(Ha…you see how clever I am? A break in my earlier movie series was an “intermission” and a break in my music series is an “interlude?” Please bask in my glow.)
For those of you still with me, that was sarcasm above.
My cousin Chris has once again given me fodder for posting. He drew to my attention today an article (more of an essay, or even a well-worded blog post of its own accord) by author Orson Scott Card (who occupies some room on my “Soon to Read” list, and in a higher place now than he was before I read the essay). As you can tell, I found this article extremely interesting as well as insightful; I appreciated it greatly. However, I’ll warn you now–as does Card–that if you haven’t read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows–and desire to–then you might be well off staying away from the article until such a time as you have completed said tome.
For those of you have finished it (or who don’t care about the series), you may proceed without fear. In this article, Card begins by merely singing the praises of Rowling and the Potter series, but soon begins to expound on exactly why the books are so good and why enjoying them is a good thing beyond mere entertainment. It is both a dissection of the last novel and a dissertation on the state of modern literature and the minds that digest it.
Please enjoy the article here; hopefully it will spark some lively commentary that we can all enjoy!
Glad you found it interesting, I really love Orson Scott Card, I think he’s one of the greatest living authors in a lot of ways and his take on other literature is always insightful.
Having finally finished Deathly Hallows this weekend, I dug back in the archives for this post and read the article. I then found myself reading a ton of other articles by Card at the same time. It probably helps that Ender’s Game is one of my favorite Sci-Fi pieces of literature.
Anyway, I would agree with Chris; Card is an excellent author and I found his commentary on Hallows and on Rowling herself to be insightful and enjoyable.