Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (no spoilers--yet)
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| principessa wrote: |
Can't Wait!
yup! my son gets yet another bday gift early.. spoiled brat!
I pre-ordered mine OOOOOOOOOO!!!
| Tamrissa wrote: |
| yup! my son gets yet another bday gift early.. spoiled brat! |
I know your kids are in mensa or whatever, but I've always felt that books shouldn't be lumped in at Christmas or Birthdays. The child should be bought the books they want, and your reward for buying them is continuing to see your child develop and grow. Making a book a Birthday present is just a cheap way of getting off the hook for something else the child wants, like a PSP.
BTW, I'm going at midnight on Friday!
There is a huge festival in St.Louis. The street will be closed for a mile and decorated like a scene from the new book from 9pm-2am, selling the book at midnight. My work is having a stand there to make wizard hats and magic wands. Should be pretty fun!
I don't know any kids in the age group that would be reading these books, so its hard for me to understand how huge these book releases really are.
Can someone tell me how this got so huge? I had never heard of Harry Potter until the Goblet of Fire came out, and had no idea there were 3 titles before that, and I consider myself on top of pop culture.
I have seen the 3 movies and i find them entertaining, and understand why a tween would find them entertaining as well, but I still don't really understand why they are THIS huge. These books get as much publicity as anything else in the news today
Can someone tell me how this got so huge? I had never heard of Harry Potter until the Goblet of Fire came out, and had no idea there were 3 titles before that, and I consider myself on top of pop culture.
I have seen the 3 movies and i find them entertaining, and understand why a tween would find them entertaining as well, but I still don't really understand why they are THIS huge. These books get as much publicity as anything else in the news today
I already pre paid for mine, I pick it up at 12:00
| Leilu wrote: |
There is a huge festival in St.Louis. The street will be closed for a mile and decorated like a scene from the new book from 9pm-2am, selling the book at midnight. My work is having a stand there to make wizard hats and magic wands. Should be pretty fun! |
/me puts on his wizard hat
I plan on getting it and reading it straight through to post spoilers on here. Lol. Expect spoilers around 10am-12pm.
Everyone in this thread is a gigantic f****t except me. Who is gay enough to read this shit. Unless you are under the age of 10 or pee sitting down.
| Mugaaz wrote: |
Everyone in this thread is a gigantic f****t except me. Who is gay enough to read this shit. Unless you are under the age of 10 or pee sitting down. |
I don't read Harry Potter books. However, don't you play DDR? In addition to that, haven't you fallen asleep in your own semen?
| NickPSH wrote: | ||
I don't read Harry Potter books. However, don't you play DDR? In addition to that, haven't you fallen asleep in your own semen? |
Hermione gives Weezley a hand job behind the pub. Weezley's wand misfires and castrates him.
Harry picks up the slack and they have a three way girl on boy on eunich wizard orgy, at which point it is revealed that A) Hermione has the Golden s****h, and B) He Who Shall not be Named has been hiding in Harry's penis the entire time.
At least, this is what was posted at the fan fiction site.
No, Im serious, check it out.
Harry picks up the slack and they have a three way girl on boy on eunich wizard orgy, at which point it is revealed that A) Hermione has the Golden s****h, and B) He Who Shall not be Named has been hiding in Harry's penis the entire time.
At least, this is what was posted at the fan fiction site.
No, Im serious, check it out.
| Mugaaz wrote: |
Everyone in this thread is a gigantic f****t except me. Who is gay enough to read this shit. Unless you are under the age of 10 or pee sitting down. |
The only faggots are the people who are afraid of being thought of as a f****t, also didn't you quit Realpoor?
I wrote my own version, beat you all.
what now b*****s?
what now b*****s?
| Kukoc wrote: |
I don't know any kids in the age group that would be reading these books, so its hard for me to understand how huge these book releases really are. Can someone tell me how this got so huge? I had never heard of Harry Potter until the Goblet of Fire came out, and had no idea there were 3 titles before that, and I consider myself on top of pop culture. I have seen the 3 movies and i find them entertaining, and understand why a tween would find them entertaining as well, but I still don't really understand why they are THIS huge. These books get as much publicity as anything else in the news today |
You'd really have to read the books. I also didn't catch on until Goblet of Fire, which is about when the first movie came out. I got dragged to the theatre to see it, then immediately bought the books and started reading. It's not that the movies are a poor representation of the books, they're very good, but they lack some of the depth of the books, and this is going to be even more apparent as the series progresses.
Part of it also is that JK Rowling has aged the content with her original readers, so she's kept most of her original readers, plus all the parents of those readers, plus anyone who were out of the demographic, but have now been "caught up" as the series matured. It's a wierd phenomenon, but I still think people are crazy who dress in the Hogwarts when they go to the movie, but no more crazy than the people who dress up in Star Wars, Trek, or LOTR gear for their respective movies.
| Mugaaz wrote: |
Everyone in this thread is a gigantic f****t except me. Who is gay enough to read this shit. Unless you are under the age of 10 or pee sitting down. |
Disagreed.
But someone has to read Dean Koontz, someone has to find profundity in the hackish writing styles of Dan Brown, and billions of angsty (or pretentious) f*****s actually think Silvia Plath was good. L. Ron Hubbard?
People are weird, people like what they want, and, guaranteed, you've once p****d, sitting, and failed to pinch one out--it would have even been okay if you said, alound, "no h**o," but you probably didn't.
lol gayboy
People making fun of DDR is just as lame as making fun of Harry Potter.
Both are perfectly fine when enjoyed on a personal level, they only glow a questionably lame hue when you become a rabid, obsessive fan.
Both are perfectly fine when enjoyed on a personal level, they only glow a questionably lame hue when you become a rabid, obsessive fan.
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