I'd like to steal an image from my brother's page to show how I feel about the most recent Harry Potter book:

This action is which to some may say "Well I never! Those novels are some of children's literature's finest, you great bumbling booby." To which I respond: "Jesus Christ, what did you just call me?"

I found it to be the weakest of the series. The other books show off the world of Hogwarts, while this one reads like a dry informational pamphlet. The relationships are merely lukewarm and drag the pace of the storytelling down. Near the end of the book things take off, but the story doesn't really end. It just stops.

It's much better than your casual summer book, but it's rather muddy and slow-going in spots.

Plus check out the last page of the book:

The paper is 100% unrecycled. Whole forests were leveled, thousands of small furry animals left homeless, and vast virgin landscapes devastated, to make this book.

Okay, not really.


Thanks to my motherboard breaking, my computer alternates between being a machine that allows me to be productive and generally enjoy life, to being a smoke alarm simulator. Putting in all my memory results in the computer locking to a black screen and repeatedly beeping. So I'm forced to run on two sticks of RAM instead of the available three, which really steams my peas.

At some point I'll have to RMA the motherboard, which means I'll be without a motherboard for two weeks. This is unacceptable. I'm hoping we'll be able to work out some deal where they send me shiny new motherboard while I send them off the borked board, so it'll two days waiting instead of two weeks. I'll mope about it either way.


My brother did a better review than I of the Final Fantasy concert. Go read. I mean it, go read.