07-15-2005, 08:00 PM | #161 |
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Huzzah For Earthbound And Spock!!!!!!
Slutations To Freeloaders Across The Globe, My Brothers!!!!!!!!
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07-15-2005, 09:45 PM | #162 |
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Sad News
Got tracking information from B&N and when checking shipment found they only shipped another book ordered at the same time (Jan '05) but did NOTship HP. I've an e-mail complaint off to them but who knows when?
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07-15-2005, 10:10 PM | #163 |
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Only a few more hours, that's all the time we've got. A few more hours...
I reserved a copy in our library system back in January (whatever made me look for it in January...or our library to already have entered them in the system?). I can pick it up at 10:00 tomorrow morning. No wasting sleep on this book.
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07-16-2005, 08:06 AM | #164 |
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bout a hundred pages in, this book could not have come at a worse time... for once i was finally getting into wheel of time (7th book ha YAY! beat my previous best of 6th ) only to have to stop to read this
i was one of those people who got up and rushed in at 9.01 am to pick it up well not really, i think i was still drunk at that time, but you better believe i told mother dearest to go down and buy it for me... anywho went and bought another pack of cigs and 2L of Big M so ill see you all tommorrow morning btw im deadly serious i saw one of them Inferious today, before id even started reading the book i was at the supermarket with a friend and it scared the **** out of both of us
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07-16-2005, 02:45 PM | #165 |
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So, anyone ready to talk about it yet (with spoilers of course)? And, knowing the tendency of this forum, does the first person to spot a Narnia/LOTR parallel get a prize?
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07-16-2005, 07:03 PM | #166 |
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An owl delivered it.
Today at the post office I had a package slip. It was THE BOOK. Sent via UPS and directed to my PO Box, and B&N weren't able to tell me where it was. I believe in owls!
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07-16-2005, 09:03 PM | #167 |
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yay, whoo hoo, i just spent a whole day reading and im almost 3/4 done, wait, what am i doing wasting my time here? curse you all, there was no chips!!!!!
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07-16-2005, 09:49 PM | #168 | |
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I just finished it.
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07-17-2005, 05:05 AM | #170 |
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Didn't get to read much during the day, but the night was well spent. Finished it as the morning arrived; a nice book and much better than the last one. Didn't leave me breathless or craving for more or anything like that, but am looking foreward to the final installment.
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07-17-2005, 08:08 AM | #171 |
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Just finished it. I was surprised by the ending, I thought it would go on for a bit longer.
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07-17-2005, 12:08 PM | #172 |
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Hooray
So we never go to the post office on Saturday. My wife goes and there's a parcel notice. It's from B&N, once home I open it and its HP&HBP !! Meanwhile B&N says they didn't ship it, it had a label underneath from them but was then sent by United Parcel Service and then re-directed back to the Post Office. Personally, I think it was delivered by OWL.
I'm going to savor it and read a bit each day.
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07-17-2005, 02:16 PM | #173 | |
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I liked it a bit better then the 5th one too.
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I finished it about 11:15 last night (had to practice organ, work on a bedspread and other assorted things). Sunstar -
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07-17-2005, 03:23 PM | #175 | |
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07-17-2005, 03:41 PM | #176 |
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The next book won't come out for about 2 years. Rowling is starting it the end of this year. (From an interview).
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07-17-2005, 03:44 PM | #177 | |
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07-17-2005, 07:39 PM | #178 |
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I don't know how to do the spoiler thing, i guess you just give it a backround the same color as the text, but someone please tell me so i can talk here!
(i finished it at 11:46 of the night i got it, yay!)
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07-17-2005, 09:17 PM | #179 |
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Durinsbane...you type [ spoiler ] and [ /spoiler ] like any other html code. Just get rid of the spaces in that. To really see, click "quote" on anyone's post that has spoiler text.
Any guess as to who R.A.B. is? The consensus elsewhere on the internet is that it is Regulus A. Black, Siruis's brother.
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07-17-2005, 10:24 PM | #180 |
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Well, so far I find the book a step up. Or as Emeril would say "kicked up a notch". It's still entertaining, but with more adult subjects and reflects the growth of the parties involved.
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