointment I feel, what I feel has no name. Maybe the writer felt like he was giving Harry's background more depth and closure but it completely ruined the harmony of the previous HP stories. I don't even want to talk about Delphi's character. There's nothing there for me. I like to think it would've worked out better if J.K had written the script herself, but who knows maybe the world has been wrung out enough and is dry of stories - or at rather anymore books that pursue the Voldemort the interminable villain narrative.
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You're definitely right!
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Agreed. It seems so basic. And the Silmarillion is one big glorious headache. See if you can remember what happened at the start by the time you reach the end ;)
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Harry potter doesn't. This isn't some realist drag of a story. This is the home of Hogwarts. More is expected.
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Such a shame isn't it?
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Thanks :)
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It's just so, so, basic. It feels like it has been written by a creative writing student. I can't even look at this as part of the story. It's best forgotten about.
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I gave 5 stars because I could not stop reading the book and I really really loved it
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That being said, Harry Potter will always have a place in my heart and just to be back into the wizarding world, even for a play, made me feel things.
I can understand why people dislike it, I just can't rate it any lower. It's Potter. ish.
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"It's Potter. ish" - says it all really! ;)
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Haha. yes.
I have a full review here: https://sherlockianbooklover.wordpres...
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It was such a shame! :'(
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I gave 5 stars because I could not stop reading the book and I really really loved it"
of yeah? Who's the worst then?
Just don't get why ppl got excited about it. It's not even written BY Rowling. And come on, this is probably the worst HP spin-off we ever had. It's not because a franchise releases a new product that it's going to be good
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Written by Fred Weasly
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What do you mean? It IS fanfiction.
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My hopes weren't high when I heard about this "book" but I'm mad that I paid more than $20 for this trash. I keep it now only for collectibility.
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That said, that hardly makes up for the issues with this one. Harry as a bad father just isn't believable. All of his development of understanding how all of us have good and bad inside of us seems to be erased the moment his son is different from him? I don't buy it. I also did not buy the interpretations of Cedric Diggory's alternative storylines, which I felt was another example of ignoring who her characters were.
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