Orson Scott Card has weighed in with his review of Deathly Hallows over at his official website. This comes under his category of "Uncle Orson Reviews Everything."
I was happy to see how much he loves it, though not surprised. There are no new, deep insights into the work itself, but it's a review worth reading because he makes interesting speculations on where Rowling's career might go from here (speculations I think only another popular and published writer can make) and also takes on the literary elitists at places like the New York Times, whom he thinks (and I agree) have really missed the boat on Rowling's literary achievement here.
One observation he made, which just hadn't hit me in a long time, is that this was Rowling's first piece of published fiction. Amazing to consider, isn't it?
He thinks she will go back and write more stories from the wizarding world eventually...though no time soon. I'm not surprised he thinks so, given how many times he has gone back and re-visited Ender's world, and in how many ways he's explored that...even exploring the "shadow" world and the "shadow" character of the exact same story when he wrote "Ender's Shadow." More on that in another post, as I find myself wanting to explore "Harry's Shadow" a bit...
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Great review, and I especially enjoyed all his comments about the literary elite. I've had it up to here with Harold Bloom... And he makes a good point with "Literature matters only to the degree that it shapes and changes human behavior by making the audience wish to be better because they read it." It's a very vindicating article...
Stephen King's is worth a read too: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20044270_20044274_20050689,00.html
Hmm... That link doesn't seem to have posted properly. If you Google "stephen king" and "the last word on harry potter" it should come up...
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