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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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16 July 2005 - 10:15 pm
Some brief comments on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince follow. No plot details are revealed, but those wanting to read the book with a clean slate should not go any further.
The new Harry Potter book was very good, but not the best we've seen in the series. It spent a bit too much time explaining things that had happened in previous books and setting the stage for the final volume. At least the angry, sullen Harry of book five didn't appear in this volume. But this book deals less with the minutia of life at Hogwarts than previous volumes, and I think that it lost some of it's charm because of that. Interesting new characters, a hallmark of the previous stories, were also missing. But perhaps the wizarding world is full up for now. In the end, the story was a good transition and it will be popular amongst the die-hard fans, but it doesn't stand as well as the other books on its own. Although, having said that, I can't wait to see what's coming in the last book, so it did its job admirably well.
Posted by on 16 July 2005 at 10:09 PM
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