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Sir Skullcrasher · Jul 18, 2005, 10:03 PM // 22:03

wow, i finish this book in 3 day (and no, i didn't read it all day for it) the ending was cool, but is it just me, or the book is starting to get smaller, the 5th on Harry Potter: Order of Phoenix was 800-900 pages, this one was only 640?

but i can't wait till Harry Potter kill Lord Voldermort next years

Loviatar · Jul 18, 2005, 10:05 PM // 22:05

books 1 and 2 were fun

book 3 was so-so

book 4 ehh

book 5 sucked period because what really happened in all those pages?

not getting this one till paperback if at all

=HT=Ingram · Jul 18, 2005, 10:24 PM // 22:24

Harry Potter and the Seventh Soul. BTW #6 is Potter himself. lol OPPS Not reviled but rather obvious if you ask me. What does that tell you in the end huh? lol

Danny_Rowe · Jul 18, 2005, 10:51 PM // 22:51

There aint no Wizard party like a Gandalph Wizard party, Invitation only and harry potter isnt invited...Neither is Soromon

Vengeance · Jul 19, 2005, 12:36 AM // 00:36

OK ... I waited until I finished the book before even reading this thread ... and this is what I'm greeted by? A bunch of haters? God ... everyone's going to have a favourtie wizard ... I mean, after all my all time favourite is still a blatant rip off of Gandalf himself ... I'm talking about Fizban from the Dragonlance series ... FIREBALL!!!

However ... you'd have a hard time trying to make the point that the Potter books are not good on their own ... and I'm talking about doing a standalone argument, not the 'well Rowling just ripped off Tolkein'-kind of argument.

Was this book the best? No. Because in the end it really is just the setup for the final chapter ... but it doesn't diminish the quality of the book. If you just want to complain and bitch about the books ... then at least first qualify that you have READ AT LEAST ONE OF THEM ... not the movies ... but one of the books.

So ... let's share some general thoughts and opinions ... not barbs ... OK?

Mo/R9 · Jul 19, 2005, 01:25 AM // 01:25

***SPOILER WARNING***

I think the portrait of Dumbledore will assist Harry with advice in the 7th book, since it has already been shown that the portraits of prior headmasters/mistresses have assisted various people.

Fawkes will help Harry somehow and the DA will be associated/merged with the Order.

I also agree with the 7th being Harry, because it says in "Order" that "Voldemort transferred some of himself to you the night he tried to kill you Harry" or something similar.

ManadartheHealer · Jul 19, 2005, 01:57 AM // 01:57

I read the first few Harry Potter books (through Goblet of Fire). And after that, I really lost interest. Seemed like the same things kept happening over and over to the same mundane children that weren't really interesting to begin with.

I would start reading again if something remotely interesting would actually happen. Like if Hogwarts imploded, a wand got shoved in someone's ass and turned them into something spectacular, or if Harry Potter and his little friends die in some intriguing way

Sir Skullcrasher · Jul 19, 2005, 02:28 AM // 02:28

speaking of books, would Guild Wars be great if someone wrote the whole story line into a book series?

Mo/R9 · Jul 19, 2005, 02:33 AM // 02:33

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Originally Posted by ManadartheHealer

I read the first few Harry Potter books (through Goblet of Fire). And after that, I really lost interest. Seemed like the same things kept happening over and over to the same mundane children that weren't really interesting to begin with.

I would start reading again if something remotely interesting would actually happen. Like if Hogwarts imploded, a wand got shoved in someone's ass and turned them into something spectacular, or if Harry Potter and his little friends die in some intriguing way

*pokes seventh book*

d4nowar · Jul 19, 2005, 03:08 AM // 03:08

I've come up with a theory that this book had absolutely no content in it. All 652 pages were just a trick.

I need to read it again to prove it though...

ty3c · Jul 19, 2005, 03:43 AM // 03:43

personally i write alot more then i read

my sister tho loves these books own em all up to this one

now i dont bash the books after all a wise man once said a writer writes no matter what they write

i dont read them but i do love my sister reading them she gets smarter everyday

but some people seem to think these books are evil and sick

THEY ARE NOT

it's just a story and my sister and alot others think the story is wonderful

shes not brainwashed no one is who reads them

yo if people wanna attack me ive read alot of books some of you wont like

i read george carlin books, lewis blacks book, and other books

i perfer to write and i love write becuase i call the shots i find its more fun to create then read others creations but all in all these books are not evil and that are quite great but i perfer to write thats my two cents

ManadartheHealer · Jul 19, 2005, 03:46 AM // 03:46

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Originally Posted by ty3c

but some people seem to think these books are evil and sick

Only the same people who told us the earth was flat, we all had two ancestors who came from some screwed up ancient garden, and that a fetus has legal rights

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Originally Posted by ty3c

I read george carlin books...

I love George Carlin

Ultimate_Gaara · Jul 19, 2005, 07:39 AM // 07:39

Ive never touched a harry potter book in my life, but i saw a video about the ending that gave me quite a chuckle

PieXags · Jul 19, 2005, 07:43 AM // 07:43

Got the book earlier today, finished it just a while ago. Great book, loved the entire thing and I felt really good about the overall experience. In short, I would've payed $50 for this one book.

