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| Topic Started: Nov 8 2007, 11:32 PM (4,503 Views) | |
| Nero | Sep 12 2008, 11:58 PM Post #196 |
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True. |
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| klevy- | Mar 4 2009, 02:23 AM Post #197 |
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I hated how the ending made me feel. But, I don't think the ending could have been any better. In fact, in the end I kind of liked that the ending wasn't a generic "everyone lives happily ever after" one. It was very realistic (as far as a world filled with magicians and spirits go). Definitely pulled the heartstrings. When I look back at it now, no other ending would've been as satisfactory. F for me. |
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| zanotam | Mar 22 2009, 08:05 AM Post #198 |
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 While I hardly liked it (now as I just finished or any other time before) it did have a certain satisfaction. The only problem is that an ending like that means that there is no major impetus to continue the series, a major problem imo. |
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| nathanielandbartimaeus | Mar 24 2009, 12:05 PM Post #199 |
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Welcome klevy & zanotam. Do post regularly.
Personally, I think that's why the author wrote it that way. So that no one would want to continue the series. Edited by nathanielandbartimaeus, Mar 24 2009, 12:05 PM.
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| Honorius | Apr 5 2009, 06:46 PM Post #200 |
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The good thing about the ending is that it provided a great sense of closure. The bad thing about the ending is that it provided a great sense of closure. E. g. it was an awesome ending, but NO MORE BARTIMAEUS!!! 
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| SevenPentacles | Nov 12 2009, 05:32 AM Post #201 |
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*cough* prequel *cough* |
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| FuzzyLobster | Nov 14 2009, 09:17 PM Post #202 |
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The ending was amazing. 'Nuff said. |
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| Chiz | Dec 15 2009, 08:07 AM Post #203 |
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lol thats prolly how he felt before the prequel was announced I picked that Nat didn't deserve it and that it was satisfiying- |
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| cold_snow | Mar 29 2010, 11:40 AM Post #204 |
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F for me. I loved the ending I was kind of sad that Nathaniel Died but I found him really unpleasent after the first book. But saying that he is still one of my favourite characters. |
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| nathanielandbartimaeus | Mar 29 2010, 03:05 PM Post #205 |
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Nathaniel is my second favourite character. And you can't blame him much for being unpleasant; at an impressionable age, his master taught him that a bad magician is an incompetent one. Not an evil one. |
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| periwinkle | May 29 2010, 10:14 PM Post #206 |
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Nat falls in the category if the charismatic and calculating villain. It's a pretty standard villain in a lot of books, but he (and rarely she) is always a grown up character. I think it's awesome how we get to see how this type of man evolves out of a more or less normal, albeit very intelligent kid. The general feeling of Nat being unpleasant means that JS is consequent about writing the books from the PoV of the villains and not of the heroes. Also, I know only one other book in which this type of character is the main character. Alright, Bart is a main character too, but his type of character (the malevolent and witty but slightly pathetic character) I've found more often. (I've been hunting books with villainous and malevolent main characters for pretty much all my life - are at least since I've been able to read books ;p) |
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