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Post by Dameon on Jul 14, 2005 11:35:56 GMT 11
Harry Potter requires an initial suspension of disbelief. Once you've done that it's an enjoyable story. It's no great intellectual piece, but the characters are fun and the story is interesting. You care about what happens, and that's the most important thing to me.
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Post by Miky on Jul 14, 2005 12:21:35 GMT 11
Yeah that is so tru. And as for conforming I roll my eyes just because its popular doesnt mean its no good, infact I would say that means it is good. and I hated the movies so u cant judge the books on them. If I was u tho I would prolly start reading from the 3rd book onwards.
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Post by Unykorn on Jul 14, 2005 12:56:16 GMT 11
My favourite is the third book - Sirius!
My least favourite is the fifth book, but not just because Sirius dies, Harry changes so much and he's not the modest boy he is in all the other books! And well, I think his change in character is just too sudden. Sure he's growing up and all, but it should be more gradual.
But I still like the fifth book a lot! "That's everyone in the family!" "What are Fred and I, next-door neighbours"
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Post by brydie on Jul 14, 2005 13:21:25 GMT 11
yeah, the only parts i like about the fifth book is the fred-and-george parts...pml, i love them so much  i have to say my favourite is either the third or fourth book...the forth is great but there are a lot of parts that annoy me. like rita. gah. evil woman! but the third one...sirius...yay!
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Post by avra on Jul 14, 2005 13:55:52 GMT 11
It's going to be damn quiet here on the weekend, isnt it?  |
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Post by shadowoutcast on Jul 14, 2005 14:15:57 GMT 11
Yeah that is so tru. And as for conforming I roll my eyes just because its popular doesnt mean its no good, infact I would say that means it is good. and I hated the movies so u cant judge the books on them. If I was u tho I would prolly start reading from the 3rd book onwards. I never said it wasn't good I just... it doesn't strike me as a book to place on my reading list, and before watching the films I read some stuff about it on the net and could get into it (as in no vidualisation of which I work on. While read books I create the world of the writing in my mine) I think the series is fantasic and I love the effort pot into it but just not for me. I enjoyed the movies they were very visually pleasing. As for starting a book somewhere in the middle I'll get so confused... If I was to start anything it has to be from number 1 I just can't help it. once again I never said it was bad |
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Post by Emerald on Jul 14, 2005 15:53:57 GMT 11
i understand a bit. I read Harry Potter when i was 15, just after Goblet of Fire came out, and previous to that i had no desire to. I stupidly thought they were too childish for me (i know i was only 15 so it was even more silly) but one of my friends was reading it and i thought what the hell, i'm going to give it a go and i've never looked back. I think i read all 4 in a few weeks. Between books I had this wierd excited feeling that wouldn't go away until i'd started on the next book. I had the same thing when i finished Ashling and realised that there was a fourth book out.
Hehe, i've just been skimming through book 5 to all my fav bits (i ran out of time to read the whole thing before saturday). I've forgotten how good some of those scenes are. Gotta love Fred and George. And that scene where Harry's talking to McGonagall about becoming an Auror!
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Post by Dameon on Jul 14, 2005 16:48:56 GMT 11
Yeah! I loved that scene! Professor McGonagall is my favourite Hogwarts teacher!
She's so tough, but she really loves her students. I just love that scene where she turns all her tough teacherness onto someone other than a student. That was cool!
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Post by brydie on Jul 14, 2005 19:57:52 GMT 11
i love professor mcgonagall too  please don't pounce on me anoyone, but it is my belief that she is the only character in the whole series (so far) that is not, in fact, one-dimensional. *winces*
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Post by avra on Jul 17, 2005 0:26:56 GMT 11
My god. No-one has posted in this forum all day. Are you all too busy reading? |
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Post by Dameon on Jul 17, 2005 11:23:46 GMT 11
*laughs at Brydie's comment*
I think you may find another character is VERY multidimensional after reading, Brydie. Very... frighteningly. HUGELY!
*is still slightly cross*
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Post by Swallow on Jul 17, 2005 11:55:07 GMT 11
You know what, i might have to say the 6th book is my favourite... lemme get it back off my mother to reread and i'll tell you if it is, maybe it was the long wait, but i did enjoy it a lot!
I suppose i'm going to get veggies thrown at me now...
