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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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 Posted - 07/19/2007 : 18:31:33
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Just for fun-- who's waiting up until midnight tomorrow to run to the local bookstore and grab the latest (and last!) Harry Potter book? I will, but sadly must embark on a 5 hour road trip early on Saturday morning, meaning that as I drive down I-81, that damned book is going to be pretty tempting. How dangerous is it to read a book while doing 85 through Scranton, PA? 
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JEROME DA GNOME
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 Posted - 07/19/2007 : 18:35:18 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Just for fun-- who's waiting up until midnight tomorrow to run to the local bookstore and grab the latest (and last!) Harry Potter book? I will, but sadly must embark on a 5 hour road trip early on Saturday morning, meaning that as I drive down I-81, that damned book is going to be pretty tempting. How dangerous is it to read a book while doing 85 through Scranton, PA?
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I-81 is fairly straight and smooth; you should be O.K.!
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 07/19/2007 : 19:14:50 [Permalink]
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I pre-ordered it from Amazon.com months ago. They have solemnly promised to have it on my doorstep the morning of the 21st -- this coming Saturday.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 07/19/2007 : 19:18:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by JEROME DA GNOME
Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Just for fun-- who's waiting up until midnight tomorrow to run to the local bookstore and grab the latest (and last!) Harry Potter book? I will, but sadly must embark on a 5 hour road trip early on Saturday morning, meaning that as I drive down I-81, that damned book is going to be pretty tempting. How dangerous is it to read a book while doing 85 through Scranton, PA?
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I-81 is fairly straight and smooth; you should be O.K.!
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Not around Scranton. That's mountain road. It winds around a lot, and it's where the truckers grab them gears.
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 07/29/2007 : 18:40:52 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Not around Scranton. That's mountain road. It winds around a lot, and it's where the truckers grab them gears. |
Too true! In fact, having done the Upstate NY-to-Baltimore thing too many times this past year, I know that road pretty well. There are certainly parts where you want to keep your eyes on the road, else it's a steeeep drop.
Thus, the temptation to live long enough to read it was stronger than the one to actually read while driving.
I saw elsewhere that you got your book and have started into it, Filthy. What did you think? Although I had some idea about what was going to happen with Snape, I must say that that JKR did it better than I could have imagined, and with a few extra twists! |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/29/2007 : 19:15:47 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Originally posted by filthy
Not around Scranton. That's mountain road. It winds around a lot, and it's where the truckers grab them gears. |
Too true! In fact, having done the Upstate NY-to-Baltimore thing too many times this past year, I know that road pretty well. There are certainly parts where you want to keep your eyes on the road, else it's a steeeep drop.
Thus, the temptation to live long enough to read it was stronger than the one to actually read while driving.
I saw elsewhere that you got your book and have started into it, Filthy. What did you think? Although I had some idea about what was going to happen with Snape, I must say that that JKR did it better than I could have imagined, and with a few extra twists!
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A masterful piece; superbly told. I wouldn't call it the greatest work of fiction ever, by any means but I wish I could write as well as Rowling.
I guessed Snape's fate, more or less, about book three. He was just too vile for it to be otherwise.
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Dr. Mabuse
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Sweden
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Posted - 07/30/2007 : 02:03:45 [Permalink]
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| I sent my girlfriend to pick up one copy. She's an early bird, and there's been people waiting outside the stores to grab the book when it's released, so in case there's a rush for the books she would be among the first to get one. I, on the other hand, was sleeping in... |
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Boron10
Religion Moderator
USA
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Posted - 07/30/2007 : 11:01:13 [Permalink]
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Ok, so I waited up until midnight, and went to the big bookstore in downtown San Diego so I could watch all the costumes and random silliness (HP came out one week before Comic-Con). Sadly, the line was as big as I had expected, but the people there all appeared to be "the worst kind of Muggles!" My girlfriend and I then walked over to the little bookstore; we got there around 12:30am and there was no line. We bought two copies of the book then went home and started on the reading.
