Alas !!! Hype Prevails

**SPOILER AHEAD , DON"T BLAME ME LATER !!**

And So it has ended FINALLY.I couldn't think of posting this review without letting out the plot details so anyone who is interested in reading book 7 should stop reading this review right now.

The Book started off at a very high pace with the 'dark lord" and his humble servants beating up people in order to find out the location of a certain boy named harry potter. :D and then i thought everything was happening too fast , things strated changing very fast and people attacking from here and there.

Then for afterwards for a long period of time all the things involved around the troubleseeking trio, and in that period i particularly didn't like certain repetation of same pharse's over and over For Ex : Hermione telling harry to close the link between his mind and voldy's. I suppose that line was repeated almost 3 times. Although i liked the characters of ron , herminone themselves , i thought the friendship shown between those 3 was good.

But as the plot started to unfold things started falling into place as if the gods themselves have shown them the way , there were too many coincidences and cliches.And then she introduced the plot of deathy hallows and a stupid fairy tale to go along with it.What i don't understand about this is just one thing : WHY ? IMHO i thought the deathly hallows didn't serve any purpose and just helped to fill in some more pages.

Halfway through i started thinking maybe , just maybe this book is going towards a different ending( although my friends had already told me that they were disappointed) but then the Chapters of Prince's tale and King Cross dashed all my hopes. How could she just take the easiest way out, cmon after all this hype about killing people and after so many , all she could find was THIS ending.Especially in king's cross chapter she bought back albus to give all the answers and Prince's tale snape got himself freed of all his guilt and became the good guy , i mean albus telling snape to kill himself could have been prediceted even by a num-skull who has read the previous book.

And the way voldermort , THE greatest dark wizard of all time, the DARK LORD himself blah blah got killed was simply "mindblowing"

IMHO all the books that preceeded Goblet of fire are just as a result of hype created around it and a marketting gimick.I really don't think order of phoneix needed to be 700 odd pages long , she filled in all the fillers she could find just so the book got longer and more importantly costlier.And after contemplating some more into this i think she could as well as written Book 7 after book no. 4 or 3 itself. All's well that ends. !!


PS: Harry potter is not real, i just hope i don't get beaten up by my fellow "loyal" potter fans.

Notes From Underground

I finished reading this book just few days ago.I found it very thoughtful read.This book consists of two parts.

In the first part::UNDERGROUND ;we come across this sick , spiteful unnamed patrogonist's describes his life and how he came to be in the "underground".In this part he describes his thoughts and feelings and also how he is superior to others.It consists of mainly neagtive and pessimistic feelings which make you think about yourself.

In the second part::ON OCCASION OF WET SNOW; we come across a day or two in his life and in dostoveskian style a "incident" occurs which affects the ongoing routine.

An interesting thing about this book is that he himself tries to question his thoughts or actions just before we ourselves try to question them in our minds and this book starts with 'I' and ends with 'WE' making the unknown reader invovled in his notes.

I would recommend reading Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck along with this book.

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

Quoted by new york times as " the best book on the dope-decade"

This book is just brilliant.The basic premise of the book is about ramblings of a jouranlist Mr.Duke and his attorney Dr.Gonzo who are on their way to Las Vegas to find the "American Dream" while their car if full of all sorts of drugs to various other abusive elements and their head is full of acid n ether.

The movie is great too with depp as duke and del toro as gonzo. I would recommend watching the movie after reading this book as it would make more sense and seems hell lot more funny.

Breakfast of Champions By Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

This is a one of the strangest book i have read so far.Totally outrageous , funny and chaotic.

The basic premise of the book is about a Car-dealer Dwanye Hoover who is on the verge of insanity and a sci-fiction writer Kilgore trout who writes all kinds of bizzre books.

Dwyane reads one of his book and becomes a homicidal maniac.

But this is just the very very basic plot, the write Vonnegut is a genius in between all this he puts forward his views about various issues in US ranging from viet nam to rape to Tv etc etc.
Gives details about a characters past to the size of his pennis.

As said at the back of the book :
"He creates a magic that makes poronography seem like plumbing,violence like lovemaking,guilt like child's play.He wheels out all the complaints about America and makes then seem fresh,funny.outrageous,hateful and loveable,all at the same time.He weaves nearly a dozen vonnegut stories into one plot"

Few quotes from this book ::
"Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease."

"There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead. It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done

Now looking for his most popular work - Slaughterhouse Five.