Harry Potter

**Oggyflute** · 06-23-2007, 12:08 AM

I've read all of them, they are a nice easy read.

**AdoreMyDogs** · 06-23-2007, 01:00 AM

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.

**mrspunkysmom** · 06-23-2007, 11:16 PM

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** · 06-24-2007, 11:37 AM

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** · 06-25-2007, 01:49 PM

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** · 06-29-2007, 04:57 PM

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** · 06-29-2007, 05:43 PM

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** · 06-29-2007, 06:16 PM

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.

**Suki Wingy** · 06-30-2007, 12:18 PM

You mean how many times have you read the books! At least 3 times each. 20 more days to get my slytherin uniform together for the midnight release of DH!!!!!
I remember in 1997-8 in 3rd grade my teacher read the first book and I couldn't wait for my birthday to get my own copy to read along.
I have the US hard copy of S/P S and the US hard copy and the UK hard copy of CoS, the US paperback of PoH, the US paperback and the UK hard copy of GoF, the US paperback of OoP, and the US hard copy of HBP.