have just started it...I am ssooo excited.
XXX XXX DTS Dave
Anybody still reading HPATDH?
I finished ab-o-u-tnnnn4.30 pm Saturday. Anybody beat that?
I also did the laundry and went shopping earlier in the day.
have just started it...I am ssooo excited.
XXX XXX DTS Dave
Well, I didn't start until about 10am.
So, my willie's bigger than yours if we're measuring the speed of the read.
But if we're measuring sheer geeky commitment - queuing to pick the book up at midnight and reading through till the sunrise - then you are welcome to that crown.
I'm still gathering the botheredness to read the first one. Not going well so-far...
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
I'm well slow, I started at 01:00 Saturday morning, finished it at 21:00 Saturday night, but in between I was playing "Jamies Taxi Service" and ferrying people about for a couple of hours.
I'd say It took me 18 hours!
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The only reason I ever read the novels was because they became a cultural phenomenon, and it was difficult to avoid situations in which not understanding the references left one a little behind. I read all the books then published, don't recall how many, after the first film was released but before it came on TV, which was where I saw it. Took me 3 or 4 days, iirc. So, not exactly a chore. Unlike reading, say, War and peace which is much harder going!
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War and Peace Is Not Difficult! - I finished it in a week while I was on holiday..
I'm a real slowcoach HP wise - I haven't got the 7th yet - but then I'm rereading The Forsyte Saga again (at work - and yes I will get through all nine books) before I bother to pick the HP series up - besides my Gran has my copy of the first book and I will reread the lot before I get the 7th book.
Buses to and from work are good book reading "me" time I find. (Where is the "Laid back and not caring" smilie?)
Cheers
Whitetiger
The first two chapters of the first book are not the best - you have to get to Hogwarts to get into it - try it again
I have both covers - well my husband and I both wanted to read it straight away!!!
And yes - did go to the HP party on Friday night - dressed up as Rita Skeeter and queued to get the book - but then ended up jumping out of the q and going to Tescos at 12:15am to get it!
I love the Northern lights trilogy - read them a while back, so it's nice to revisit them. A lot more substance to them than Harry (though heavier going)
Mr Monro - I read them as a kid, but haven't touched them since - and I have a hankering to revisit 'em. For sheer use of language, if nothing else, he was amazing.
One kids book series I had to hunt down and re-read was Susan Coopers "The Dark is Rising" series
Over Sea, Under Stone (1965)
The Dark Is Rising (1973)
Greenwitch (1974)
The Grey King (1975)
Silver on the Tree (1977)
very much based around Arthurian mythos.
Over Sea, Under Stone is equivalent to the the first book of the Harry Potter series and aimed at a much younger audience where as the others are much darker (although not by today's standards!)
Very easy reading from what I remember (was a couple of years ago I tracked them down and re-read them)
Yeah I've heard they've ripped off the front cover off the book.. thrown away the rest and used that as the plot Why must they always chop and change so much. Surely if a book is good enough to be made into a film then it's good enough as it stands.
I under stand changing some small aspects , shortening etc.. but totally changing the storyline? that's a No-No!!
"Ok we're making lord of the rings.. but instead of a hobbit we've got a WWII marine played by Tom Hanks, Gimli is a tank pilot played by Arnie and Aragon is a general played by R. Lee Ermey!!.. there's no magic, and there's no ring.."
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