Harry Potter

[Karen]

all of them?
how'd you do that?
**clueless**

I am blessed with the right genes, so that I read very quickly, and well. My brain just processes words quite adeptly. I can literally read a book a day, if I have the time. I have no problem reading for hours at a stretch, and when a book is really good, I'll read when I should be doing other things (like sleeping) and WHILE I'm doing things (like exercising). It's completely genetic, nothing I can take credit for - all my sibling are that way, and most of the next generation is as well.

For the record, Ma was a writer and and English teacher. Dad is an engineer, but brought a thick stack of books home from the library every week to read while he was at work.

I may not be able to walk a balance beam without falling off, or win a tanning contest - but I CAN read.

[shais_mom]

I may not be able to walk a balance beam without falling off, or win a tanning contest - but I CAN read.

and you can't eat a lot of things either!
well I meant what kind of site do you go to for that? can you save your spot etc?
I love to read also - I just don't read as much as I used to or like to - darn WORK!

[AdoreMyDogs]

I LOOOOVE the Harry Potter books! The movies are so-so compared to the books, but the books are just so fun! I've re-read the first 3, and I've read and I own them all.

[Karen]

and you can't eat a lot of things either!
well I meant what kind of site do you go to for that? can you save your spot etc?
I love to read also - I just don't read as much as I used to or like to - darn WORK!

It was several years ago - a friend who knew I love to read emailed me the text he found online of all four books. Unfortunately, they were mislabeled, when I read them I figured out that the ones labelled 3 and 4 had been switched, so it took a bit of catching up. They were just plan text files that I got emailed, I am sure they are out there on the web somewhere ... though not legally, of course. And as I had the files on my machine at the time, I could just type in "Stopped here" into the text, and delete it when I picked up again!

[crow_noir]

Yes I've read all of them so far. For the longest time i had NO interest in them. By the third book though i decided to see what all the "dam*" hype was about. To be honest i HATED the first book and thought it was horrible. Everyone thought it was sooooooo funny, but i was bored out of my mind! ...but darn it all I'm a plot vvh0r3 and got suckered in. 2 was better. 3 and 4 are my faves! and five... well it's OK. 6 *sigh* still better than one... in it's own way. I *might* like one better though. not sure.

NOT my fav series or even close, but i wouldn't call it a waste of time. I do think there are MUCH better series out there though. (like the Speaking to Dragons series. forget what it's called, but that's the title of one of the books in it.)

[crow_noir]

I wonder if somehow i ended up borrowing a British version then because there were a LOT of British terms like that which had me puzzled as to what they meant. ...I was like "Jeeze! If this is the American version how different is the British version?!"

I don't remember reading sweater, but i do remember puzzling over Jumper.

And remember... I was borrowing book one from the library when it was EASY to get a hold of a copy of book three there.

I...
Also, did you know that the British release ones were slightly different than the American (schloastic) ones? Like, for instance in book one when they're discussing Harry's clothes right at the beginning, the British one refers to a 'Jumper', but the American one refers to 'Sweater' -- i guess its' since the British terms for some things aren't the same as the American ones

[crow_noir]

If you have a library card you might want to check with your local library. Mine has this partnership with a nationwide program that has ebooks and all sorts of other nifty documents (like the SAT study guide.) The ebooks has mostly just common titles, so I'm sure Harry Potter would be on there.

It's completely free for anyone in my county with a library card. You just have to go to the library to set up your account for the ebooks first.

There's a small fee for those with out a library card.

and you can't eat a lot of things either!
well I meant what kind of site do you go to for that? can you save your spot etc?
I love to read also - I just don't read as much as I used to or like to - darn WORK!

[kallisto4529]

YES LOVE THEM!!!!!! I have read all the books so far and I have pre-ordered the last one....I am so bummed that it is really the last one, I can not possibly imagine how she will end it. Very excited about July 11th, my nephew and I have not missed seeing one yet in the theater.

[KittyGurl]

I love the books and the movies! I read books 1 to 3 and started some of book 4. I can't wait till the last book comes out!

[mrspunkysmom]

I think book three was already out and Potter ws the tlak fo the town when my mom mentioned them to me. I bought the first book and was hooked.

The first book is short and light. I suspect that JKR had the whole world in her head but was unwilling or unable to sell a large or long book as a first book. She went with what she could sell in the first few books.

I was disappointed in book 6, but I realize that 6 was the launch point for 7. I suspect she was tying up some loose ends in preparation to zapping us with the finale. If 6 was longer or more detailed she may have given away too much and 7th would be as big a surprise.

I am in my umpteenth re-reading of the series prior to reading the last book. Oddly enough, I haven't pre-ordered the book yet. I'm not sure where I'll be on the 21st of July.

Anne

[Christmas_Hamster]

I ahve read them all and I am going to re-read the 6th one again. I love these books. *bows down to books*

The movies do no justice to the books. You miss so much detail about the plot. They have taken out so much important information out of the movies that it is rediculous

[Flatcoatluver]

I've read two pages of the first book and havn't read anymore. That was about 5 years ago.

I have seen the first two movies, and I thought they were boring.

[SemaviLady]

I tend to be a heavy reader of nonFic so HP wasn't part of my usual fare. But I know many HP fans (adults) and when the DVD movies came out, I saw Prisoner and Goblet (I'm deaf so I need the captions/DVD). I loved the movies!

I have a lot of reading I'm behind on.. but I want to read all the HP books if I can ever find time.

[IRescue452]

No. The movies interest me, but I haven't picked up the book hype yet. I've read quite a bit of Harry Potter fan fic. I hear the director for the first two movies made them incredibly close to the book, but for the movies after that they changed a lot of info from the book. I think it would just annoy me to read it and see something different, as it does with lots of movies. Anyway, I prefer stuff that doesn't have a craze. I own both books and movies that are really good but never became popular. They are my forgotten treasures.

[SemaviLady]

Movies do certainly pale in comparison with the story telling depth of books.

I have never read the Tolkien books (not my childhood genre) yet I am absolutely a fan of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings series.