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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject: The last Potter book |
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the fastest selling book ever, beating itself. WH Smiths says it sold 15 books per second on Friday night when it came out. I am a good way through now and it really good.
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:39 am Post subject: |
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i am a complete snob and hate harry potter. but am still slightly curious as to what happens!
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| emily-in-a-coma wrote: | | i am a complete snob and hate harry potter. but am still slightly curious as to what happens! |
Harry lives, and gets married and has three kids,
the books was so so good, all tough the Epilog was really really terrible, i hated it, but the rest of the books was very good. It was a very dark book loads of character deaths, very sad at points, not much hummer. god knows how they plan on making this a kids film.
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 3:02 am Post subject: |
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I've never read any of them. It's not that I'm above it or anything. No. Much worse. I'm so deeply envious of her ability to hold the whole world in her thrall for this long that I find it impossible to even pick up one of the books. Honestly, they give me pangs.
Thank you, dear Helen, for allowing me to plumb the dirty depths of my stygian psyche on this lovely cream colored forum!
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:47 am Post subject: |
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Hahahhaa! That's what it's there for! 
I've never felt the slightest inclination to read the Harry Potter books because it just seems like such a rip-off of the Jill Murphy "Worst Witch" novels which I devoured between the ages of 7 and 8. I *am* Mildred Hubble! Clumsy, friendless, picked on. Those books meant so much to me that I can't bear the thought of reading the Potters because I would feel as if I was letting down my 7 year-old self. Then again, my 7 year-old self would probably have loved the Harry Potter books. Now that I'm 28, however, I read books like St Theresa's autobiography, not children's books.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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St Theresa rocks.
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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The Worst Witch books were wonderful! I hated those bitchy pretty girls...and now, ten years after reading them I actually know those bitchy pretty girls. Or their alternatives anyway, sadly i don't go to a school for witches.
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:30 am Post subject: |
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When I started to read them, I'd moved to a school in a big old Victorian gothic house, so I really felt like one day they were going to say, "Right, now we're all undercover, we can get out our cauldrons and do spells!"
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:48 am Post subject: |
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| Helen wrote: | Hahahhaa! That's what it's there for!
I've never felt the slightest inclination to read the Harry Potter books because it just seems like such a rip-off of the Jill Murphy "Worst Witch" novels which I devoured between the ages of 7 and 8. I *am* Mildred Hubble! Clumsy, friendless, picked on. Those books meant so much to me that I can't bear the thought of reading the Potters because I would feel as if I was letting down my 7 year-old self. Then again, my 7 year-old self would probably have loved the Harry Potter books. Now that I'm 28, however, I read books like St Theresa's autobiography, not children's books. |
i don't believe the last potter book is a children's book at all. There where far to many deaths, a lot of them for no reason at all.
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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That's a bit dark!
Ok... while I was away at my mum's last week I sat down and watched the first Harry Potter film. I quite enjoyed it, but it was very derivative. For example, the broomstick sport thing was like the "Spartacus" chariot race which was also ripped off for "Star Wars Phantom Menace"... and then when someone said "Don't go to the dark side" I was like... oh... I see... "Star Wars" again....
However, the way the 'reality' of the wizards' world is created is thoroughly absorbing, so I can see why people get so excited over it.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Helen wrote: | That's a bit dark!
Ok... while I was away at my mum's last week I sat down and watched the first Harry Potter film. I quite enjoyed it, but it was very derivative. For example, the broomstick sport thing was like the "Spartacus" chariot race which was also ripped off for "Star Wars Phantom Menace"... and then when someone said "Don't go to the dark side" I was like... oh... I see... "Star Wars" again....
However, the way the 'reality' of the wizards' world is created is thoroughly absorbing, so I can see why people get so excited over it. |
the first two filims are very week, they don't live up to the book and i find they miss most of the magic from the books out,
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