Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Page 8

EarthBound · 06-22-2005, 08:03 AM

wow, less than a month and we'll have the new book to read....perfect read for summer!

I get three weeks off this summer...perfect

Mercutio · 07-12-2005, 09:11 AM

Four more days! I'm on the waiting list at my local library for it...I got on months and months ago (they made the entry for the book and it just says "in processing" or something like that). I'm #36 and I discovered there are 54 HP HBP books being purchased by the system (a handful of the county libraries). I'm guaranteed to get it on day 1.

Yay!

I'd also like to get my hands on a German version. I'm thinking a good way to work on my Deutsch skills would be to read the German one along with English. Has anybody try that with books?

EarthBound · 07-12-2005, 09:20 AM

ugh! I hadn't thought about where I was going to purchase it! OH NO!!!

There's a Borders about an hour from where I live....but I suppose they'll be sold out immediately....or not...you can never tell who's paying attention to such things...

sun-star · 07-12-2005, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Mercutio

I'd also like to get my hands on a German version. I'm thinking a good way to work on my Deutsch skills would be to read the German one along with English. Has anybody try that with books?

I have, and it works really well with the HP books. The level of the language isn't too difficult, so it's easy to read, but at the same time you learn some great colloquial expressions!

I'm excited about HBP now... glad I've got a little local bookshop which definitely won't run out of copies on Saturday morning!

Spock · 07-12-2005, 11:39 AM

I too am hooked on HP. I watched the SS the other day for my thirteenth time (on tv) and ordered the new book five months ago. The merchant advised me that it will ship in four days. Yippie!!

**Nurvingiel** · 07-12-2005, 06:57 PM

I am also a huge HP geek. I was going to say I'm part of the Pottermania, but I'm getting my copy on the 18th of July, and this doesn't bother me, so I guess I'm not that obsessed.

I do know the exact date of when it comes out though (midnight on July 16th)... and Harry's birthday (July 31st) and Neville's birthday (July 30th)...

I did re-read the entire series recently, and I'm really, really looking forward to the next book.

gollum9630 · 07-12-2005, 10:14 PM

http://www.canada.com/vancouver/thep...f-eab280db9c0b

ahh to be one of these 14 lucky jerks

Elanor's Angel · 07-12-2005, 10:18 PM

I love Hp! I've read the series almost 8 times! I'm spending the night at the book store to get my copy in 3 days! (Today does not count) I simply cannot wait! 672 pages of HP goodness! (I'm also dressing up as Fleur Delecour sp?)

Spock · 07-13-2005, 09:54 AM

..ahem.....

durinsbane2244 · 07-13-2005, 02:40 PM

yea, im goin to books a million, it has an all night party type thingy, i just pre-bought mine 10 minutes ago, yay for nerdom, huzzah!

Spock · 07-13-2005, 02:45 PM

I'm checking my mail each day next week. When we all get the book and read it, we can have a good old party. The thing is you do want to 'savor' it after waiting so long.

inked · 07-13-2005, 04:11 PM

Well, mine is to arrive on Saturday AM by "brown" from Amazon! I just hope it gets here early so I can read all day and not all night! But I plan to read through it as the mood moves me (and then re-read it to savor it and extract all the clues, though that may take some time and many re-readings!)

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Lief Erikson · 07-13-2005, 06:38 PM

Veeery soon, we shall own this book

. And I will have three siblings at home to share it with

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durinsbane2244 · 07-13-2005, 07:35 PM

so, spock, am i invited?

Spock · 07-14-2005, 12:06 PM

Indeed.

durinsbane2244 · 07-14-2005, 01:42 PM

righteous. whos bringin the chips an dip?

EarthBound · 07-14-2005, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by durinsbane2244

righteous. whos bringin the chips an dip?

errr, maybe it's BYO (bring your own)....I'm thinking that some will blow right through the book, while others (me

) will savor a chapter a night before sleeping! Sure I will..........

durinsbane2244 · 07-14-2005, 02:51 PM

man, now i regret blowin all me cash, i cant afford chips an dip!

CURSE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EarthBound · 07-14-2005, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by durinsbane2244

man, now i regret blowin all me cash, i cant afford chips an dip!

