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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2
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bookshelves: 300-399-pp, author-british, genre-juvenile-fantasy, format-script, subject-time-travel, read-in-2016, subject-boarding-school
Aug 23, 2016
bookshelves: 300-399-pp, author-british, genre-juvenile-fantasy, format-script, subject-time-travel, read-in-2016, subject-boarding-school
(B+) 79% | Good
Notes: All the charm of the originals, but too steeped in revisiting previous storylines to be much more than good nostalgia.
Notes: All the charm of the originals, but too steeped in revisiting previous storylines to be much more than good nostalgia.
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August 23, 2016
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August 23, 2016
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August 23, 2016
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300-399-pp
August 23, 2016
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author-british
August 23, 2016
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genre-juvenile-fantasy
August 23, 2016
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format-script
August 25, 2016
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August 27, 2016
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subject-time-travel
August 28, 2016
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Finished Reading
August 31, 2016
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read-in-2016
October 20, 2016
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subject-boarding-school
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Dec 17, 2018 05:43AM
I actually felt like they read the most popular fan fictions and meshed it all together. :D
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I feel bad to be honest about all the hate this gets. Yes, it is NOT a ‘Harry Potter book’ but it WAS made for the stage. I agree with you on the storyline though, it feels like they ran out of ideas so they just took everything from the previous books
It was great to visit the world of Harry Potter again....💕
MischaS_ wrote: "I actually felt like they read the most popular fan fictions and meshed it all together. :D"That could possibly be the case. Professional writers writing and reading fan fiction isn't new, that's how we got Fifty Shades of Grey, after all. This certainly has a fan-service feel to it. I never read any Harry Potter fan fiction myself, so I wouldn't know what the common stories are in that space. "Meshed together" does seem an appropriate descriptor for it since it felt to me akin to a greatest hits medley or a television clip show.
The Bookish Reader wrote: "I feel bad to be honest about all the hate this gets. Yes, it is NOT a ‘Harry Potter book’ but it WAS made for the stage. I agree with you on the storyline though, it feels like they ran out of ide..."I totally agree, this is a play and people are paying to see all the old, familiar things acted out in person, and time travel was a way to do that. JKR is very clear in her Pottermore books that time travel, as done here, isn't possible, and as such this story can't be considered canon. So technically speaking this is just authorized fan fiction, which is precisely how I regard it.
Rajeswari wrote: "It was great to visit the world of Harry Potter again....💕"My feeling exactly :)
All very true, but I did love the re-visit and would love to see it performed
My_Strange_Reading wrote: "All very true, but I did love the re-visit and would love to see it performed"I think this works a lot better as a live experience than it does as a literary narrative. People are less critical when there isn't text to dwell on and scrutinize. Not every play needs to be Shakespeare, and even Shakespeare's more fun performed than read and contemplated. I'm sure many people critical of this would have a blast seeing it performed in person.
Did you see it on stage?
Roman wrote: "Did you see it on stage?"Aside from a few YouTube clips, I haven't. I hear it's great, though.
