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Post by Gooly bongoo! on Sept 13, 2006 11:16:23 GMT -5
I just wanted to know if harry potter is so popular how many people like it here? I guess loads but just curious.
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Post by Islander on Sept 13, 2006 13:14:30 GMT -5
Wow - 'forever' seems to be getting shorter and shorter each year...
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Post by Gideon on Sept 13, 2006 13:31:04 GMT -5
I like the Harry Potter books, although not as much as I did in the beginning.
I like the films, but I don't think they're as good as the books. My favourite Harry Potter film was the first one.
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Post by adam on Sept 13, 2006 13:41:51 GMT -5
Wow - 'forever' seems to be getting shorter and shorter each year... ?
I like the books for the good cannon and thick plot with the well deveoped charecters and its easy-reading ability and its all-ages factor. The films aree just a chance to see one persons representaion of the things in the books. I dont like them for the plot etc. they are a bit weak.
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Post by Jesi on Sept 13, 2006 13:46:09 GMT -5
The books are far better than the movies but the third movie from the four movies there are is the best in IMO.
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Post by lazerxangel on Sept 13, 2006 18:55:04 GMT -5
"HELL YER!!!!" ;D
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Post by Mac on Sept 14, 2006 3:46:26 GMT -5
I cant judge what I havent really experienced. If I havent read the books or seen more than 15 minutes out of all the movies combined, I have no standing to judge.
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Post by HailStorm on Sept 14, 2006 5:21:22 GMT -5
I used to really love Harry Potter but now I'm kind of bored of it. I don't know whether I'll bother to see the next film. I'll read the next book but that's only because I want to know how it ends and I'm too stubborn to get this far in the series and not read the last book. The only way I'd not finish a series of books was if I couldn't get hold of the other books anywhere or if the series had gone so far down hill to actually be painful and irritating to read (I'm looking at YOU, Patricia Cornwell ¬¬)
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Post by Gideon on Sept 14, 2006 5:47:37 GMT -5
I used to really love Harry Potter but now I'm kind of bored of it. That's kind of similar to how I feel. I still like the books, but I'm just not as interested in them as I was when I was 12, 13, 14.
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Post by lazerxangel on Sept 14, 2006 18:35:28 GMT -5
The only way I'd not finish a series of books was if I couldn't get hold of the other books anywhere or if the series had gone so far down hill to actually be painful and irritating to read (I'm looking at YOU, Patricia Cornwell ¬¬) What about A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket? Have you read that series? It's a pretty good series. Although at the end of each book I really want to smack the author really hard for ending it that way.
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Post by Gideon on Sept 14, 2006 18:39:20 GMT -5
What about A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket? Have you read that series? I've read them, and I really like them, although I prefer the earlier ones to the later ones (I still like the later ones, but the earlier books are my favourites.) They're probably aimed at people a bit younger than me, but I still find them fun to read. I keep wondering what's going to happen in the thirteenth and final book. I can't imagine the author would allow the Baudelaires to finally be caught by Count Olaf, but then, the books generally finish on an unhappy note, and I would expect the last book to keep up the trend. So if the Baudelaires aren't captured, they probably won't exactly live happily ever after at the end of it, either, unless the author turns things around.
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Post by lazerxangel on Sept 14, 2006 18:42:14 GMT -5
Well, Lemony Snicket's trying to break the archetypal pattern of a "happily ever after" so what I'm thinking is that, because he loves making people die*, the Baudelaires are most likely going to die, or have an unfortunate ending.
*Have you noticed in practically every book, their guardian ends up dying? O.o plus, at the end of each book, there's a small picture that gives a small clue about the next book. These are just random little tips my friend gave me. She owns the entire series.
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Post by Gideon on Sept 14, 2006 18:46:12 GMT -5
so what I'm thinking is that, because he loves making people die*, the Baudelaires are most likely going to die, or have an unfortunate ending. In some of the books, he has made references to the Baudelaires being alive years after these events have taken place, so I think it's more likely they're going to have some form of unfortunate ending (surely Count Olaf will be taken out of the picture, though? If he was still after them, then the series would have to continue, surely?) You're right, some of their guardians meet with unfortunate events themselves. I like the pictures at the back of the books, and I like Lemony Snicket's letters to his editor. I like reading them, although in some of the books, the letters are practically unreadable, except for a few words here and there. Do you think the Baudelaires will meet Lemony Snicket himself in the thirteenth book?
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Post by lazerxangel on Sept 14, 2006 18:50:18 GMT -5
Do you think the Baudelaires will meet Lemony Snicket himself in the thirteenth book? O.o Oh wow, that's an interesting thought. Maybe he'll explain to us who Bertha is...you know? The one he always dedicates the books to. I think her name's Bertha...it starts with a 'b.'
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Post by Gideon on Sept 14, 2006 18:59:51 GMT -5
I think her name's Bertha...it starts with a 'b.' Nearly right - it's Beatrice. Sorry to be nitpicky. But they met his sister at the end of the twelfth book - I assume it's his sister; her name was Kit Snicket - so I thought it was possible they might actually meet Lemony in the thirteenth one. Duncan and Isadora had been about to tell the Baudelaires all about him in one of the previous books, but then they got cut off. I wish they could have got further.
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