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offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-07-14 06:55 [#01662516]
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In anticipation of the release on Saturday, we might as
well have a thread for it now. I'm looking forward to it,
but unfortunately my Girlfriend has dibs on first-read (even
though I paid for it!) so I won't actually get to read it
until Monday at the earliest. I'm certainly looking forward
to seeing how Rowling develops the storylines and if this
book will continue the darkening of tone that has happened
for the past two books.


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2005-07-14 06:57 [#01662518]
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some grocery store in Canada accidently put them out on like
Tues, then asked for htem back, giving them back with
signatures when its released, they got most of them back

SOMEONe

look on ebay, see if any are there


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2005-07-14 06:57 [#01662519]
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If you are under 15 you can get it for £5 from Kwik Save.

I'm looking forward to it. Hope it's a bit less rambling
than the fifth book, and more structured like GOF.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-07-14 06:58 [#01662521]
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aren't you two almost 30? i thought this was kiddies book?


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2005-07-14 06:58 [#01662524]
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Yavo likes kids a bit to much.

ewwwwww.

kidding.


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2005-07-14 07:01 [#01662531]
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1 - I am 26, wash your mouth out.

2 - Yes, only infants read Potter, this is true cause I read
it on Wikipaedophile.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-07-14 07:02 [#01662534]
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:D


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-07-14 07:08 [#01662540]
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You're unfit to moderate, scum.

Yavo, I know what you mean about No. 5 rambling - but I
still enjoyed it immensely :]


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2005-07-14 07:10 [#01662543]
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Oh shit, me too. JKR's like King in that the story just
envelopes you. I hardly recognise it as "bad" writing as I'm
just enjoying what's going on. I think for this one I'll
abandon my customary SAW II listening and head down the
beach with a quarter and some beers.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-07-14 07:10 [#01662544]
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that's why i leave that to others :)


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2005-07-14 07:14 [#01662547]
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May I add I watched POA again last night. That kid has got
to go. You know who I mean. He's fucking useless.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-07-14 07:20 [#01662553]
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Oh yeah - he is a terrible actor -- but then, Emily Watson
is hardly the world's best, although she does LOOK the part


 

offline bill_hicks from my city is amazing it is calle on 2005-07-14 09:22 [#01662666]
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i would have loved to have popped that cherry but something
tells me she knows her way about a cock now. shame. anyway,
harry potter is just another shite franchise now.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-07-14 09:31 [#01662678]
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I ignore the rest of it - I enjoy the books - the last two
especially.


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2005-07-14 12:14 [#01662837]
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Looking forward to it. To my girlfriends distress the copy I
ordered for her is being delivered here with mind and I'm at
Glade so she has to wait till Monday, mwahahaha!


 

offline Xeron from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-07-14 12:24 [#01662844]
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they only made the Children's book chart here in Britain
because the first few Harry Potter books stayed at the top
of the book chart (there was only one official one then) for
so long, JK had many envious "adult-book" writers.


 

offline swift_jams from big sky on 2005-07-14 12:32 [#01662850]
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"I'm looking forward to it. Hope it's a bit less rambling
than the fifth book, and more structured like GOF."

Yeah, the 5th one was suprisingly horrible. Not as good as
the climactic events of the first four. Hopefully this 6th
release from Rowling will be much more enjoyable.


 

offline PhystPhukt from The Holiest of Holes (United States) on 2005-07-14 13:09 [#01662879]
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I can't flippin' wait.

Although I cant afford it, I think I might steal it or
something.......


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-07-15 18:19 [#01664555]
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Well, I drove my girlfriend 22 miles to Tesco to get our
first copy -- I flicked through it (FOOL!) and found out
something VERY VERY major which kind of blows. I won't give
any of it away because I'm not a total cunt, but I felt like
shouting it out to all the other people scampering out of
the place with their copies.


 

offline xceque on 2005-07-15 18:42 [#01664582]
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Harry Potter and the Half-Baked Potato. Harry finds a potato
and attempts to make chips from it, but only half-bakes it
instead of frying and therefore fails in his quest. He's
shit at chips.


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2005-07-16 03:26 [#01664892]
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i'll prrobably wait my whole life to rread this book. what
puts me off arre the idiots waiting in line at 12 o'clock at
night to buy it. then rrunning thrrough the doorr like a
lion is afterr them when they'rre opened. lets be fairr it's
too late to rread the book anyway by the time you get home
etc... waiting 'til the morrning won't you.


 

offline mrgypsum on 2005-07-16 03:57 [#01664914]
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also those fucking mongaloids in the wizards costumes,
something not right about that, i doubt i will ever read a
harry potter book, it might even be a good book, but oh
well.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-07-16 04:00 [#01664918]
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Then why are you judging its fans - it's certainly an
extremely detailed alternative society that Rowling has
created, and why shouldn't the children [and even some
adults] enjoy it so much that they feel like dressing up a
little to celebrate its release? It's a way of identifying
with it, so let them alone won't you?


 

offline mrgypsum on 2005-07-16 04:02 [#01664921]
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i am not judging the fans, i am judging the gimmicks to cash
in on the fans.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-07-16 04:12 [#01664927]
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It is the fans who decide to dress up in costume - many of
them are home-made, so who exactly is cashing in?


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-07-16 04:17 [#01664929]
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I should say that I'm referring solely to fans dressing up
and getting the book at midnight... obviously the businesses
who pedlle the extraneous Potter merchandise are cashing in
- it's their business.


 

offline mrgypsum on 2005-07-16 04:25 [#01664934]
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thats who i am talking about, the fans are the fans, i have
nothing bad to say about them


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2005-07-16 17:35 [#01665495]
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my mom works at a bookstore and had to be at work
from 12-2 am selling that dumb book. cmon people, its my
mom, let her sleep, aight!?


