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I'm getting worked up into a fever pitch just be reading Google news, I am so excited and such a nerd I can hardly stand it and only 2 1/2 more hours and I can read it! Maybe I'm the only one who's excited about this. Shit, I can't fucking WAIT! |
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Got it Sunday at 2.30 - read from 3 - 6.30 when we had to leave for dinner and a movie - read another chapter or two this morning, but couldnt quite finish before I had to leave to go to work. Stupid work. |
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I also totally called the plot, all my little predictions (who he hooks up with kinda and who dies, mainly) came true. Go nerd go! |
Please, nobody spoil the plot or tell us who dies, okay? At least until I'm done. :P |
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i thought i already was! i thought about that as soon as i typed it, this is the second big line i've gone to look at in the past month. What's wrong with me??? in fairness, it just happened to be on the way home from picking up Rowlf & housemate after their late showing of the Hulk. I wasn't sitting in my car in the parking lot with a coffee for hours and hours with a big foam #1 finger...."Bring on the LINE!!!" But i do love watching people. Especially in food courts at malls. They're so predictable, yet surprising. Malls are better than tv. ......... holy shit i think housemate left an in-progress naked painting of his girlfriend out in his closet and i can see it from his comp! ! ! ! this is not right! ! ! ! |
I am waiting to buy the book until after we get paid, and wish my friends had one I could borrow. I was hoping that it would be darker that the 4th book, and am curious about the rumors of Draco Malfoy dying. Wanna see if Ron figures out he's hot for Hermione, blah, blah, blah, like the next day of the soap opera. It's driving me nuts that I am not reading this book! The third was my favorite book so far, as well. I am looking forward to the movie......Alan Rickman and Gary Oldman in an attitude contest......hehehe. Can't wait to see it! I also love the actor playing Professor Lupin. I didn't automatically think of him, but once I saw his name in the roll, I thought he was perfect for the part. Maybe I will be expecting too much of the actors, though. I dunno. |
I'm on p. 494 now. I don't want Draco to die -- so far, the book is leaning heavily on the "band together to fight the Big Evil" motif, so it would be a shame if that comes to naught and he's killed. (I also have the sneaking suspicion that he's got a thing for Hermione, and that makes him hate her. I want to see if I'm right.) Dammit, why do I have to work? |
And the third book is still my favourite...by far. This book is...well, it is darker, but I don't really like the angry adolescent thing Harry's got going on right now. I'm glad she's aging her characters but do they need to YELL all the time? |
I have always wondered about that with Draco and Hermione. I totally need to read this book. |
Ron and Hermione argue a lot in book #5, so I'm sure that's got to mean they'll hook up eventually, but I like my angst-ridden "draco likes hermione, but her mudblood makes him hate her and hate himself for liking her" theory much better. Ron is so annoying. |
I WILL finish the book tonight, I've promised myself. |
I liked it - I'm kinda upset though. |
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i had to stop at the end cause i was stressed at work and the book was making me cry |
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I make an exception for Harry Potter. I finished it last night. I...ummm...I cried at the end. Not when the person actually died, but at the part in the next chapter when someone didn't believe that the person was dead and went looking for the person. I'm so ashamed. |
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I am so glad, on that note, that Harry frequently thought about Cedric in book #5 -- I can't stand it when traumatic events happen in books/movies/TV, and characters move on without a backward glance. That's another thing I liked about LOTR, too -- all throughout the 2nd and 3rd books, characters were still thinking about Boromir and mourning him. That makes it much more realistic, in a human/emotional sense. |
Let me just say I loved learning about Harry's father's personality and his relationship with Snape. Poor Snape. :( |
I hated everything is illuminated, I vote that Harry Potter becomes the june/july selection since we're all talking about it anyway. All backordered now, too. They printed 8.5 million copies and they're out. Wow. |
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a friend gave me the first harry potter book to read while i was in bed for six weeks following the Gnarly Surgery. i couldn't finish it, and forever have a negative association with all things harry potter. i'm on heavy pain medication right now. |
