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Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Post by: Ash on July 17, 2007, 01:41:47 AM
I just pre-ordered Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows yesterday at Barnes & Noble.com.
It comes out this weekend on the 21st.

I've read all of the books so far and I must find out what happens in the end!
Will Harry die?

(http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8163/harrypotterghastlyhallols7.gif) (http://imageshack.us)

How about you?
Are you planning to read this book?


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows: Will You Buy It?
Post by: RCMerchant on July 17, 2007, 05:33:01 AM
 :question: I'm confused!


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows: Will You Buy It?
Post by: DodgingGrunge on July 17, 2007, 07:05:22 AM
I was working at a book store when the first few books came out.  And anything that could unite so many disparate groups of people was something I wanted no part of.  Working retail, the customer is always wrong.  :lookingup:  Actually, one of the main reasons I have never read them is that I don't care for their author, Ms. Rowling.  And so long as I can help it, I won't contribute to her fortune.

Insofar as children's books, give me Barker's Thief of Always or Gaiman's Coraline any day.


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows: Will You Buy It?
Post by: Shadow on July 17, 2007, 05:13:52 PM
I'll be buying it Saturday morning and I guarantee to have the entire thing read by nightfall.


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows: Will You Buy It?
Post by: Yaddo 42 on July 17, 2007, 07:56:07 PM
Haven't read any of them, but plenty of people I know will and already have their pre-bought vouchers to get it at 12:01 am.

My sister loaned me the first two a while back, I've been tempted to try the first one, but never seriously. My taste in fantasy runs to Terry Prachett. Hear good things about the series, that even adults can enjoy them, but I'm not motivated to try them right now.

I've seen the first two films, and almost went to the fifth one the other day, but that was more to do with a girl I know inviting me.


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows: Will You Buy It?
Post by: Torgo on July 17, 2007, 10:24:22 PM
I haven't read any of the books but I've seen the 1st 3 movies.

Not really my cup of tea overall even though I do like good fantasy.


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows
Post by: Snivelly on July 20, 2007, 12:52:51 PM
I've read the whole series, even though it's not what I would normally go for either.  Not the best written books but still a compelling story, and my 9 yr old and I have a bet going on whether Harry dies or not.  I don't think he dies, but I think he has to give up something very dear to him to stay alive.


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows
Post by: Mr. DS on July 20, 2007, 01:37:16 PM
I lost touch with the series the fifth book.  The fourth ended on such an awesome note and the 5th book was like blah to me.  I will see the movie though. 

Theres a running joke I have going with The Deathly Hallows at my work place.  I work with two rabid Harry Potter fans who say they would be devastated if the ending was ruined for them.  I keep making up spoilers interfusing B-Movies like Harry gets on Pegasus and rides with Medusa's head to take on the Kraken.  They get mad at me but oh well.   :wink:


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows
Post by: CheezeFlixz on July 20, 2007, 02:07:44 PM
Frankly, I think there is too much hype around it and the Potter Police running around freaking over websites with the book posted and the early shipments by a couple of companies like Deep Discount ... it a freakin book for *&$% sake! It's almost as silly as the iPhone hype ... I'll do like I always do I'll wait for the hoopla to die down and I'll buy a used copy for a buck at the used book store if my kids want to read it, myself I have no interest in it, I've seen the movies with the kids but that's about it for me. Maybe we'll get lucky and Potter is turned into a frog and ends up on a southern buffet, insuring they're are no more books about him.
If you like them great, I just think there is far to much media and hype around it all.


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on July 20, 2007, 11:07:51 PM
Can you vote for more than one?

"No!" and "I have never read any of the Harry Potter books."


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows
Post by: Susan on July 20, 2007, 11:38:31 PM
All i know is that they better hurry up and make the movie before we have a 30 year old man playing the role of a teenager

(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a327/smvgrey/HARRYOLD.jpg)


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows
Post by: Ash on July 21, 2007, 07:29:35 AM
The day after I wrote this thread, I cancelled my pre-order at Barnes & Noble.

