After getting it 36 hours after Everyone Else due to the Theocracy I am living under *and* trying to fit it in with the TdF...I finished it last night.
The best book since the first one. Lots of action and wonderful themes about Life, love, racism, power going to people's heads, and teenagers biting off more than they can chew but surviving and winning through. Brilliant ending or endings.
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07-23-2007, 07:31 PM #1
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07-24-2007, 01:53 AM #2
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Without saying anything else, I think that Snape has consistently proven to be the 'richest' character in the sense of depth and dimension. While Harry is the star, JKR really made a masterpiece in his character...right to the end, we're still guessing, "is he or isn't he????"
Slinke, I agree that your kids are way too young...and a couple of the movies are way too 'dark' for such an age. But then, their 'age' will have its own epic blockbuster someday
PS: SilverSon finished it last night...that means I'm now fully informed
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07-24-2007, 06:08 AM #3
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Ok, it looks like I may just be the last living human to not have read any of the HP books! I am an avid reader, just never thought I would be interested. Evidentally that's heresy (or close to it)! I was sitting by the pool Sunday, reading my latest who-done-it, when my SO saw that a nearby sun-worshipper was reading a HP book... needless to say... almost an hour later I was ready to hit him over the head for even asking, 'cuz she was still talking...
Ok, so here's the question... should I start now with the first... or just hop on the last one...
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07-24-2007, 08:32 AM #4
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Begin at the beginning-- it won't be as much fun if you don't, and the foreshadowing and tension won't work as well. You'd need to at least start with the Prisoner of Azkaban, and the first two are so short (comparatively) that they'll be like canapes to the main course of the later novels.
The Deathly Hallows is really the best one, better written and constructed, I thought.I read the book straight thru on Saturday starting at about 7 pm...I was sleepy on Sunday! Then DH and I saw Order of the Phoenix yesterday on our one kid-free day. I will say that I was glad to have seen the movie after finishing the last book--it really made Snape so much more interesting and even a poignant character, even in his chilliness.
My 8-almost-9-year-old son loves Harry Potter, and wants to start reading the first one. It's a stretch for him (he's dyslexic) but I think worth trying.
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07-24-2007, 05:24 PM #5
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Actually, you're wrong. I've never read a single one -
Originally Posted by jeannierides
Ok, it looks like I may just be the last living human to not have read any of the HP books! I am an avid reader, just never thought I would be interested. Evidentally cause I'm from Alabama and don't know how to read - why read when you can seen the movie?
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07-31-2007, 03:23 PM #6
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Another non-Harry reader here. But I am a HP (and TdF) widow. Originally Posted by Mr. Silver
Actually, you're wrong. I've never read a single one - cause I'm from Alabama and don't know how to read - why read when you can seen the movie?
I tried slogging my way through the first book. No wait. Maybe it was the second. I have seen all of the movies - they are harmless, but the books I find impossible to read. Plus, they're all the same. Here's a summary of just about every book to date (last one excepted - but I have no reason to believe it won't be more of the same):
"Boy, that was some awful summer. My aunt and uncle are nasty" says Harry.
"Don't look now, Harry." says someone. "He-who-must not be named is after you - again." [Convenient how he always shows up during the school year, isn't it? - ed.]
The school administration either (a) looks the other way, or (b) actively enables star athlete's breaking the rules.
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07-31-2007, 03:32 PM #7
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If you'd read the books you'd know that there's a good reason why the bad guy only shows up during the school year. Originally Posted by Regina
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07-31-2007, 06:53 PM #8
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I was amazed that following the AWESOME battle scene with Valdemort (which we were watching in 3D IMAX - OMG - it was 15 minutes of awesome)...but anyway, SilverSon leans over and says:
"in the book, that scene was much longer...the did this...and this...and so on"
Geez...it told me he really did read it, but more so, he remembered it!If you don't grow where you're planted, you'll never BLOOM - Will Rogers
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07-31-2007, 12:54 PM #9
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[QUOTE=Mr. Silver;226611]Without saying anything else, I think that Snape has consistently proven to be the 'richest' character in the sense of depth and dimension. While Harry is the star, JKR really made a masterpiece in his character...right to the end, we're still guessing, "is he or isn't he????"
I absolutely agree.
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