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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Posted By: Sam, on host 209.187.117.100
Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 08:17:16

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is finally finished and has a firm release date from the publisher of June 21. It's 768 pages long -- 255,000 words, compared with the 191,000 words of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

It's interesting to note how ravenous the publisher and the public are for the next book; usually there is a period of a year between when an author completes a book and when it first hits shelves.

I have no opinion yet of the increasing length of these books. I haven't read book four yet, because I was waiting for five to come out. I'm interested in seeing where Rowlings goes with the series, because part of what makes the first three books so good is how tightly plotted they are. But if this trend continues the seventh book could easily exceed a thousand pages. The challenge of filming these longer books is another matter to consider. The film version of book three is scheduled for release in summer 2004; after that, we'll see just how they manage to transfer the mammoth book four to the screen and still have it be reasonably coherent. To maintain the ratio of screen time to book pages, the adaptation of book four would have to be something like five or six hours in duration.

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