Harry Potter Book 6 - DONE!
Tuesday, December 21st, 2004 - 2:27am
For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance. ~Ron Shelton, Bull Durham, 1988
You could have mentioned the release date!
JK Rowling''s two English language publishers Scholastic and Bloomsbury announced today that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be released at midnight GMT in the United Kindom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa on Saturday, July 16th, 2005.
Which for the curious was actually pronounced ""Huzzay!"". But I agree, good news all around, can''t wait to sink my eyeteeth into this one...
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Good news - thanks Ulairi! Hope she can keep her writing strong all the way to the series finale.
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Wow... only one more in the series... I''m going to be sorry for it to end...
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So if my past behavior is any indication, I will be finishing it at promptly 4AM, July 18th, give or take an hour, after telling my wife that I just wanted to get in a quick chapter before hitting the sack.
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So is this one going to be longer once again? I love me some big thick books.
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Her new contract that started two books ago pays her by the word, so expect another bigger, poorly edited, book.
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Now THAT, folks, is a Happy Solstice present.
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I''m really looking forwad to this one but have to agree with Alien13z, the last one could have benefited from some serious editing. It has been my least favorite of the series so far.
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Actually, Mumford, the word on the street is that is will be slightly shorter than the last.
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Crazy talk! The more the better!
For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance. ~Ron Shelton, Bull Durham, 1988
Ah well.
I thought Order of the Phoenix was pretty good, but man, Harry Potter was angry, he was angry, he was angry.
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I didn''t think angry so much as I thought whiny with the last one.
"Anakin, as embodied by [Hayden] Christensen, is the kind of needlessly moody kid you might see getting punched out in a Dairy Queen parking lot."
"”Paul Tatara on SW:Episode II
I would love it if they swapped in Hayden Christensen for Harry in the next movie.
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It''s funny, because I totally agree that Order of the Phoenix was too long and too padded, but this is the one series where I don''t mind -- in fact I almost like it. If it means that the joy of reading a new Harry Potter book will last a little longer, I''m all for it
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Exactly. I love reading long, wordy, and padded books.
For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance. ~Ron Shelton, Bull Durham, 1988
Cool. I''ve been waiting to read about this.
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You are one sick bastard.
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I thought it was more angst then anger. He was pissy, certainly, but he angsted like a madman. But, when I think of main characters in a number of other mainstream fantasy novels, angst does seem to be quite the norm.
Not that I won''t have the book finished in ten hours.
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Well you know its not like he hasn''t had enough to be angsty about. Parents killed, lived under the stairs, responsible for death of somewhat friend and so on...
I though the general story line got more interesting as the books went on. (the fifth book being my favorite so far).
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""I don''t like sand, it is rough and it gets everywhere.
Not like you, Hermione. You''re soft and ... ""
(Mr. Christensen never gets to finish the phrase as he is mobbed and stomped to death by a conjoined crowd of Star Wars and Harry Potter fans)
I could accept Hayden in the Harry role, but only if they put Lohan in as Hermoine.
Wait. No I couldn''t.
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H Granger, she got big ass titties!
Mariah Carey, she got big ass titties!
Halle Berry, she got big ass titties!
Angelina Jo-lie, she got big ass titties!
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Um, Alien...
Anyway, my wife and I have read the first five books outloud to each other (car trips, while cooking dinner and other chores, bed time, lazy saturdays...) and really enjoyed them. Was the fifth book longer than it needed to be? I''m about as uncritical as you can get as a movie watch or book reader, but yeah we kinda noticed it could have been edited a bit more.
Oh well. Bring on book six!
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Books on tape, man...Bookson taaaaape
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I hate them. Loathe them. Too many bad BAD memories of driving cross country with my parents listening to Cthulhu be damn Loius L''Amour books on tape!
ARRGH!
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I COMPLETELY agree with you, actually.
But, if I had the choice between someone reading the book to me on a tape, or my girlfriend reading a book to me, I would pick the tape.
Plus, if I''m reading a book to someone (which, I''m assuming there''s some sort of trading-off procedure) I focus too much on the READING (i.e. interesting voices, correct emphasis on the words) that I usually get done and think to myself ""wait... what did I just read?""
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You know, I am really fascinated by this:
Mrs. Rowling set out to portray a typical, socially slightly impaired teenager, in other words, us some years back. She succeeds admirably in capturing the main characteristics of that period of development, and we, reading those books, get angry, angry, angry...
Pavolv would''ve been proud, really.
Anyway, personally, I prefer the second book to the others, presumably because it was the only one not directly tied into the overarching Voldemort-plotline, but I had a fun time reading the fifth and will buy the sixth on the day of its release, as well. They''re simply enjoyable books.
And if I haven't seen further, it's because those bloody giants blocked my sight.
I considered posting this in the recommended books thread but since it is technically a ""young adults"" series I thought I''d post here. I really enjoyed The Bartimaeus Trilogy books by Jonathan Stroud. Only books 1 and 2 are out actually but he''s a very good writer. Rowling is a fantastic world builder but is hampered by the fact that she is at best, an average writer in my opinion.
Stroud''s books don''t read like ""young adult"" fiction to me actually and other than the fact that one of the protagonists is a young boy it could really just be classified as fantasy.
I find Terry Pratchett''s EXCELLENT discworld children''s books the same way. I have no problem at all just viewing them as Discworld books. (Highly recommended, Pratchett fans if you haven''t read them already.) I find them much less ""child-oriented"" than his other children''s books.
I do very much enjoy the Harry Potter series, (book 3 is my favourite) but I do occasionally find some of the ""young readers"" parts a bit tedious to my adult brain. (The Dursley''s are really a bit much for me, for example. It''d be far better for me if they weren''t such complete and total gits. It''s ridiculous.) I don''t begrudge Rowling this at all though as, she didn''t write these books for me, I''m just lucky enough to mostly enjoy them anyway.
I''ll be picking book 6 up on opening day.
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