Originally posted by Jeremy:
VF, the good thing about reading it so late is now you know Tom Hanks will be playing....what's his face in the movie. So just imagine Forrest Gump running around solving mysteries.

Now I can imagine Sophie yelling "Run Langdon, run!"

hee.

I also heard the movie people are trying to remove anything that might upset the religiously minded people that bought all those movie tickets to see "The Passion," so when I read "Da Vinci" now, I can also skip about 80% of it.

Got my confirmation from Amazon today that HBP was shipped... but they said they "cannot guarantee it will arrive on July 16th"... bastards.  It damn well better. I know they're just covering their butts, but when I preordered it said if it didn't arrive on the 16th I'd get my money back, even if it was delivered the next day. I'm going to remain optimistic and trust that it will come on time.  Still, not the end of the world, I've waited 2 years... what's another day?

Oops, I started a Harry Potter thread which got closed, and I didn't have time to edit my last message in it which you can't understand.

I didn't see this thread.

Anyways, are any of you getting there book at midnight? I'm not, the bookstore that i pre-ordered it at will be closed. I can only get it when they open tommorow, which is around 9:00.

So, I started reading "The Mermaid Chair" today. I don't know why, because it didn't seem like something I'd really enjoy, but it's actually turning out to be pretty good. It's one of those books that's so well-written and true-to-life that, even if it doesn't seem like a book you'd be interested in, the story just manages to draw you in anyway. Which is good. I'm about a hundred pages into it, and, while I guess I can't really review a book until I've read it completely, I have a feeling that it won't disappoint me or whatever. I guess I'll have to wait and see.

Whenever my father is done desecrating it, I'll read Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, the same guy who wrote Snow Crash. It's a little over one thousand pages, so it could take me a bit, especially with all the computergaming I've been doing. I'll probably cut back, seeing as how it's it's Neil Stephenson!

Hmm...after watching the Daily Show tonight, I think I'll wait a day or two to pick up 1/2BP.  It sounds like it's going to be crazy, and the bookstore I go to is tiny and conducive to mob behavior.

I :heart: Issac Asimov's novels.  I'm working on the Foundation trilogy/series right now (if only Foundation's Edge hadn't been checked out at the library, that is.)

Always the good daddy  Hopefully there will be some copies left for you... As for me, I opted to skip the throngs of children in lieu of a night with my sweetheart  . I'll get HBP tomorrow, and all will be well.

Ha ha ha.

Borders was jamed pack with people buying the HP book, people were waiting in line for 15 minutes to get it.

Me, I just walked over to the WH Smith bookshop in the part of the mall were nobody goes, picked up a copy, walked over to the counter paid the women and went on my way.

Plus they gave me a $5 discount coupon, for me to use on any book I buy next time I'm there. All in just under a minute. LOL.

Also, I'm half way through "Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy" should be finished in a day or two.

Well, finished reading Half-Blood Prince.  I have to say, it was pretty damn good.  Not a lot I didn't expect, except for one development with Harry and a certain [Descriptive Phrase is Above Your Security Clearance, Citizen] which seemed, all in all, rather poorly developed.  Also, I believe the word "snogging" was used more in this novel than in any other work of fiction ever.  I wonder if actual British teenagers say it that much, or if it's just middle-aged kindergarten teachers who think they do.

That's not really a spoiler is it?  I'm not telling you who's doing the snogging.  It probably is a spoiler to tell you you won't be surprised, at least by the end of the novel.

And finally, for everyone who was as annoyed during the last novel by Emo-Harry, I will tell you that he is replaced by the end of this novel...with Spiderman-Harry.  Seriously, the resemblance is uncanny.

Anyhow, I'm not going to post who t3h pr|nc3 is, not even in spoiler tags.  Someone else can ruin it for you.

I am a book o-holic! I love books but it depends what book i am actually reading? If you get my drift anyway this sight rocks! Big up the site!

I feel annoyed with "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince", mainly because it is shorter than "Goblet of Fire" and "Order of the Phoenix". And what a cheap ending, eurgh, the look on his face...

I'm British and not once have I used the word snogging. Whether it is because I spend my free time under bridges burning small children / on a futurama internet forum or whatever, however I can not be called a loser seeing as they all waited until they were 15/16 to get "snogged".

One more thing: Spiderman-Harry? I think the book would've been so much more amusing if it had just been Spiderman that Harry became.

Oh, and I'm going to lord the fact the I know who The Prince is over you all until I get bored, realising you all know as well.

Eurgh, the look on his face....

@ newhook: So cruel, and thus, so incredibly funny. That'll teach people to have faith in mankind!

Anyway, I read "Love Story" the other day. I have no idea why that is--just felt like it, I guess. Feel free to mock me if you wish (it'll save me the trouble of doing it myself).

I can't explain why I like this book so much. I mean, it's kind of corny and runs the risk of becoming one big sap-fest; there's virtually no conflict at all (well, I guess there's a physical one towards the end, but there's no actual conflict between the romantic counterparts); and it's actually pretty anti-climactic, when you think about it. (The first sentence in the book is "What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?" I mean, c'mon, people--if you're surprised by how the story turns out, then you should really just stop reading altogether, and live a nice, quiet, simple existence among the goats.)

And, on top of all that, it's not particularly well-written. There are moments of redundancy (and it's hard to tell if they're intentional or not), and there are some half-jokes that come off as more than half-crappy. But, there are some good jokes, and, in the end, you really do feel bad for the guy.

Sure, it's true what they say: if you've read the book, then you've seen the movie (or vice versa), but that makes sense when you consider the fact that Erich Segal wrote his screenplay, then adapted it into this book (the fact that the latter came out first was just a happy coincidence, I guess).

Maybe that's why I can accept some of the flaws in the writing, I don't know. All I really know is that I like the book.

And also that I'm crazy for liking the book.

 

Originally posted by Spacedal11:
 Why? Why do I keep highlighting these things! Oh well I already know that Snape is the prince.

Funny though Newhook. Really funny. I should do that. I'd get in trouble but I'd love to do that. Why should I even consider buying the 6th book. I'm not even done with the 5th. Strictly because it bores me and it's taking me forever to finish.

Godfuckingdamn, Spacedal. Don't complain about reading it if you go and spoil it.

Sigh, now I have no reason to read the book. Thanks.

I read a book today.  It was a handbook they gave me.  Basically it said: You don't follow the rules and you get disciplinary (action).  Sometimes it didn't even have the word action there.  Someone told me I was the first one he'd seen that came in and actually read the damn thing.  Which probably makes sense, I can't possibly seeing someone else reading that sort of dribble... unless they were incredibly bored... and even then.... well..... yeah.

Thank me? It's not my fault you have no will power. Besides, he was refering to this:


Which you posted out of spoilers.

 

Originally posted by newhook_1:
Thank me? It's not my fault you have no will power. Besides, he was refering to this:

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"Why? Why do I keep highlighting these things! Oh well I already know that Snape is the prince."

Which you posted out of spoilers.

I know. Though I think I already knew the thing you had said from earlier today. But I'm just a very curious person. I call myself a nosy bitch. Which I deserve to be called.

That doesn't effect me! I knew that already! Yay!

I mean it doesn't ruin anything for me because I knew what happened in that war and I have no intentions of reading that book. Of course I care about people who died in war. I respect them. It's not like I throw a party to dishonor them or anything.