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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 26 Jun 2006 06:22 PM |
| Eeeekkk!!!! |
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 26 Jun 2006 06:43 PM |
*senses a hidden meaning in this post*
*eyes Aranel* |
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 26 Jun 2006 09:08 PM |
Just two?
Hmm. Disappointing. |
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 26 Jun 2006 09:13 PM |
| Hope it's Harry. I really can't bear his deus ex machina heroics. |
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 26 Jun 2006 09:15 PM |
| I hope its Frodo....opps. |
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Posted: 26 Jun 2006 10:29 PM |
| Oh my GOD! I almost care! |
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 27 Jun 2006 01:30 AM |
My my my... when did all the Harry Potter haters show up?
*shrugs* I still enjoy the books... so, whatever.
As for killing off some main characters... that doesn't bother me so much. ...as long as it isn't just because she can, or to do it just to make a point that this is the last book.
what -I- really want to know, is if Snape is going to redeem himself. (I'm still betting on Snape or Malfoy turning against Voldy) |
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 27 Jun 2006 03:00 AM |
Noo! Not the kids! Why must it always be the kids?
*Sigh* Ah well, we'll find out eventually.. I know I shall likely weep, but it'll be dang good weeping none the less.
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 27 Jun 2006 03:59 AM |
Just two?
Hmm. Disappointing.
True. :\ I wasn't hoping for something excessive, but it IS the final book, and there ARE plenty of annoying characters. >:(
j/k |
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 27 Jun 2006 08:32 AM |
what -I- really want to know, is if Snape is going to redeem himself. (I'm still betting on Snape or Malfoy turning against Voldy)
Snape is obviously a bad guy, trying to be a good guy, pretending to be a bad guy. Obviously this will come out in the last book and in the end, people still won't like him. (see what a prize winning personality can do for you, boys and girls?)
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 27 Jun 2006 10:09 AM |
This is the worst thing she could ever do!
WHy? why?
Oh dear god why is she writing another gorram book!
This is the most depressing news all year.... i may have to suicide
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 27 Jun 2006 11:27 AM |
Why all the Potter hating I wonder? Reminds me of a comment made by my wifes aunt, she'd read the book and said that she found it infantile, to which I responded by informing her that she was a 60 year old woman, and perhaps a trifle beyond the scope of the books target audience. Deus ex machina heroics - it's a work of childrens fiction, I personally haven't seen anything in it that is more excessive than many other stories (see T.S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia - it all takes place in a land beyond a wardrobe, and time does not pass in the real world whilst you are there).
Personally I just enjoy them for what they are, light hearted fun for children to read - anyone reading them seriously I refer you to comment about Aunt above . |
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 27 Jun 2006 02:04 PM |
Snape is obviously a bad guy, trying to be a good guy, pretending to be a bad guy.
*chuckles* ...ok, I found that rather amusing, but I'm not entirely sure it means what you think it means
Inconcievable...
*realizes they just went off on a tangent*
*also now wonders how many people here hate the Princess Bride*
*thinks that anyone here who DOES hate the Princess Bride, should be cast out, or smited... or something*
*realizes they just went on yet annother tangent, but if you dont know what -that- quote [paraphrase actualy] was from, I'm not going to tell you* |
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 27 Jun 2006 02:16 PM |
Snape is obviously a bad guy, trying to be a good guy, pretending to be a bad guy.
*chuckles* ...ok, I found that rather amusing, but I'm not entirely sure it means what you think it means
Inconcievable...
*realizes they just went off on a tangent*
*also now wonders how many people here hate the Princess Bride*
*thinks that anyone here who DOES hate the Princess Bride, should be cast out, or smited... or something*
*realizes they just went on yet annother tangent, but if you dont know what -that- quote [paraphrase actualy] was from, I'm not going to tell you*
The Princess Bride was, and is, fantastic. Full stop.
I have been reading the Harry Potter books to my kids. As they get progressively darker and more scary, I sadly wonder whether I'm going to have to wait a couple years to finish. The same goes for the movies. And though they are kids' books, I come down firmly on the -love them- side of this discussion. |
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Posted: 27 Jun 2006 02:18 PM |
All I'm interested in is when the last book will come out. I already suspected that she'd kill off Harry. I think he's the carrier of one of the hexes (what's the name again? the ones that are on the objects too), hence his connection to Voldemort.
