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06. Dez 2007
Wonderful Book
1 von 1 finden das hilfreich I had held off on reading any of the Harry Potter novels for a long time, assuming both, in my arrogance, that they were much too popular to be of any quality, and that they were written for small children, and therefore held no value to a discerning, literate (read: snobbish) adult.
I was wrong. The first novel is childish inasmuch as it doesn't have sex in it and it doesn't use adult language. There's some violence, which increases in later novels, but it's mostly G-rated. I can't believe I waited until 2007 to read these books.
The novel is never condescending--Rowling never talks down to the reader. The story is funny and extremely imaginative, and you really feel sorry for poor Harry Potter and what he must put up with, and consequently you feel joy for him when he goes to Hogwarts, escaping his terrible life on Privet Drive. Although, employing her constant use of verisimilitude, Rowling returns Harry to Privet Drive at the end of the novel, proving that even with magic, life isn't perfect.
I really enjoyed the way Rowling tied everything up at the end of the novel; it was written like a very good mystery in that respect. Although it may seem somewhat amateurish to have an enemy explain everything to Potter right before attempting to kill him (a disreputable movie cliche), that didn't make much difference for me--I was more interested in how cleverly the story had been written.
It's really funny to think that people opposed this book for its supposed link to the "dark arts." What year is this? 1999, when this was published. Are we still burning witches? Rowling remarks on witch-burnings in a later book, humorously mentioning that when villagers caught a real witch (as opposed to a "Muggle" mistaken for a witch), the witch would use magic to protect herself from the flames, and that the burning would give her a tickling sensation as she pretended to burn to death in agony.
Rowling has very realistic characters, and she captures foibles and endearing insecurities excellently. It's all believable--you feel angry with Harry and happy with Harry.
I honestly cannot think of anything wrong with these books--even the length of the book is just right. And Rowling's books become a LOT longer later on, which just adds to the pleasure of reading them because the story lasts longer. They do not feel overlong. The Order of the Phoenix, for example, is 870 pages long (in hardcover form). That's about three times as long as the first novel!
Anyway, if you're like me and haven't read any of these books because of some foolish prejudice, I highly recommend you at least read the first one and let a little magic into your life.
06. Sep 2009
A Good Game
This is a pretty good game--the cutscenes are hilarious. The gameplay itself is somewhat generic--general platforming. Not bad, though. The comments the characters make as you play are funny.
The thing that made me HATE this game is this: the save system. I spent about seven hours playing this game. The game has an autosave function, so apparently you don't have to worry about saving your state.
As I said, I spent over seven hours playing the game and I decided to give it a rest for the night. The next time I started up my 360, the game gave me the option to start a new game. Nothing else.
The last time I played the game, I was in China, with Homer and Lisa. Before I quit the game, I made sure that the game was finished saving before I powered down. The saving screen ended, and I shut the console off.
If you research this, you'll see that there's more than one complaint about this save system.
It's a good game, but I can't bring myself to play it again because of the absolutely awful save system.
06. Dez 2007
It's all right
First I read Tales from the Empire. Then I read Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina. Then I read Tales from Jabba's Palace.
My evaluation? Jabba's Palace is an okay book, but I liked Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina more.
The stories are all interconnected, with much storyline repeated from the perspectives of different characters. This is accomplished with a monotonous retelling of previously-explained story, exactly as it was originally explained.
After reading these three short-story collections, I started feeling a sense of...well, I had a bad feeling. In the introductory story, the back story is given for the Rancor's keeper. I'm no Star Wars purist, but the idea of authors writing stories about these inconsequential characters just seems...pointless. I'm not saying that stories should be written only about the popular characters, like Han Solo, for example, but that the movie is finished--why try to delve into characters that really aren't that interesting? They're in the periphery for a reason: they're not that interesting.
The stories seemed a pale imitation of the movies, and often the authors would insert certain facts that would alter the Star Wars canon, so as to give their story more weight. This was almost insulting to read, somehow. Usually I prefer reading the book to watching the movie, but these collections intruded on what I knew about the movie, and I preferred not to have these authors tell me their story about what led to a certain character's demise, or whatever. Mainly because the stories weren't very entertaining, and I preferred to keep MY beliefs about how certain characters ended up dying in the fray. Actually, many of the characters were too boring for me to even think about them beyond their bizarre physical appearances.
A good example of the authors altering the canon is in Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina. Apparently, Luke Skywalker got the idea to tangle the legs of the AT-AT from a Stormtrooper who joined the Rebels. Something about this just seemed lame to me. Is tripping the assault vehicles with the tall, ungainly legs really such a hard thing to figure out? Also, in Tales from Jabba's Palace, the cook apparently feeds Han Solo to help him get his strength up. This endears the character to the readership, I suppose, but again, it seems awfully contrived to me.
I don't know if Kevin Anderson, the editor, watered down the stories, but they all have a very generic feeling to them. It's as if the authors watched the movies and then tried to copy the behaviors of the protagonists exactly, and the antagonists exactly. The attempts at humor are very rarely effective, and it seems as though every story eventually reaches a point where a ship "makes the jump to hyperspace."
I hated Tales from the Empire, because it was downright boring. But the two following collections were significantly better. I have Tales of the Bounty Hunters and Tales from the New Republic, but I doubt that I'll read them. Perhaps I'm simply not a fan of fan-fiction.
Oh, and the stories I hated the most (actually, I was mostly neutral to many of the stories, so the ONLY stories I hated, I should say) concerned the Anzati "snot vampire." The style did NOT fit in with any of the other stories, and that isn't to say that it was a welcome deviation from the generic style of the other stories. I found it embarrassing. This is Star Wars, for crying out loud. She (Jennifer Robeson)wrote in a way that was too poetic and pretentious.