Is anyone else a little depressed about Harry Potter Book 7?

[XemaSab]

I've gotten so much joy from the speculation about and re-examination of the first 6 books, I have to say I'm in a way not really that eager to see book 7.

It's the end of an era. :cry:

[CatholicEdHead]

1. Who knows what Rowling has up her sleve next

I can't expect she is done writing. I look forward to post-Harry Potter and new series (maybe related, maybe not).

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

2. I am

I will have to try very hard to refrain from reading the last page first (a nasty habit to which I plead guilty). I did manage to read one book without doing that, but it took a lot of effort. I'll just keep rereading them - I think I've read them all at least three times.

"All good things must come to an end." SIGH.

[VenusRising]

3. Yes, I feel the same way.

I almost don't want to run out and get it because I'll read it so fast and then it will be over.

[RevolutionaryActs]

4. I'm sad because I read the first two books when I was12

and they were what really got me into reading. Before that I had read plenty of books, but I hadn't really enjoyed until I read those two.


And now I'm 21 and it's all coming to an end. :(

[Richard Steele]

8. Well now I'm sad because I'M REALLY FUCKING OLD!!!!!

TWELVE??? WTF??? *feebly waves cane in RevActs' general direction*

[unpossibles]

14. YEAH! Get off our lawn, you damn whippersnapper!

just kidding.

now where'd I put my cane....?

[WindRavenX]

5. the books started coming out when I was in MIDDLE SCHOOL

So it's kinda weird that it's ending when I'm an adult now, fresh out of college.

[uppityperson]

6. Another burning question, do I look at the last chapter first or read beginning to end?

[XemaSab]

7. Beginning to end

natch. :D

[yellowdogintexas]

9. oh my yes. However 'tis better to end a series than let it

plow on forever in a pointless fashion seemingly lost in twisting winding passages which all look the same

(Robert Jordan could have learned a few things from Harry Potter)

I am going to hate like hell when George RR Martin finishes his series too but that is the way it is.

[XemaSab]

10. No, no, I mean obviously it's better to end it

But future readers will not know the joy of rereading the books 5 times looking for clues as to where she will take us next...

[jgraz]

11. Not in the least

I started reading HP two months after the first book was published in Britain, and I've been a rabid fan ever since. I'm overjoyed that JKR has actually managed to pull this off, completing her vision/obsession and doing it at such a consistently high level.

I may feel different once I turn that last page, but right now I can't wait to have the entire saga complete in my own head.

[Katina]

12. I can't wait to read it

and I'm looking forward to see what Rowlings can come up with next.

[deepthought42]

13. More like dreading working that night...

at Borders... :scared: But I can understand...the last book in my favorite series ever comes out this fall... :cry:

:hug:

[XemaSab]

15. Which series is that?

:shrug:

[deepthought42]

17. Sword of Truth...

not that I don't have plenty of other books to read (you might say too many, lol), but... of course nothing else can compare, IMO.

[Orsino]

16. The speculation has given me no particular joy.

I just want to read the damned book.

I'm not depressed at all--but check back in a few weeks!

[Coventina]

18. I'm sad, yet very happy to have been along for the ride.

I got into Sherlock Holmes as a kid, and I would read about how the fans would line up for hours for the next issue of "The Strand" when a new chapter of "Hound of the Baskervilles" was released. I always felt kind of envious of that experience.

Now I've had it. Years from now, maybe people will hear about the wild anticipation generated by each of the HP releases, and they'll wonder what it was like.

:-)

[tigereye]

19. yeah these characters have engaged many people -

and it's always hard to see the end of a series. And this series has garnered more attention than many I can think of... That's how I feel when several of my favorite mystery writers killed off their protagonists - or simply quit writing for one reason or another...


however, there are some writers who should end a series, and don't - ;)