And Brydz, i've always liked McGonnagal too... my fav character has always been Lupin tho, and Sirius. I really wish we would have gotten a chance to see more of the Maurauders together, because i think i would have liked James as well. Just the interaction between Sirius and Lupin always made me grin, and that little snippet in book 5 wasn't enough because it showed the ugly side to James, i really wanted more... oh well, live with what you get
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Post by brydie on Jul 17, 2005 12:00:26 GMT 11
*cries* EVERYONE BUT ME HAS READ IT!!! Dad wants to buy it in melb with some stupid voucher so he doesnt have spend his precious money. money schmoney. now i have to wait until next week. *commits suicide*
*contemplates the meaning of kayt's post*
Is it one of the Dursleys? It is, isn't it?
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Post by Kaylan-R on Jul 18, 2005 16:52:06 GMT 11
Nope. It took me on hour to read it. YAY ME!!
I was quite surprised that it had all the stuff about *someone's* past, though I'm glad
it was told now or I would of gotton bored.
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Post by Rilla on Jul 18, 2005 17:20:14 GMT 11
I think i'm going to say the 6th books is my fave now... And i'm re-reading it...
*hugs Brydie* Soon, dear, soon.
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Post by Kaylan-R on Jul 18, 2005 17:38:12 GMT 11
I'm gonna have to re read it too because I allways seem to forget something small
that's actually something big. *sigh*
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Post by Unykorn on Jul 25, 2005 22:01:41 GMT 11
Hehe, i've just been skimming through book 5 to all my fav bits (i ran out of time to read the whole thing before saturday). I've forgotten how good some of those scenes are. Gotta love Fred and George. And that scene where Harry's talking to McGonagall about becoming an Auror! I love that bit too! And how Flitwick ropes off a corner of Fred & George's swamp because it was a good bit of spellwork... And the bit where Sprout gives Gryffindor 20 (I think) points when Harry passes her the watering can. God, I'm laughing just writing it! ;D |
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Post by Netty on Jul 26, 2005 20:42:02 GMT 11
At the moment I would have to say the 6th book is my least favourite- mainly because nothing happened the whole way through then right at the end that horrible thing happened!!! I was pretty devastated. I know that is a really simplistic way of seeing it but I probably will stay simplistic until I get a chance to read it again (ie after my brothers AND mum have both fiished with my copy, ie in about 17 months time!) Rereading things always helps, doesn't it? Anyway it seems like a lot of people really like PoA which I kind of agree with (although the movie was no good) but I think overall GoF is the best- it has the most action the whole way through and is really exciting. Still recovering from the shock of the half Blood Prince!!!!
Netty
Ooh Unykorn I really like your avatar... so cute
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Post by Rushton on Jul 26, 2005 22:32:25 GMT 11
My fave was the POA. Tightly written, with a great ending as well as Sirius and Lupin!!! Don't get me wrong I've enjoyed the rest of the books heaps as well. I just think that they could do with tighter editing. It's as if the publishers treat every word that's written as sacred and don't cut out anything. OoTP is almost unwieldy too much reflection and angst and not enough action to further the plot. HBP is good though. I enjoyed it muchly.
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Post by shadowoutcast on Jul 26, 2005 23:28:53 GMT 11
My girlfriend sister had read it and she was so depressed afterward that Toria had to keep her company at night. Although her sis couldn't sleep so she toid Tor the whole story. Toria's preety happy with the turn of events because she doesn't have time to read it her self
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Post by Kaylan-R on Jul 27, 2005 18:19:54 GMT 11
I thought it was okay. It was good how it introduced the Horcruxes and Tom Riddles past,
but that's about it really. There wasn't much quidditch and not much action. I am re reading HPATGOF because the new movie is commming out and I have to say that it is the only book with heaps of action in it.
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Post by Ceirwan on Aug 21, 2005 23:05:02 GMT 11
Okay... deep breath....
Order of the Phoenix was my favourite.
There. I said it.
And I LOVED book six.
I've read so many posts bagging out both of them. But I love it when the silliness gets cut out (as much as I love the silliness) and it gets dark and complicated.
I love Harry when he's moody and older.
So there. :>
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Post by Unykorn on Aug 23, 2005 17:19:34 GMT 11
I'm reading the fourth book again too, kaylan ... I want all the images burned aginst my brain before the movie comes along and ruins it all  Moody Harry. it's good sometimes, coz he seems a little more real. But then, I also like the nice modest Harry... |
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i have to say my favourite is either the third or fourth book...the forth is great but there are a lot of parts that annoy me. like rita. gah. evil woman! but the third one...sirius...yay! 
please don't pounce on me anoyone, but it is my belief that she is the only character in the whole series (so far) that is not, in fact, one-dimensional. *winces*
