Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Page 9

durinsbane2244 · 07-15-2005, 08:00 PM

Huzzah For Earthbound And Spock!!!!!!

Slutations To Freeloaders Across The Globe, My Brothers!!!!!!!!

Spock · 07-15-2005, 09:45 PM

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?

Mercutio · 07-15-2005, 10:10 PM

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.

Millane · 07-16-2005, 08:06 AM

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

sun-star · 07-16-2005, 02:45 PM

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?

Spock · 07-16-2005, 07:03 PM

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!

durinsbane2244 · 07-16-2005, 09:03 PM

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!!!!!

tolkienfan · 07-16-2005, 09:49 PM

I just finished it.

I think I'm in shock.

Linaewen · 07-17-2005, 01:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tolkienfan

I just finished it.

I think I'm in shock.

Hear hear.

How long till the next one comes out?

I'm dying to read it! *twitches*

Falagar · 07-17-2005, 05:05 AM

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.

Telcontar_Dunedain · 07-17-2005, 08:08 AM

Just finished it. I was surprised by the ending, I thought it would go on for a bit longer.

Spock · 07-17-2005, 12:08 PM

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.

tolkienfan · 07-17-2005, 02:16 PM

I liked it a bit better then the 5th one too.

I can't believe he's not going back to Hogwarts. He has to!

Mercutio · 07-17-2005, 03:21 PM

I finished it about 11:15 last night (had to practice organ, work on a bedspread and other assorted things). Sunstar -

I wonder if Dumbledore is going to do a Gandalf...and come back in book 7?

And the first thing I thought of when they introduced the new lionlike Minister was Aslan & Narnia

BeardofPants · 07-17-2005, 03:23 PM

Actually, I'm glad that he's not going back to hogwarts.... I enjoyed the book, but it really needs something more... fresh... We've done hogwarts - to death, I might add.

Can't say I was that surprised that Dumbledore was killed. I was wondering how JK Rowling would sever all of Harry's ties so that he could finally go out and take on Voldemort. Remember that she killed of Sirius - so Dumbledore shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. I also suspect that he (dumbledore) put snape up to killing him as he knew that Harry wouldn't leave hogwarts otherwise. What made me suspicious was that I couldn't imagine dumbledore pleading with snape -it seemed out of character. And I suspect that snape is still a double agent to voldemort, and killing dumbledore makes it look like he's even more faithful to voldemort now. If he killed him. Perhaps dumbledore was dying anyway from that shite he drank?

Mercutio · 07-17-2005, 03:41 PM

The next book won't come out for about 2 years. Rowling is starting it the end of this year. (From an interview).

tolkienfan · 07-17-2005, 03:44 PM

I thought each book was supposed to be one year at Hogwarts. Maybe he'll go back briefly sometime in the book. I'll be mad if he doesn't!

durinsbane2244 · 07-17-2005, 07:39 PM

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!)

Mercutio · 07-17-2005, 09:17 PM

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.

Spock · 07-17-2005, 10:24 PM

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.

07-15-2005, 08:00 PM	#161
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	Huzzah For Earthbound And Spock!!!!!! Slutations To Freeloaders Across The Globe, My Brothers!!!!!!!! __________________ 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...

07-15-2005, 09:45 PM	#162
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	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? __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

07-15-2005, 10:10 PM	#163
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	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. __________________ 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.

07-16-2005, 08:06 AM	#164
Millane The Dude Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: at the altar of my ego Posts: 1,685	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 __________________ Ill heal your wounds, ill set you free, Last edited by Millane : 07-16-2005 at 08:11 AM.

07-16-2005, 02:45 PM	#165
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	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? Last edited by sun-star : 07-16-2005 at 02:46 PM.

07-16-2005, 07:03 PM	#166
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	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! __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

07-16-2005, 09:03 PM	#167
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	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!!!!! __________________ 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...

07-17-2005, 05:05 AM	#170
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	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. __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle.

07-17-2005, 08:08 AM	#171
Telcontar_Dunedain Warrior of the House of Hador Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 4,651	Just finished it. I was surprised by the ending, I thought it would go on for a bit longer. __________________ Then Huor spoke and said: "Yet if it stands but a little while, then out of your house shall come the hope of Elves and Men. This I say to you, lord, with the eyes of death: though we part here for ever, and I shall not look on your white walls again, from you and me a new star shall arise. Farewell!" The Silmarillion, Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Page 230

07-17-2005, 12:08 PM	#172
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	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. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

07-17-2005, 03:41 PM	#176
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	The next book won't come out for about 2 years. Rowling is starting it the end of this year. (From an interview).

07-17-2005, 07:39 PM	#178
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	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!) __________________ 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...

07-17-2005, 09:17 PM	#179
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	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. __________________ 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. Last edited by Mercutio : 07-17-2005 at 09:18 PM.

07-17-2005, 10:24 PM	#180
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	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. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."