uggghhhh. I am not surprised but I am still disappointed. Harry never really did have his shit together as a kid (never did his homework!) -- I always wondered if it was due to a lack of healthy relationships with adults, which could still contribute to him not being a good adult but BLEH.
It IS disappointing, than you. However, you never know. And I'm enough of a completionist that I want the 8th book even if I think it's shit. Jaime may want to read it.
Further, I am pleased that I'm mature enough to identify shitty adulting, so....
There's a whole long topic thread about the way our developing filters affect our media consumption in general. I started to get into this stuff about 15 years ago when I took Henry Jenkins' class at MIT and there was a lot of talk about high vs pop art/culture. But peel back that a layer and you find an incredible morass of class and race assumptions underlying the whole thing (plus age and gender, at a minimum).
People who go around blithely stating "well, I just like what I like" annoy me in part because that means there's this giant bucket of unexamined assumptions just waiting to get tripped over.
Anyway, not to derail your LJ with this stuff, just saying "I hear ya."
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No way I'm reading that, either.
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By 40, ya need to have done the work, or at least making a good faith effort, you know?!
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Further, I am pleased that I'm mature enough to identify shitty adulting, so....
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People who go around blithely stating "well, I just like what I like" annoy me in part because that means there's this giant bucket of unexamined assumptions just waiting to get tripped over.
Anyway, not to derail your LJ with this stuff, just saying "I hear ya."
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