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Harry Potter final book discussion
Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Started conversation Jul 22, 2007
I want to buzz away about the latest Harry Potter book ...
I am sure there's a thread on Ask the Community ... but I think I also want a thread full of folks I know and folks who may simply come across this thread.
What better place than hootoo (seems every time I come here, it reinforces my bits of Brit vernacular, and that's what the book's doing, too ... perfect)?
Reading status as of this post: I have made it to page 223, the beginning of Chapter Twelve. I have the book released to the U.S., being that I live in Denver and all ...
(this has nothing to do with Potter, but I got back from Yellowstone this week and posted a blog about it, complete with some wildlife photos, here: http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Travel/Blog~337537.aspx)
Hope you all are fabulous!
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HappyDude Posted Jul 22, 2007
Your first post here in ages and as I have never read any 'Harry Potter' I cannot post anything constructive ... so I'll just say "Hi"
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Lady Pennywhistle - Back with a vengeance! [for a certain, limited value of Vengeance; actual amounts of Vengeance may vary] Posted Jul 22, 2007
I haven't read the book (my brother got it on the big-event-sale-thing and read it right away; me, it'll take me a while longer till I get to it). Read the spoilers that were reported in the paper, though, because I don't care enough to be bothered by knowing these details.
Don't worry though, I won't tell you.
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Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Jul 23, 2007
Bloody hell, Parrferrs! Finished it in two days? I've had a day and a half and 220-odd pages remain ... you rock!
Hi HappyDude and Lady P ...
I'm directing you three and any other eyes on this post to my blog, because it says really all I can say about the book and my experience of it so far (thanks for the read): http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Arts-Entertainment/Literature/Books/Blog~338083.aspx
Quite glad to see you all dropped by. Thanks for that!
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 23, 2007
I bought it Saturday night on my way to a friend's house for dinner. Got back home at 10:30, and read until 1:00 in the morning. I've since read whenever I've had the chance.
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Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde Posted Jul 23, 2007
Paul, it's a wonderful book, isn't it?
I just read it and YAY!!! .... here are my initial thoughts (which don't give away anything, this is a separate blog from the one linked to in my other hootoo journal entry: http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Arts-Entertainment/Literature/Books/Blog~338284.aspx)
Enjoy the read, Pauly.
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Afgncaap5 Posted Aug 9, 2007
I just finished it. Liked it, for the most part. Hard to say what I didn't care for without leaving some spoilers, though.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Aug 10, 2007
The actress who plays Ron Weasley's mother in the movies also plays Jane Austen's mother in "Becoming Jane."
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Irving Washington Posted Aug 23, 2007
I'm with you there, Affy, there were parts that I didn't care for, but they would probably be concidered spoilerish to those who hadn't gotten far.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Aug 23, 2007
In four weeks we've only had ten posts on this exciting subject?
Where are the hundreds of millions of Harry Potter fans worldwide who should be offering opinions about this crucial book?
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Irving Washington Posted Aug 23, 2007
They are afraid of spoiling those who haven't read it, greiving over the end of the series, rereading the book, and/or depressed over the unfufilling epilogue.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Aug 23, 2007
Joanne *tried* to write a fulfilling epilogue. The original one was full of details, but she reread it and thought it was ho-hum.
So, she wrote the one that's there now. An author can't win sometimes.
I expect that the movie version will be spectacular!
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Irving Washington Posted Aug 23, 2007
Actually, now that you say that... its a perfect epilogue for a movie. Just not for a book. I mean, some of the questions that are left unanswered, like what the trio do for a living, she answered in interviews, but it's not the same. And I don't think she's ever said what Ginny does for a living -- I can't see her being a stay at home Mom, no matter how good Molly was at that.
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Leo Posted Aug 23, 2007
I stopped reading after #5, but swore that if she did in Snape I would hunt her down and shoot her. So as soon as the book came out I asked about him, was satisfied, and can now get on with life.
Hi, by the way. I wandered in by backroad and byway.
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Irving Washington Posted Aug 23, 2007
Snape had exactly the death his character earned. Betrayed by the master he had betrayed, and he got to look into the eyes of the love of his life (or at least eyes very much like hers) for his last moment.
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Afgncaap5 Posted Aug 24, 2007
Book #5 is the only one of the books that I really didn't care for (however, in a surprising twist, I actually thoroughly enjoyed the movie.)
I have a thread on a forum I help administrate dedicated entirely to posting all the book and movie spoilers that No One Should Read before experiencing the story for themselves. I made sure to be the first person to post any Deathly Hallows spoilers.
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Irving Washington Posted Aug 24, 2007
Have you re-read book 5? I liked it better the 3rd time around. I hated it the first time. The key things to remember are a) yes, Harry's being an @$$ hole, but all 15 year olds are @$$ holes, and b) all of the really, really bad stuff that goes on for the whole book makes the part where Fred and George get away that much sweeter.
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Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted Aug 24, 2007
Hi, I bought Hallows about a week after it came out, started reading it four days later, and couldn't stop until it was finished after 3 days.
It's really good (!!!) but also incredibly bleak. There didn't seem to be a single moment of triumph that didn't have a hefty chunk of disaster either mixed in with or immediately following it. However, there were large sections that were incredibly emotionally fraught, and I felt all that emotion as I was reading. The chapter that (trying to avoid spoilers) starts in the Headmaster's office was absolutely incredible.
As people have said, though, the epilogue was unsatisfying.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Aug 25, 2007
I liked the fifth movie a lot, too.
I need to go back and reread the 7th book because I was in a hurry to get through it....
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Harry Potter final book discussion
- 1: Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde (Jul 22, 2007)
- 2: HappyDude (Jul 22, 2007)
- 3: Lady Pennywhistle - Back with a vengeance! [for a certain, limited value of Vengeance; actual amounts of Vengeance may vary] (Jul 22, 2007)
- 4: parrferris (Jul 23, 2007)
- 5: Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde (Jul 23, 2007)
- 6: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Jul 23, 2007)
- 7: Dragonfly. "A poet can survive everything but a misprint"-- Oscar Wilde (Jul 23, 2007)
- 8: Afgncaap5 (Aug 9, 2007)
- 9: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Aug 10, 2007)
- 10: Irving Washington (Aug 23, 2007)
- 11: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Aug 23, 2007)
- 12: Irving Washington (Aug 23, 2007)
- 13: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Aug 23, 2007)
- 14: Irving Washington (Aug 23, 2007)
- 15: Leo (Aug 23, 2007)
- 16: Irving Washington (Aug 23, 2007)
- 17: Afgncaap5 (Aug 24, 2007)
- 18: Irving Washington (Aug 24, 2007)
- 19: Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk (Aug 24, 2007)
- 20: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Aug 25, 2007)
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