Instead, after I got off work last night, I drove to the nearest Wal-Mart.  I had bought the last two Harry Potter novels from there at a crazy low price so I figured I'd pick up Deathly Hallows there too.

As soon as I exited my car in the parking lot, I heard a female voice over the loudspeaker say, "For those of you here to purchase the new Harry Potter book, we will be selling it in the Lawn & Garden section starting in 8 minutes."

I went to the Lawn & Garden section.

At first, it didn't look like there were that many people there.
That was until I made a left turn and saw roughly 150-200 people standing in a line that sprawled clear into the back of the flower section.

"Screw it"  I thought.  "I'm getting this book tonight!"

The managers at Wal-Mart had the audacity to open only one register in the Lawn & garden section!
Meaning, over 200+ people had to stand in line while some lady cashier rang everybody up....one at a time.

After about 20 minutes, my patience had started to wear thin.
The line was barely moving.  It was almost 12:30 am and I was tired.
The thing that kept me in line were the cool people I was standing by.
I struck up a conversation with a guy and a girl in front of me and another guy behind me.
All four of us had gone to Wal-Mart by ourselves to buy this book and none of us knew each other.

I actually had a great time waiting in line with these total strangers!   :smile:

We talked about how the Wal-Mart managers were idiots, to what we thought would happen in the last Potter book and about how much more time we'd have to wait in line.
None of us asked each other our names or tried to probe into each others' backgrounds.

After standing for quite awhile, the line began to slowly move and we eventually approached a stack of cheap plastic lawn chairs.
The guy in front of me grabbed one and had a seat.
So then I grabbed one for the lady, one for me, and the guy behind me took one.
As the line slowly moved...we casually moved our new chairs with it.
We sat and talked and moved with the line.

I tell ya', the hour I spent with those strangers was more fun than some of the time I've recently spent with people I know well.

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Oh...about the book.
I've burned through the first 100 pages and lemme tell ya...DAMN!
To those of you who didn't think there was enough action in The Half-Blood Prince, The Deathly Hallows starts off with a bang.

What a chase!

You guys have got to start reading this kickass series.
You're missing out.



Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows
Post by: Mr. DS on July 21, 2007, 09:06:56 AM
 the spoiler is on wikipedia already...

Good story by the way Ash.  Those midnight release things can be a lot of fun.  I went to Toys R Us at midnight when the Episode 1 toys went on sale.  As for the one cashier thing it is a bit dumb.  Perhaps they were stalling the lines for media coverage.  I guess as long as people weren't buying general groceries they were expecting thigns to go fast. 


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows
Post by: CheezeFlixz on July 21, 2007, 09:19:57 AM
Yet another reason, to the very long list of reasons I never shop at Wal-Mart. They're just plain stupid, for lack of a better word in that store. I friend of mine told me this morning that the store here was the same, long lines and only one register open. They refused to wait and set the book down and left. Her daughter who was the one wanting the book was none to happy about it. They were going back this morning to see if any were left.


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows
Post by: felgekarp on July 21, 2007, 09:56:45 AM
I've no interest in the books but think the films are great, went into Waterstones this morning to pick up some graphic novels and they too had only one till area open but at least there was 3 people serving so I didn't have to queue for long, they where selling it for £8.99 but I'd noticed Morrisons ( a supermarket for those not in the UK) selling it for £4.99.


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows
Post by: Shadow on July 22, 2007, 12:21:32 AM
I just finished it. I would have completed it earlier but I had to stop and eat. :teddyr:


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows
Post by: CheezeFlixz on July 22, 2007, 12:46:53 AM
I just finished it. I would have completed it earlier but I had to stop and eat. :teddyr:


Were you shocked?