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-07-16 17:37 [#01665498]
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I bought my copy from a store which is open all night
anyway, and where you can check your goods out yoruself.


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-07-16 17:37 [#01665499]
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she looks nice :P


 

offline b6662966 from ? on 2005-07-16 17:47 [#01665503]
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i still dont understand how grown people could get so
excited over a childrens book. do you guys get this excited
over Hardy Boys Series too?


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-07-16 17:50 [#01665505]
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(Laurel and) Hardy was big
Thomas Hardy was clever
the Hardy boys are not big and they're not clever


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-07-16 18:09 [#01665516]
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the hardy boys were badly written, thinly plotted and didn't
have multiple plot-lines developing over a series of books.
They were also not very warm-hearted - I used to have a
collection of them number 40-50 and I can safely say that
the Harry Potter series is far superior to The HArdy Boys in
every respect.


 

offline gay_dad from 5 go mad in Dorset (Chile) on 2005-07-16 18:20 [#01665519]
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Obviously a franchise, I mean, a work of literature such as
the Pooter series, tales concerning a public school boy
wizard, who overcomes things such as being an orphan and
wearing glasses, tales which transcend their fantasy
grounding and address all manner of relevant issues such as,
is the girl in the film too young to fancy, what a fucking
shame Richard Harris will be remmebered by a load of fucking
spunkwarts as the head wizard from the shit Poofter film and
not for any of his other roles, is paganism acceptable, etc,
appeals to people of all walks of life. All walks of life
however walks of life limited to those that involve being a
slack minded fucking cunt swipe who would hoorah any old
claptrap as long as it was hyped to the fucking gills
enough.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-07-16 18:22 [#01665520]
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so can you pinpoint exactly when you became an embittered
dick? Or was it a gradual thing?


 

offline b6662966 from ? on 2005-07-16 18:23 [#01665521]
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yea...what fag_dad said


 

offline thatne from United States on 2005-07-16 18:25 [#01665522]
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i like it very well i'm reading one now, cunts. the films
are well-done so far too nice haven the imagez0rs perhaps
philie-t will direct the adaptation of book 7 what a
colossal disaster though i must say those chelmsfordians
whoo they are an eminently heroic lot innit especially those
jenkinson boys


 

offline scup_bucket from bloated exploding piss pockets on 2005-07-16 18:26 [#01665523]
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I read the first book on accident


 

offline b6662966 from ? on 2005-07-16 18:27 [#01665524]
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i have two words for you harry potter
fans......TONYA GROTTER


 

offline gay_dad from 5 go mad in Dorset (Chile) on 2005-07-16 18:27 [#01665525]
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When I read Harry Potter and the Massive Pot of Ca$h


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-07-16 18:30 [#01665526]
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It's funny that so many people who hate the Harry Potter
books either haven't read ANY, or have only read the 1st,
which IS a children's book, yet they seem to know everything
there is -- they go on about things which aren't actual
about the books - the films and Emily Watson etc, or the
shit that's spouted in America by some irrelevant Right Wing
Christian groups, while the real fans are enjoying the books
themselves.


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-07-16 18:30 [#01665527]
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haha :D


 

offline gay_dad from 5 go mad in Dorset (Chile) on 2005-07-16 18:37 [#01665531]
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Yeah, my heart fucking bleeds for downtrodden Harry Potter
fans, are you a fucking minority group with your own rights
now?


 

offline b6662966 from ? on 2005-07-16 18:38 [#01665532]
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OWNED


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-07-16 18:44 [#01665537]
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it has always disgusted me how big things such as this
always, always spawn ashameless parody.
For examples,
Pokemon spawned the even worse Digimon whilst the
Crazy Frog has spawned 'Snappy das kleine Aligator' and
dog_belch has spawned gay_dad.

it's terrible the downward spiral that this monotonous and
repetitive world is hurtling down.



 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-07-16 18:44 [#01665538]
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what are you talking about? I was rebuffing your crap - if
you hate harry potter so much why didn't you avoid this
thread? how many of the books have read?


 

offline scup_bucket from bloated exploding piss pockets on 2005-07-16 18:47 [#01665540]
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haha, I was, in fact, thinking about that last fact


 

offline gay_dad from 5 go mad in Dorset (Chile) on 2005-07-16 18:56 [#01665545]
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I went into a book shop today in town, to buy some proper
books, including a translation of Alain-Fournier's classic
"Le Grand Meaulnes" and the shopowner said to me "We have
the last Harry Potter book in if you want", I said "I
haven't read the first one so... ". You know, obviously I am
a cunty for having not read it, like I haven't read much
Jeffery Archer, Jilly Cooper, Tom Sharpe, Helen Fielding or
Danielle Steele, but, somehow, I'll learn to live with my
shame.


 

offline ToXikFB on 2005-07-16 19:05 [#01665549]
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from marlowe (his net isent working atm and hes gone to bed
so he asked me to post it for him)

"Oh I see. You're obviously far too intellectual for J K
Rowling. Because people who enjoy the Harry Potter series
are obviously only intelligent enough to grasp the poorly
written works of the other authors you've just mentioned."



 

offline gay_dad from 5 go mad in Dorset (Chile) on 2005-07-16 19:16 [#01665552]
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Well you're a tit, and have nothing to say and are acting
just as Marlowe's mouthpiece, and Marlowe is the one hung up
on being "intelligent" yet is blathering on about some over
hyped children's McNovel. I'm the only voice of dissent,
everyone else loves the gripping tale of a prepubescent
struggling to come to terms with being in a public school,
giving the loveless Robbie Coltrane another inexplicable
movie role and some drama about fictional characters doing
something tiresome, so just ignore me.


 


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