Short Book Review: Harry Potter (all of them)
Spoiler follows… J.K. Rowling is not a good writer, but she is a good storyteller. She makes characters that we care about, a world we want to believe in, and a tale we want to see resolved. She also relies on ridiculously lengthy exposition, bends the plot around foolishly improbable coincidences, and skimps on evocative imagery, sometimes requiring us to reread entire paragraphs so that we can just follow what the hell is going on. At least her being a mediocre writer means that we get the satisfying epilogue that is typically denied to sophisticated readers. I’ll probably read the whole thing to my own (hypothetical) kids some day, but maybe I’ll edit a bit as I go.
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