Now where's my book? |
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 27 Jun 2006 02:44 PM |
All I'm interested in is when the last book will come out. I already suspected that she'd kill off Harry. I think he's the carrier of one of the hexes (what's the name again? the ones that are on the objects too), hence his connection to Voldemort.
Now where's my book?
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 27 Jun 2006 03:51 PM |
Just because it's a children's book does not mean it can resort to using poor plot devices unscathed from criticism. When I read the series to my daughter when she's old enough I feel like there are parts I will have to set the book aside and explain some things as though she were watching an R rated movie.
"OK, here is the part where the phoenix flies down and saves the day. I want to reassure you that everything will be fine once we get past this ridiculous way to move a story along. But you need to know that just because the author did it here does not mean you can do it too. It's not an acceptable way to behave."
*distributes pikes upon which to place my head after this next*
And just because fantasy classics adopt the "bolt from the blue" strategy doesn't legitimize it. I feel there are a lot better fantasy authors now who don't need to rely on the King of the Eagles to save the day every time.
But to be fair I did enjoy the Goblet of Fire (as far as I've read in the series) much more than the first two and I expect good things from the last three as well.
And, yes, Princess Bride is fantastic |
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 27 Jun 2006 04:00 PM |
But to bx fair I did enjoy the Goblet of Fire (as far as I've read in the series) much more than the first two and I expect good things from the last three as well.
Of course - starting from the fourth book you can actually see a plot forming, instead of just random events in Hogwarts (supposedly). |
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 27 Jun 2006 04:06 PM |
I like how Rowling changed the formula in the Half-Blood Prince and, to some extent, in the Order fo the Pheonix. The first three novels were very similar, with Harry and the gang suspecting one thing and suddenly, at the end, something entirely differnet turns otu to be the truth. In the Goblet of Fire, the story begins to grow along with the protaganists, and we come to suspect that the adults, even Dumbledore, don't have all the answers. Then the Order of the Pheonix comes, and along with it, a death that brings home the seriousness of what is going on. Then comes the Half-Blood prince, which turns everything on it's ear. The old formula is destoryed, and the revelations at the end are not so much a head smacking "I didn't expect that" but a incredulious "I can't believe that!"
I susuect the last book will be something completely unique from the other three. Rather then relying on formula, I see Rowling as having established a formula, making the reader comfortable with it, then completely changing the rules. For me, it was effective, as I allowed Rowling to pull me into expecting the formula when reading the Order of the Pheonix and the Half-Blood Prince. Even with the bad end that the Goblet of Fire had, I still thought that the surprise ending would make things clear again. Not so with the Half-Blood Prince. I am still reeling from that one.
Yup, definatly good novels, and ones that, I think, grow up along side the protagonists and the generation of children that read these books. |
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 27 Jun 2006 05:02 PM |
| What people fail to realise, is that the villain in all of these books - is just a taller Romulus, and thus alot of these ideas get swung by me (since my character is copyrighted). So when she approached me ten years ago and gave me this nonsense of killing off one character I was furious.I wanted to kill FIVE characters at the end of the last book,- hell I wanted all the books burned!But in the end, level heads won out the day as well as astute bargaining.In return for two hens, and a rooster - we settled on only killing two. |
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Posted: 27 Jun 2006 05:47 PM |
What people fail to realise, is that the villain in all of these books - is just a taller Romulus, and thus alot of these ideas get swung by me (since my character is copyrighted). So when she approached me ten years ago and gave me this nonsense of killing off one character I was furious.I wanted to kill FIVE characters at the end of the last book,- hell I wanted all the books burned!But in the end, level heads won out the day as well as astute bargaining.In return for two hens, and a rooster - we settled on only killing two.
*giggles*
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 27 Jun 2006 07:35 PM |
Harry Potter is just a taller Romulus?
I *knew* it! |
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 27 Jun 2006 07:45 PM |
Spoiler Alert!
[Moderator's note: Removed possible spoiler for anyone who has not read the Half-Blood Prince. Thanks for the link, Axon, it's great!]
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Re: *Gasp!*
Posted: 27 Jun 2006 07:56 PM |
aaaaahhhhh!!!!
*quickly covers eyes and reassures self*
I most certainly did not see any spoilers of the latest books in the series. Nope. Didn't see anything about Dumbledore or Snape and what happened in sixth book.
*blissfully pretends nothing happened* |
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