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**bertowud** · (This post was last modified: 08-10-2009 02:26 AM by bertowud.)

(07-10-2009 09:00 PM)Beatriz Wrote: Yeah! the last chapter what was that?
I think
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she was afraid of killing him, so she wrote the last chapter

I think

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(07-10-2009 08:42 PM)Tranquility Wrote: When I read it, I ignore the last chapter. The ending for me in when
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Harry is thinking about Kreature bringing him a sandwich.
A nice ending and it leaves an opening so the reader can imagine what happens next themselves.

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The 'all was well' part was just a bag full of cheese.

I put in spoiler tags just incase someone doesn't know what happens, highly unlikely but hey

I really like your ending. It's the type of ending that would really irritate my wife though.

endorwitch · (This post was last modified: 08-10-2009 01:16 PM by endorwitch.)

(08-10-2009 02:17 AM)bertowud Wrote: I think
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she had killed him and chickened out and rewrote the ending. Imagine Harry Potter married to the Weasly girl.

i WILL not imagine such an awful thing!
URGH...but then i am still addicted to Harry Potter fanfiction pairing 'the Weasley girl' with 'that Malfoy boy'. Big Grin

the epilogue of DOOM as its affectionately known should be ignored by all good and proper people! and Draco/Ginny fans! Heart

a Malfoy with a receding hairline? i ask you...is that plausible???? Huh

woman was on crack. Angry

**bertowud** · 08-10-2009, 11:12 PM

Since it was mentioned in the movies thread, I'll throw out, I really enjoyed the Hobbit. I can't say I ever got into the Lord Of the Rings though. They're good, but not nearly as much fun as the Hobbit.

HellsBells · 09-10-2009, 01:23 PM

Have to agree with you on that one, Bertowud !

**JHyde** · 02-11-2009, 09:55 AM

I love to read, which I know a lot of people say they do, but they just read the same 20 or so books over and over again.

Michael Chabon and William Faulkner are my favourite writers, but Will Self would have to be the most original, creative mind in literature at the moment. Uncomfortable sometimes, but terribly funny.

Toni Morrison for characterisation and Marilynne Robinson for prose. I recently read Housekeeping which is a few years older than I am and was really angry it had taken me so long to find her. And I find it inspirational that there was such a long period between her 1st and 2nd books.

Luke Davies is a wonderful writer with a great sense of foreboding and I'm anxious to see what he comes up with now that he's moving into film. I hope he doesn't stop writing poetry, though.

For satire, I still think Swift and Sterne have never been bettered.

Cate Kennedy also writes wonderful short stories and Geoffery Robertson was an early intellectual pin up in non-fiction.

I'm really enjoying "Mad, Bad and Sad" by Lisa Appagnesi at the moment.

Tomsdouble · 02-11-2009, 10:06 AM

A few of you mention a love of sci-fi and me too, especially the Culture novels of Iain M Banks. Very very good. Still not made much headway with the unofficial history of MI5 but getting there very slowly! Also reading a book called the Hot Zone, which, despite its occasional hack journo-style prose, is a very good - and chilling - account of the history of the ebola virus, a dose of which you absolutely do not want to get.

Also just bought John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, which I've read before. It's brilliant and the central character is like none you've ever met before....also by my bedside is Robert Fisk's massive history of the middle-east. Great read so far.

Margaret · 03-11-2009, 06:32 AM

Interesting to see that Harry Potter is popular and The Hobbitt. I enjoy murder mysteries:police dramas.

Currently I am reading The Complaints by Ian Rankin (author of the Rebus series).

My favourite writer is John Le Carre, which I guess somewhat 'dates' me as an older member of the forum. Le Carre is often criticised for his plots being 'too convuluted'; however, I think some of you might like the George Smiley novels.

Other writers whose writing I enjoy include: Val McDermid, Lynda La Plante, Stella Rimmington, Nicci French, Henning Mankell, Arnalder Indridson, Donna Leon to name a few.

**Silktie** · 03-11-2009, 11:57 AM

Ah, a fellow Le Carre fan! If I were allowed to invite any fictional character to dinner, there are two that would top my list, one of which is George Smiley.

The other is PD James' Commander Adam Dalgliesh.

What did you think of Le Carre's newer books - especially the last one, A Most Wanted Man?

Margaret · 03-11-2009, 12:47 PM

I agree with you about George Smiley. I saw in your earlier post you like Martin Cruz Smith's Detective Arkady, as I do. I also enjoy the Dalgleish novels by PD James.

As for Le Carre's later books: I found have found some a little disappointing: I am a great fan of George Smiley. That is probably why some of his later writing has not captured my heart as much as the Smiley novels. I liked The Constant Gardener.

Without wanting to be over critical, after all: "Those who can't, criticise" .... A most wanted man had many elements of Le Carre's writing that I enjoy: the arrival of a stranger about whose credentials we are unsure about, an idealistic lawyer determined to defend her client and the 'old school' banker. I enjoyed reading the book: but for me, the characters and plot were not as well crafted as in the earlier Smiley novels.

I noticed that Len Deighton's: Game, Set and Match and Hook, Line and Sinker have not been mentioned so far in the reading material for Spooks fans. That's another author whose work I have enjoyed in the past.

chaosdemon · 03-11-2009, 03:22 PM

I have to admit that I do like the Harry Potter books. I've still not managed to read all of them, but I will get there.

I also like Lord Of The Rings!!!!!!