I was SHOCKED to find out Harry Potter was really a girl and in the throws of PMS killed half the characters with a cookie cutter and chop sticks.  (http://www.snitchseeker.com/images/smilies/smilie_ron_quidditch.gif)


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows
Post by: Shadow on July 22, 2007, 12:51:55 AM
Not as shocked as when Voldemort was unmasked at the end, revealing his true identity as Old Man Smithers. "I'd have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you meddling kids," he was heard to say as they carted him off. :wink:


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows
Post by: Mr. DS on July 22, 2007, 06:29:14 AM
I heard something about the book starting on a desert planet and Harry acquiring some droids and while cleaning them he hears a top secret message from a Princess for an old wizard who lives on the same planet. 


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows
Post by: Raffine on July 22, 2007, 12:26:31 PM
Spoiler:






"HARRY POTTER" IS THE NAME OF THE SLED!


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Post by: Ash on July 23, 2007, 03:01:33 AM
You know what I just realized?
This entire time, I've had the title of the book spelled wrong in the title of this thread.
I had written, "Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows".

I can't believe I missed that!
Me...the guy who is obsessed with spelling everything right.    :lookingup:

The "L" has officially been added to the title of this thread.


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Post by: Derf on July 23, 2007, 08:46:06 AM
I finished the book last night; my wife is a major Potter nerd, so she ordered the book back in February. She read it Saturday. I started it Saturday night and finished it about midnight Sunday. I enjoy the series, though not nearly as much as my wife does. The books are, overall, much better than the movies (except for HP and the Order of the Phoenix, which managed to portray Harry much better on film than the book). I read it quickly because my daughter wants me to read it with her, so I needed to know what was going to happen to prepare.

I must say, my favorite part is where the robots are defeated with a computer virus.  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Post by: Snivelly on July 24, 2007, 03:52:33 PM
I finished the book this morning.  I had read the online spoilers, and I thought the ending was going to be too Disney-ish, but with all of the deaths that happened it really wasn't.  It was actually a good ending to the series.

But it left a lot of unanswered questions, so I'm kinda glad I just read an article saying that the author will probably be writing an encyclopedia to go with the series in which she'll give back stories and what-happened-later info on many of the characters.


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Post by: Zapranoth on July 29, 2007, 12:43:26 AM
Which unanswered questions, Ms Whiplash?   :teddyr:  Bet some of 'em are answered in the book, in fact.


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Post by: Trevor on July 31, 2007, 07:22:03 AM
 :smile: An IMDB user said that she and a friend had gone to buy the book, her friend just grabbed a book and bought it, thinking that it was the new one. She thumbed to the end and said out loud: "Oh no, they killed Dumbledore again!" to laughter from those assembled.  :teddyr:

I think she bought either Goblet of Fire or Half Blood Prince, I'm not sure which.

I have read this book, I was pretty satisfied with the end, which is that Harry Potter finds out that soylent green is people and that Hermione and Ron get it together. SPOILER!!


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Post by: Inyarear on August 01, 2007, 11:13:01 AM
Well, finding out that Hermione was Snape's sister AND daughter was pretty shocking... :hot:


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows: Will You Buy It?
Post by: BTM on August 14, 2007, 09:52:55 PM
Actually, one of the main reasons I have never read them is that I don't care for their author, Ms. Rowling.  And so long as I can help it, I won't contribute to her fortune.

Er.. I'm confused, you haven't read any of the books, but you say you don't like the author? 

Uh.. huh?

I mean, could understand if was like a political activist or something, but last I checked she hasn't done any of that.  Or are you referring maybe to the silly plagiarism charges some other chick was trying to level against her?

 


Title: Re: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Post by: raj on August 23, 2007, 03:35:28 PM
Finished it.  Who knew that Hagrid had the ability to call on Godzilla -- kinda funny that the only way to save Hogwarts was to have Godzilla trash the place.  The scene where they made Dudley "squeal like a pig" was a bit excessive.

I only started reading the series after my sister gave me the first 3 books for a Christmas present.  I thought they were enjoyable, though not on the level of LOTR.  The series did get a couple of my nieces into reading, even though they previously weren't.  I suspect that's the case with a lot of kids, so Rowling should get karma points for that alone -- making reading cool for kids.