Hp7

[Plunder Down-Under]

Anyone got their copy yet? Ive got mine.

[Crazeyal]

uh..

*suddenly feels old and out-of-touch*

[Mike Taylor]

I've never owned a Harry Potter book. I've owned the first two movies, but that's it.

[Leffy]

i want to read it but i don't want to own it. i'm actually pining away for Laurell K. Hamilton and Sherrilyn Kenyon's realeases.

[Crazeyal]

ohhhhh

Harry!!!

Nah.. I read the books after I see the movie. Good damn thing, too! The first one was frikken word per word!

[Wayne]

I just got back from the store so I got a copy and my nephew's b-day present.


Leffy - Hamilton has some great stuff, haven't read the newest Anita Blake yet.

[Leffy]

i'm very upset at my lack of funding. i WANT NEED CRAVE the newest anita. cause frakly i want to see if she picks up where she left off in the last or just skips right into another story.

[Wayne]

From what I am told it is just a lot more sex. I am a little disappointed that they went as sleezy as they did and I like to read about sex.

[Crazeyal]

uh.. I hearit's been cracked online.. do a google search.

[Leffy]

to a degree the sex in her books is necessary for some character and plot development. but yeah thats only like 1/3rd of the sex that is in there. the rest is for dirty little minds like me that just need crazy wild sex scenes to live through vicariously. i don't want her to remove any of the sex. i just want her stories to actually have an END not a goddamned cuttoff because she's got way too many pages going. from what i've heard she doesn't finish the story in the last one. just goes oops! asher and me had a boo boo! i'm in the hospital! the end. when the whole time you're like wait wtf about the froufrou ballet bitches?


but supposedly edward peeks in and i'm dying to see how,

[Wayne]

I guess that I should borrow the last book back and actually read it. I wish that the stories were a little more like the first three. With a conclusion and more fighting the monsters and figuring out the mystery. I have also started reading Jim Butcher's Dresden Files. No sex but great stories, well one of the books does have a sex scene.

[Leffy]

i'm just becoming more and more addicted to Sherillyn Kenyon's books by the hour. they've got the sex, they've got the romance, and they've got good versus evil.

not to mention the way she describes these men makes me want to go out late at night with a tshirt on readin "Daimon Bait" in the hopes one magically appears lol

[Wayne]

I just checked her site and they look intesting. Now are they based more for female readers or for fantasy in general readers?

[Leffy]

well its supernatural romance, so yeah a little more towards the ladies but as far as the stories themselves i think anyone would get a kick out the whole deal. people curious about atlantis, greek mythology, vampires, werewolves, and demons all see their topic pop up. the skinny of it is, apollo got gyped by trying to screw over the people of atlantis, cursed his children so that they now must survive on blood, and die long drawn out deaths on their 27th birthdays. if they don't want to die they have to suck out the souls of humans to lengthen their lives. in come the darkhunters. immortal men and women who've sold their souls to artemis upon their deaths for a single act of vengeance. in exchancge for the ability to take their vengeance they spend the rest of eternity hunting and destroying Daimons, being lead by Artemis' atlantean lover Acheron Parthenopolus

dudes fucking badass.

[kitty!]

I got the book 5 hours before any of you did, and I finished it in 5 hours (not counting the 4 hours sleep when I conked out @ 4 AM)

Then, I hung out with my cousin and loud strangers who found my accent and culture facinating!

I love it here.

[Seolta]

finished around 6:40am...then passed out for a few hours, then got up and went to the IMAX with the family, had lunch, came back home, and passed out again till just after 11pm. Actually saw the books in person on Tuesday, but the reference-person said I couldn't take one home, even if I promised to bring it back in time to put in the shipment the next morning, so nobody would know:rolleyes:

[Tanukitsune]

I bought it about 10 the day it came out and finished at about 8 hours later... :jbp:

[Wayne]

I just started reading it this afternoon and am only about 100 pages in. I am a slow reader.

[Sehson]

yep finnished the book and.....

Harry.............Hermoine.........and they goto......... REd bull.... .... Broken wings........ Then the autobots swooping and optimus prime saves the day...:eek::shhh::shhh::shhh:











:lol::dp:

Actually haven't read it yet wifey is still reading it...

[Leffy]

Scholastic's actually suing people over shipping out the books before the release date.

[Sehson]

eh the funny thing is half the people that are downloading the book are downloading the wrong one. Theres a guy that wrote some fan-fiction, thats actually pretty good from what I've read about it. and a bunch of people have re-labled that on the downloads. So a whole bunch of people downloaded and were all WTF from talking to people who had the real book.

I've downloaded the real book makes it a bit easier to carry on a palm then the hardcover is:dgrin: and yes we have the hard cover, so it's semi legal:jbgrin:

[Wayne]

Scholastic's actually suing people over shipping out the books before the release date.