It was great! And, without spoiling anything, I would like to say that it ended perfectly. I could not expect or wish for a better finish.
Now, I know JKR says this will be her last HP book, but does anybody think she might bend a little and start a "next generation" series? |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/30/2007 : 11:25:42 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Boron10
Ok, so I waited up until midnight, and went to the big bookstore in downtown San Diego so I could watch all the costumes and random silliness (HP came out one week before Comic-Con). Sadly, the line was as big as I had expected, but the people there all appeared to be "the worst kind of Muggles!" My girlfriend and I then walked over to the little bookstore; we got there around 12:30am and there was no line. We bought two copies of the book then went home and started on the reading.
It was great! And, without spoiling anything, I would like to say that it ended perfectly. I could not expect or wish for a better finish.
Now, I know JKR says this will be her last HP book, but does anybody think she might bend a little and start a "next generation" series? |
Possible certainly, but I don't think she will. No matter how good it might be, it would still be the shadow of the first series and therefore anticlimatic by it's very nature.
I think that she'll write something very different, albeit in the same genre. I also think that that's a goodish way down the road.
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 07/30/2007 : 12:38:10 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Boron10
Ok, so I waited up until midnight, and went to the big bookstore in downtown San Diego so I could watch all the costumes and random silliness (HP came out one week before Comic-Con). Sadly, the line was as big as I had expected, but the people there all appeared to be "the worst kind of Muggles!" My girlfriend and I then walked over to the little bookstore; we got there around 12:30am and there was no line. We bought two copies of the book then went home and started on the reading. |
This happened to me-- I was at the big B&N, lucky number 202 in line. At about 11:45, I was fed up and so walked to a 24 hour grocery store nearby. They were selling the books too at exactly the same price, but with a much much smaller crowd. I was out of there by 12:04 and stayed up almost until 1 reading.
| Now, I know JKR says this will be her last HP book, but does anybody think she might bend a little and start a "next generation" series? |
I know that she's talked about doing an "encyclopedia" where she'll fill in gaps and flesh out various character and such with history that she couldn't include in the books themselves. But I don't know if a "next generation" thing is on her list. Perhaps when she wants to make a move on Oprah for number 1 on the list of richest women in the world in a few years, she'll pick up her pen again... |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 07/30/2007 : 13:00:22 [Permalink]
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I think she'll pick up the pen a lot sooner than a few years. Like all of the best writers, she's compulsive. She simply can't not pick it up, and obscene wealth has nothing to do with it.
Indeed, she might have (probably has) a glimmer of something in the back of her mind already.
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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MilindChatterji
New Member
India
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Posted - 12/15/2008 : 08:23:36 [Permalink]
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| i am a Harry Potter fan, n must have read all the series more than thrice. the last one, Harry potter and the deadly hallows i finished within 4days time.. sad tht J k Rowling has announced that this will be her last book of the series.. hope she changes her heart soon..! at least for harry Potter fans like us. |
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ArunSaxena
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Posted - 01/06/2009 : 02:57:56 [Permalink]
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| well, of the all earlier releases, i had managed to read the exciting world of Harry Potters just within a few days of its release, but this last deathly Hallows i have read only a couple of months back.i feel the excitement and thrill that was there in Prisoner of Azkaban or the Order of Pheonix is lacking here to some extent. what's your opinion? |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 01/06/2009 : 03:22:05 [Permalink]
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Coincidentally, over the last couple of months, I've re-read the entire series. I've finally reached Deathly Hallows and will start it again soon.
HP is one of those yarns that never seem to get stale.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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and Crypto-Communist!
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 01/07/2009 : 05:34:50 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Coincidentally, over the last couple of months, I've re-read the entire series. I've finally reached Deathly Hallows and will start it again soon.
HP is one of those yarns that never seem to get stale.
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It is, isn't it? It sort of surprised me the first time I read it.
There are more serious - books that I read and re-read without ever tiring of (Brave New World comes to mind), but HP did surprise me in that aspect of not getting boring... |
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