07-21-2007, 04:52 PM | #1 |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I'm not saying anything for a while, in spoiler or not, so don't worry.
Anyone else finished yet?
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07-21-2007, 07:22 PM | #2 |
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oh, come on, give us a summary! *pleading look*
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07-21-2007, 08:28 PM | #3 |
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I got my book at about 12:20 AM and started readin...I finished around 4 o'clock this afternoon..of course i was takin breaks every now and then cause my dad needed my help, but i'm pretty sure if i had read without stopping i could've finished around lunchtime or earlier
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07-21-2007, 08:39 PM | #4 |
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as to you, Rian, it's against every moral principle in my body.
and as to the mighty-half elf, i got mine and got home around 1:10 (lines ) and finished around 9:47. very good read.
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07-21-2007, 08:42 PM | #5 |
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Finished.
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07-21-2007, 09:15 PM | #6 |
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Mine came mid-morning and I finished about half an hour ago. And I'm sayn' nuttin'.
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07-21-2007, 09:21 PM | #7 | |
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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07-21-2007, 10:18 PM | #8 |
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oh, do you want an opinion/review? you said summary! i wasn't going to tell anything...i thought it was good. it was a very clever way of tying together everything she said about the "love" business without being corny.
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07-21-2007, 10:32 PM | #9 |
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When I said "summary", I hadn't read the blogs yet.
Review, summary, either or both I'd like to know what you guys think of it, and I don't mind knowing how it came out. I'd like to know more about Snape.
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
07-21-2007, 10:43 PM | #10 |
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when you say "know", you mean tell you everything? or just give you a general what-happens-thingy?
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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... |
07-21-2007, 11:33 PM | #11 |
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Finished, and heartily enjoyed
P.S. I thought the last sentence or two was a little corny, but I don't know how else she could've ended it It'll be interesting to see the movie in a few years.
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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07-22-2007, 10:05 AM | #13 |
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I loved it! Not so much the last couple of chapters - I still really dislike Snape and I didn't actually understand the ending. The epilogue was cute though
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spoilers...
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I finished long ago but haven't been able to get to Entmoot until now. I liked it,
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07-23-2007, 10:40 AM | #16 |
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Finished it last saturday and I loved it! Its very well written. Though I found the ending rather soft.
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07-30-2007, 03:06 AM | #17 |
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I was dissapointed. As the last book in the series she really ought to have used the page space more carefully and wirtten it stronger.
It focused too narrowly on the three main characters, you end up with very little idea of what everybody else is doing back at the school/ministry/wherever. The whole wand business is full of plotholes and completely clashes with everything she has previously said about wands. The Deathly Hallows don't actually have that much to do with any of the rest of the story. And the epilogue is predictable, sappy, uninformative and does nothing to effectively end the story that the books were telling, at best it reads like the beginning of a new series which we know there won't be. It was entertaining, and will probably be quite good as a movie a few years from now, but as a book it's kind of mediocre.
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07-30-2007, 07:16 PM | #18 |
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ITA with Willow Oran. After doing the whole series, I thought I had reasonably low expectations, but...
As a writer she cheats cheats cheats. It's annoying.
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07-31-2007, 05:51 PM | #19 |
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oh. there will probably be a new series. once she misses writing and her income starts to dwindle, give it about 10 or 15 years, there'll be a new series.
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07-31-2007, 09:11 PM | #20 |
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yes, i believe she "didn't disagree" that there would be more writings about other things in the HP world.
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