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Writer's Block: Birthday Shout-out
Jul. 31st, 2009 11:25 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
For me, it's Order of the Phoenix. I got into Potter after the fourth book had been released, so the fifth was the first one I ever had to wait for. All that theorising and the questions (would we find out what the gleam in Dumbledore's eye was from the fourth book, just who would be the big death, etc), it was all new and exciting. Getting my hands on the book for the first time was fulfilling in a way I hadn't experienced before for any type of entertainment. I sat myself down in the comfiest chair in the house and lost myself in the pages. At one stage I forced myself to have an hour break to try and draw it out but I only lasted half the time. I finished the book in eight hours. Not once in my life had I sat down and read a book cover to cover and I've always been a reader. OOtP capurted my heart the way no other book ever had.
By far, it's not the most satisfying plot-wise, like Goblet of Fire, or the most satisfying in terms of answers given (Deathly Hallows, obviously). Rather, it's the type of satisfaction and completion within yourself that comes from having found something to love. New love. First love.
True love.
For me, it's Order of the Phoenix. I got into Potter after the fourth book had been released, so the fifth was the first one I ever had to wait for. All that theorising and the questions (would we find out what the gleam in Dumbledore's eye was from the fourth book, just who would be the big death, etc), it was all new and exciting. Getting my hands on the book for the first time was fulfilling in a way I hadn't experienced before for any type of entertainment. I sat myself down in the comfiest chair in the house and lost myself in the pages. At one stage I forced myself to have an hour break to try and draw it out but I only lasted half the time. I finished the book in eight hours. Not once in my life had I sat down and read a book cover to cover and I've always been a reader. OOtP capurted my heart the way no other book ever had.
By far, it's not the most satisfying plot-wise, like Goblet of Fire, or the most satisfying in terms of answers given (Deathly Hallows, obviously). Rather, it's the type of satisfaction and completion within yourself that comes from having found something to love. New love. First love.
True love.