CURSE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got ya covered......baked tortia chips and salsa for everyone! *slips Corona's into purse*

Spock · 07-14-2005, 03:30 PM

...puts some Stolli in the freezer, and looks up the number for the local pizza delivery.......

06-22-2005, 08:03 AM	#141
EarthBound Lady Tipple & Queen of Blessed Thistle Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: I've been told it's all in my head Posts: 916	wow, less than a month and we'll have the new book to read....perfect read for summer! I get three weeks off this summer...perfect __________________ Beer + Pizza = N'uff said Happy to be here The HACBR has been alerted to my postings…..Hobbits Against Constant Beer References Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Ben Franklin I want my Mooter T-Shirt!

07-12-2005, 09:11 AM	#142
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	Four more days! I'm on the waiting list at my local library for it...I got on months and months ago (they made the entry for the book and it just says "in processing" or something like that). I'm #36 and I discovered there are 54 HP HBP books being purchased by the system (a handful of the county libraries). I'm guaranteed to get it on day 1. Yay! I'd also like to get my hands on a German version. I'm thinking a good way to work on my Deutsch skills would be to read the German one along with English. Has anybody try that with books? __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

07-12-2005, 09:20 AM	#143
EarthBound Lady Tipple & Queen of Blessed Thistle Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: I've been told it's all in my head Posts: 916	ugh! I hadn't thought about where I was going to purchase it! OH NO!!! There's a Borders about an hour from where I live....but I suppose they'll be sold out immediately....or not...you can never tell who's paying attention to such things... __________________ Beer + Pizza = N'uff said Happy to be here The HACBR has been alerted to my postings…..Hobbits Against Constant Beer References Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Ben Franklin I want my Mooter T-Shirt!

07-12-2005, 11:39 AM	#145
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	I too am hooked on HP. I watched the SS the other day for my thirteenth time (on tv) and ordered the new book five months ago. The merchant advised me that it will ship in four days. Yippie!! __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

07-12-2005, 10:14 PM	#147
gollum9630 Canadian Guy. Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: The true North Strong and Free Posts: 1,513	http://www.canada.com/vancouver/thep...f-eab280db9c0b ahh to be one of these 14 lucky jerks __________________ "Canadians are so apathetic, but, what are you gonna do about it" -Glen Foster Wierd Harry Potter quotes the old nintendo duck hunt game Lemmings Swron Random Homer Simpson Quotes

07-12-2005, 10:18 PM	#148
Elanor's Angel Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Hiding under my bed reading LOTR at 1:43am, Middle earth (Seattle WA) Posts: 1,239	Hp!!!! I love Hp! I've read the series almost 8 times! I'm spending the night at the book store to get my copy in 3 days! (Today does not count) I simply cannot wait! 672 pages of HP goodness! (I'm also dressing up as Fleur Delecour sp?) __________________ ~And the Geek shall inherit the Earth! Vote Trolls' Bane/Elanor's Angel 2008!!!

07-13-2005, 09:54 AM	#149
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	..ahem.....

07-13-2005, 02:40 PM	#150
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	yea, im goin to books a million, it has an all night party type thingy, i just pre-bought mine 10 minutes ago, yay for nerdom, huzzah! __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

07-13-2005, 02:45 PM	#151
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	I'm checking my mail each day next week. When we all get the book and read it, we can have a good old party. The thing is you do want to 'savor' it after waiting so long. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

07-13-2005, 04:11 PM	#152
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Well, mine is to arrive on Saturday AM by "brown" from Amazon! I just hope it gets here early so I can read all day and not all night! But I plan to read through it as the mood moves me (and then re-read it to savor it and extract all the clues, though that may take some time and many re-readings!) . __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

07-13-2005, 06:38 PM	#153
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	Veeery soon, we shall own this book . And I will have three siblings at home to share it with . __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."

07-13-2005, 07:35 PM	#154
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	so, spock, am i invited? __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

07-14-2005, 12:06 PM	#155
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Indeed. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

07-14-2005, 01:42 PM	#156
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	righteous. whos bringin the chips an dip? __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

07-14-2005, 02:51 PM	#158
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	man, now i regret blowin all me cash, i cant afford chips an dip! CURSE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

07-14-2005, 03:30 PM	#160
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	...puts some Stolli in the freezer, and looks up the number for the local pizza delivery....... __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."