The entire series is great, the series seems to keep getting better with the most recent releases, and I think the 7th book will be among the most brilliant reads I'll ever have the pleasure to own.

Woot.

Weezer_Blue · Jul 19, 2005, 07:50 AM // 07:50

after reading the first few Potter books, I can safely say The Lord of the Rings was better ... but I don't read much... so that's probably not the best anyway.

...Danny, can Radagast the Brown come?

DOOM Anomaly · Jul 19, 2005, 08:25 AM // 08:25

I've been meaning to get around into reading about this book. I kind of got off track after reading the first few.

I wonder if Harry will marry me like Rowling said so when I inquired of the ending...

Omega_2005 · Jul 19, 2005, 08:59 AM // 08:59

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Originally Posted by sir skulkcrasher

speaking of books, would Guild Wars be great if someone wrote the whole story line into a book series?

Well we could make an idea in a new thread if needed, introduce our characters over time, and maybe put some humor in it (and a few acceptable "words") and then it could possibly happen!

Danny_Rowe · Jul 19, 2005, 09:21 AM // 09:21

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Originally Posted by Weezer_Blue

after reading the first few Potter books, I can safely say The Lord of the Rings was better ... but I don't read much... so that's probably not the best anyway.

...Danny, can Radagast the Brown come?

i think hed have to sneak in,

Mercury Angel · Jul 19, 2005, 09:56 AM // 09:56

Haven't read this book yet, but I've read all of the Harry Potters up to this one.
It's by far not my favourite series, and I've probably only read the books from it 2-3 times a piece (Not a lot considering I've read many of my books 6+ times through from start to finish. Might sound odd, but when you like it, re-reading it again in the future is nice, especially when you've forgotten aspects of it. Go forward another year or so and repeat. Also, when you've got to go on a long trip or need something portable to occupy yourself with, and you don't have time to buy or check out a new one, grabbing an old favourite is easy to do.)
I'd even say Harry Potter is a bit dry.

However, Harry Potter is still a major piece of contemporary literature, and I think it'd be a shame not to pick up a single book at least. It's actually required reading in the Contemporary Literature class, and on sale at the campus library.

Not getting to know what Harry Potter is about is like never watching The Titanic or being unfamiliar with the phrase, "Life is like a box of chocolates." for the better or worse.

Personally, for young adult fantasy, I much prefer the works of Tamora Pierce. It could also be that the main characters are primarily female, but I still think they're decent in their own right. (Especially so when you keep in mind their intended audience.)

I read my first Harry Potter in 5th grade. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was the most checked out book at the time in the library, I believe. (Librarians notice people who check out books frequently and share all sorts of incidental knowledge like that if you'll listen. Really good friend to make if you enjoy reading.)

Hoping to get the newest book in a few days and then I'll post my commentary here later, sans spoilers.

(And yes, I'm a Bibliophile, and one of my favourite animes is Read or Die to boot. :P)

EverBlue · Jul 19, 2005, 10:22 AM // 10:22

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Purely in the interests of science, I have replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in the first Harry Potter Book
Let's see the results...

"Why aren't you supposed to do magic?" asked Harry.
"Oh, well -- I was at Hogwarts meself but I -- er -- got expelled, ter tell yeh the truth. In me third year. They snapped me wang in half an' everything

A magic wang... this was what Harry had been really looking forward to.

"Yes, yes. I thought I'd be seeing you soon. Harry Potter." It wasn't a question. "You have your mother's eyes. It seems only yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wang. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wang for charm work."
"Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wang. Eleven inches. "

Harry took the wang. He felt a sudden warmth in his fingers. He raised the wang above his head, brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls

"Oh, move over," Hermione snarled. She grabbed Harry's wang, tapped the lock, and whispered, 'Alohomora!"

The troll couldn't feel Harry hanging there, but even a troll will notice if you stick a long bit of wood up its nose, and Harry's wang had still been in his hand when he'd jumped - it had gone straight up one of the troll's nostrils.

He bent down and pulled his wang out of the troll's nose. It was covered in what looked like lumpy gray glue.

He ran onto the field as you fell, waved his wang, and you sort of slowed down before you hit the ground. Then he whirled his wang at the dementors. Shot silver stuff at them.

Ok
I have found, definitive proof
that J.K Rowling is a dirty DIRTY woman, making a fool of us all
"Yes," Harry said, gripping his wang very tightly, and moving into the middle of the deserted classroom. He tried to keep his mind on flying, but something else kept intruding.... Any second now, he might hear his mother again... but he shouldn't think that, or he would hear her again, and he didn't want to... or did he?
O_______O
Something silver-white, something enormous, erupted from the end of his wang

Then, with a sigh, he raised his wang and prodded the silvery substance with its tip.

'Get - off - me!' Harry gasped. For a few seconds they struggled, Harry pulling at his uncles sausage-like fingers with his left hand, his right maintaining a firm grip on his raised wang.

Oh, come ON! You knew it was comnig eventually.