In cases like this they can actually just fine the companies that did this. Anything like bools, DVDs, and CDs have "street dates" that they cannot be sold before and if you are caught doing it you get fined.

Now up to page 200 and still reading.

[Leffy]

no there was a contract and everything over it. suppliers were not allowed to even open it to package until the 12:01 sell time.

[Plunder Down-Under]

I finished it the day after I got it and it is my new favorite in the series, I love it

[Maz]

I got my copy, but had such a rough weekend only got as far as chapter 6 and now back in work ... oh hum ...

I just need to know how it finishes. I hate not knowing the endings.

The movies are not as good as the books, :cool:

Could be worse though, could of re-written the plot like they did with The Prestige, grrrr!

[Compton]

My wife and I had the Potter book pre ordered. She read it over the weekend so I could read it on my lunch breaks. I'm a few chapters into it now. Its pretty good, but hard to get a grasp of the overall quality at this point.

I did see the latest movie over the weekend though. (and read a different book all the way through.)

[Compton]

I got my copy, but had such a rough weekend only got as far as chapter 6 and now back in work ... oh hum ...

I just need to know how it finishes. I hate not knowing the endings.

The movies are not as good as the books, :cool:

Could be worse though, could of re-written the plot like they did with The Prestige, grrrr!


Or they could have royally fucked with the plot like they did the Jason Bourne movies..... GRRRRRRRRRRRR /looks around work those damn screenplay adaptors to have Maz and Captn, keelhaul them./

[Maz]

:: Prepares ship for multiple keelhaulings ::

There may be too many. May have to just be satisfied with feeding many to the sharks, :cool:

[Leffy]

speaking of young adult books turned into movies, had anyone seen Blood & Chocolate and read the book? i need a review to help me decide if i'm ruining a book thats all happy childhood memories for me if i get it.

[Sehson]

from what I've heard about the movie is it is on par with underworld... lots of unrealised potential. fromthe reviews the story is needing but a good base, the editing is need and the special effects are marginal. So if you go into thinking its going to be bad you might be pleasently surprised.

[Crazeyal]

Well, without any spoilers, I can say I enjoyed the movie.. but it seemed a little..unfufilled. I'd compare it to watching the second Lord of the Rings movie.. and having the last 20 minutes cut. There was action, things happened, but nothing much got resolved. The film belongs with the rest of the series.. but it's definately the worst of them plotwise.

[Wayne]

I just finished HP7 and I really liked it.

[Plunder Down-Under]

Well, without any spoilers, I can say I enjoyed the movie.. but it seemed a little..unfufilled. I'd compare it to watching the second Lord of the Rings movie.. and having the last 20 minutes cut. There was action, things happened, but nothing much got resolved. The film belongs with the rest of the series.. but it's definately the worst of them plotwise.

I havent seen the latest movie, they werent nearly as good as the books. Bookwise, everything the fifth puts out there is used by the 7th masterfully, including very subtle things.

[Maz]

Now getting confused about who is talking about what ... :confused:

[Seolta]

Now getting confused about who is talking about what ... :confused:

Yes.

[Wayne]

Yes.

exactly

[Sehson]

nope can't prove anything:didea::dgrin:

[Wayne]

And we have a winner.

[Ecchi_Kitty]

Suppose this means I really should get around to starting the series.... soo many books, so little time to read them all in.

[toreador]

speaking of young adult books turned into movies, had anyone seen Blood & Chocolate and read the book? i need a review to help me decide if i'm ruining a book thats all happy childhood memories for me if i get it.

hehe i read the book and my friend Kurbys in the film as a stunt coordanater for the werewolfs!!

blood and chocolate rocks as a book the movie will be great!

[Maz]

Didn't know there was a book ... prefer reading books if they came first, don't usually bother if they adaptions of screenplay.

But have been told, if anyone plays Werewolf: The Apocolypse, the moot they have and other bits are almost dead on. White wolf might have a better claim against this one, :p

But also told it is a good movie.

[Seolta]

Didn't know there was a book ... prefer reading books if they came first, don't usually bother if they adaptions of screenplay.

Book came first, followed by movie...same author has a vampire novel out too, called The Silver Kiss. It and Blood and Chocolate are both classed as Young Adult Literature, so most likely would be found in that section of your friendly neighborhood library and/or bookstore. Haven't read either yet, but shelved both frequently, so they seem pretty popular.

[RazorJAK]

From what I am told it is just a lot more sex. I am a little disappointed that they went as sleezy as they did and I like to read about sex.

I wholeheartedly agree. She went the Anne Rice porno route and destroyed the series in my opinion. She could have just kept the Gentry novels to be her wankfest material.

