{"id":494,"date":"2007-04-07T11:24:37","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T11:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=494"},"modified":"2024-02-23T14:54:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:54:17","slug":"rowling_03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/04\/rowling_03\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowling, J.K.: (03) <cite>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban<\/cite> (audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><cite>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban<\/cite><\/strong> is certainly better than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/03\/rowling_01-02.php\">its predecessor<\/a> and may well be the best of the lot, though I&#8217;ll leave that assessment until I finish my re-listening\/re-read. Based on listening to the audiobook, I think there are a number of reasons why I liked it more. First and least objectively, there&#8217;s much less &#8220;woe is Harry.&#8221; Second and perhaps more useful, however, is that the plot fills out the structure much better. The combination of a school story structure and a mystery plot tends to leave the middle of the book very open, and here the Dementors and what they make Harry hear are a much better way of filling that space. Also, the denouement is quite lengthy, and so the various bits of mystery-solving and action don&#8217;t feel like an anti-climax. Third, the core story of this book is a lot meatier, more textured, and more interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Other notes: Ron really needs to work on anger management. Hermione is not actually Supergirl, despite the movie&#8217;s changes. Plot holes (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/rot-13\/\">ROT-13<\/a>): jul qvq gur gvzr gheare zbir gurz sebz gur ubfcvgny jvat gb gur ragenapr unyy? fubhyqa&#8217;g fancr, nf n grnpure, xabj gung urezvbar unq n gvzr gheare (rvgure bssvpvnyyl be guebhtu tbffvc)? jul jnfa&#8217;g untevq chavfurq sbe ohpxornx&#8217;f rfpncr, vs gur boivbhf rkcynangvba vf gung ur qvqa&#8217;g gvr ohpxornx cebcreyl? naq, abg ernyyl n cybg ubyr, ohg v abgvpr gung uneel jnf nobhg gb nfx untevq jul ur arire gbyq uvz nobhg oynpx naq gura jnf qvfgenpgrq ol ohpxornx&#8217;f cyvtug, orpnhfr gur nafjre jnf &#8220;gur nhgube qvqa&#8217;g jnag uvz gb xabj lrg.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(I am definitely not listening to the next two, but will re-read them sometime in the nearish future.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is certainly better than its predecessor and may well be the best of the lot, though I&#8217;ll leave that assessment until I finish my re-listening\/re-read. Based on listening to the audiobook, I think there are a number of reasons why I liked it more. First and least objectively, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/04\/rowling_03\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rowling, J.K.: (03) <cite>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban<\/cite> (audio)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,15,118],"tags":[367],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harry-potter","category-sf-and-fantasy","category-single-narrator-audio","tag-rowling-j-k"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2832,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/2832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}