I have a general question about Lucius Malfoy -- how the heck has he been allowed to roam around freely, if it's common knowledge (as it appears to be) that he's a Death Eater? I thought it was neat that we finally got a tiny glimpse of Mrs. Malfoy (Narcissa Black). Draco's mother....what must she be like? |
It's common knowledge among our little group of heroes, but they don't have much credit in society, so... I liked getting much more back ground on Snape and Sirius and their whole scene, I feel that those characters have more depth now. |
All of Snape's horrible behavior makes much more sense now that we know what his damage is. Re-reading the scene where he and Sirius fight over who gets to teach Harry Occlumency....Snape looks so much better. Sirius still calling him Snivellus? Please! I had forgotten about this -- one thing in this book that I am so glad to finally see is at the end, where Draco sneers something at Harry and Harry says, basically, "Why are you still picking on me? Can't you see how powerful I am?" That's one thing that has bugged me all throughout the series -- Draco clearly sees that Harry is strong enough to defeat Voldemort 2, 3, 4 times...and he still bullies him? That never made any sense to me. I hope Rowling spends some time on Draco's character development in the next book. He hasn't changed much from the first book, and that seems like sloppiness or oversight on her part. |
Personally, I like them because I think they're creative and engaging, and the overall plot has hooked me into caring about what happens to Harry and his friends at the end of the series. I don't doubt that he'll kill the bad guy, but I want to see how he does it and what the fallout is like. |
That's why I like the LOTR movies so much - Jackson changes enough that there are still surprises while remaining essential true to the overall story line and spirit of the books. Which leads me to mention that I am going to pick up that series again, like I promised myself I would do before the last movie came out. It's been at least four years or more since I've read them. |
That's a great thread. All those children's fantasy books. Did you know Neil Gaiman has written a few kids' books? I gotta get me some of those. I need a library card. |
But, Sem, you could say that about *any* book that has been made into a film. Any film that follows the book's plot faithfully will still leave out tons of the book's details -- that's the best incentive to read the book if you've liked the movie. (And the Harry Potter books don't make you listen to the horror that was Moaning Myrtle in the movie. Another incentive.) (On the other hand, the Harry Potter movies have Alan Rickman, and will have Gary Oldman. *swoon and swoon*) Besides, if you've already read the books and love them, you want the film to remain true to the text. I wasn't happy about the changes in the Two Towers movie. |
Hell Yeah! I am so looking forward to the third movie just for that! I didn't think that the second movie was all that true to text, I mean, they didn't change the story line or anything, but damn did they leave a LOT out. I am going crazy. I totally need to read that book!!!!!!! Someone needs to lend me a copy when they are done with theirs. Unfortunately everyone I know has a waiting list for people borrowing their book :( |
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Hayley now loves to compare the books to the movies and point out the differences between the book and the movies to her little friends as she watches the movies with them. |
I also read a Neil Gaimon book recently called "Stardust", or something similar. I totally loved it. Page 90 of "Everything is Illuminated" now. I'm officially into it, and am in love with Sammy Davis Junior Junior. |
I guess I am easily bored with books, though. So I am waiting until I can get my hands on the new Potter book, looking at all of your comments and going crazy, and think that, when I finish this book again, I will try the LOTR books again. |
Andrew finished the fifth one on Wednesday night. He's still not totally impressed. He thought the ending was weak. |
It is a small book compared to most though, and it is it's size and fast pace that makes you think it might actually work in a movie. Most books don't have that because they have too many characters and the depth of those characters to get across in their book, where as this is part of a large series, so you already know the character, which in turn would make that hard to get across on film. Most movies aren't nearly as good as the books, though. The only times I have found the movie better was when the movie preceeded the book. I don't care if the ending is dissapointing. I still wanna read it! |