Hundred Hand

Well I just finished up the Harry Potter books last night, and it was an extremely good series. I felt like I went through them quickly so I looked at my online order history to see when I got the first book; it was mid-January. Now, 3 months later I’ve read through 7 books, and about 4000 pages. The last book especially I couldn’t put down. I had about 100 pages left in the final book when it became my bedtime, but I stayed up another couple hours to finish, there was just so much good stuff going on.

Now, having seen all of the movies made so far, and having read all the books, I’m very interested to see how they adapt the final book to movie form. You see, the first 2-3 movies held very close to the books. But after that, the books got about twice as long, while the movies realistically couldn’t push very much past that 3 hour mark and had to condense a lot of what was going on. Now when everything comes full circle in the final book, I’m not sure how they are going to explain all the stuff they had left out. I’m glad that they are breaking up the final book into 2 movies, it seems like they’ll be able to do them justice in that way, and perhaps they should have started that trend even earlier.

So now that I have finished those books, I need something new to read. There’s nothing out there that I’m really excited about. Right now I’m into philosophy, fiction, educational and science stuff. Anyone have any ideas?