I haven't bothered picking up anything past Incubus Dreams. I've disliked each book more and more ever since Blue Moon.

Edward was the only reason I kept reading the series. She seems to him written him out to give more room for the fucking. SO I've moved on to bigger and better things.

Seriously, the Anita Blake books have to be the only series I was actualy a fan of but HATED the main characters. I only liked the secondary characters because she writes bodyguards really really well.

ANITA = repressed hypocritical angsty bitch
RICHARD = repressed hypocritical angsty boyscout
JEAN CLAUDE = arrogant metrosexual asshole

Give me Harry Dresden, Hellboy or Repairman Jack any day over Anita Blake and her uberangst.

[Leffy]

Edward DOES make an appearance in The Harlequinn, with Olaf and Peter. Yes. I said Olaf. For that alone I wanted to read it. It just wasn't what I expected.

btw The Silver Kiss was a GREAT story. I still read it frequently.

[RazorJAK]

Edward DOES make an appearance in The Harlequinn, with Olaf and Peter. Yes. I said Olaf. For that alone I wanted to read it. It just wasn't what I expected.

btw The Silver Kiss was a GREAT story. I still read it frequently.

Olaf? She wrote Olaf into another story?

DAMN YOU LKH! I keep trying to get away and you pull me back in!

The crazy wiccan chick who took me in when I uprooted from Michigan and moved to Buffalo introduced to the series back in '98. I read all of them from Guilty Pleasures all the way to Blue Moon back to back over the course of a week. ( I read fast. I finished HP7 in four hours while on painkillers. )

She got me into the books because, and I quote:

"You remind me of Edward. You'll understand when he gets introduced."

So book to book to book, devoured them each and would yell GIMME for the next one. Until I got to Blue Moon. Which took me over a full day to finish due to trying to reread chapters in an attempt to find something I missed because she couldn't POSSIBLY have turned into such a fucking hack that she left all those loose ends out of the book ... Boy was I mistaken.

So "Gimme Gimme Gimme" with the first books ended with me shouting "FUCKING CUNTING WHORE!!!" as I tossed Blue Moon across the apartment!

[Maz]

Book came first, followed by movie...same author has a vampire novel out too, called The Silver Kiss. It and Blood and Chocolate are both classed as Young Adult Literature, so most likely would be found in that section of your friendly neighborhood library and/or bookstore. Haven't read either yet, but shelved both frequently, so they seem pretty popular.

Will have to go see, but with moving in a couple weeks there's no point puting a reservation on. Still waiting for the last one I put on for Janet Evanovich's book 13. I miss working in public libraries ... getting first dibs on books.

[Wayne]

Give me Harry Dresden, Hellboy or Repairman Jack any day over Anita Blake and her uberangst.

I have not heard of Repairman Jack. What series is that from and who is the author?

[kitty!]

Who's read the Odd Thomas series? I don't remember the author but the 2 books I've read are really sad and really touching and It makes the girly princess in me cry every time I read the end of the (i think) first book because of the people who die.

Much like how I cried at the end of HP7.

BUT GUESS WHAT!!!

There's going to be an EIGTH HP BOOK!! It will be filled with back story and JKR is describing it as a sort of "Encyclopedia of Characters"

I'm mega excited. Aparently Dean Thomas is a really interesting character according to JKR's press release.

MY CHILDHOOD ISN'T OVER YET!!!

[Wayne]

I had not heard that. Cool book to look forward to. IT will be nice to learn about the other characters.

[Ruestir]

There's going to be an EIGTH HP BOOK!! It will be filled with back story and JKR is describing it as a sort of "Encyclopedia of Characters"
Where did you find this nugget of information?

[Plunder Down-Under]

I heard of that book too, Id be interested in reading the backstories.

[kitty!]

Where did you find this nugget of information?

facebook group: "A part of me died with Severus Snape"

And a part of me really did die. Oh sevvie... ;-;

[Leffy]

... kitty! i haven't read yet! hush!

RazorJak, like i said, Edward, Olaf, and Peter (Edward's stepson) make an appearance. I LOVE edward and i've been DYING waiting for the anita-olaf showdown. and i was greatly dissappointed. what dissappoints me most is how damned lomg it takes her between damned books and you're right the amount of loose ends she keeps making.

[Seolta]

I miss working in public libraries ... getting first dibs on books.

HA!!!

We're required to wait at least five days from the date a popular book goes into circulation before we're even allowed on the waiting list. Any other book, we're supposed to give a week on the shelf, to allow the public first dibs. Some folks can get around this by checking the item out on a family member(or significant other)'s card...then again, most of my coworkers(and their families) actually live in the county they work for:rolleyes:

[Maz]

wow ... that sucks.