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General => Reviews => Topic started by: kv on December 22, 2006, 11:02:25 AM
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Okay, I know Stephen King and a couple of other authors begged her not to kill Harry in this last book, and then she won't say if she is or not... so I was curious what everyone thought. And if you voted that you didn't care, why the hell did you even vote?
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You asked, so I voted.
Good stories could result from either choice.
With a skilled writer anyway.
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I'm not a partularly big HP fan, so I really don't care if he survives or not.
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lol, guess I'll be the first to answer that cares. I think she'll leave harry alive because so many people have become atatched to him that if he died there would be a huge uproar.
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I think he will be left alive, but I do know that she has said she does NOT want ANYONE to write about her characters EVER. In an invterview, JKR said she didn't want someone digging up the rights to the characters after she died and fraggin' them up like Lord of the Rings. So who can really say.
Gabriel
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Yeah, but they can do that whether or not she kills them off- just write it as "one of the additional adventures of Harry Potter!"
-kv
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Not very plausibly, thoguh.
Gabriel
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...I do know that she has said she does NOT want ANYONE to write about her characters EVER. In an invterview, JKR said she didn't want someone digging up the rights to the characters after she died and fraggin' them up ....
Gabriel
Thats why Harry is toast. She'll kill him and probably someone nice like a Weasley parent, just to make him extra miserble before she offs him. She's a completely selfish writer who has all ready told the legion of fans who made her as rich as the queen, that she doesn't want to hear from them if they don't like what she does. I say if she does something the fans hate she has to suck it up and deal with their ire.
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Well, I guess she can cry big crocodile tears on her millions when the fans make her sad.
I saw Black's death coming- but Dumbeldore's death caught me off guard.
Honestly, I'm curious how the series is going to end.
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Badly.
Gabriel
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No, I don't see it ending badly- I'm sure that no matter which route she takes, there will be people critisizing her decision.
I mean, Stephen King even flew to England to ask her not to kill Harry in the last book. As if he had any say in who's characters get killed.
I think it would be a good end to the story- but at least one major character has to die- either Harry or Voldemort have to kick the bucket, and I think it's possible that they're connected somehow, so both of them will die if either one has to.
I think that's the direction things are going.
-kv
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I'm picturing the "heroic last stand" kind of thing where Harry dies but takes Voldomort out in the process.
Gabriel
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Harry's the last horcrux, watch
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That would just be dumb. But, yeah, I can see it happening that way.
Gabriel
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hehe, I may pull a gabe on this one ;D
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Yo. my .02 nuyen opinion (i got some worth more but im so broke i cant spare that much)..
Im kind of at the point where im not caring about what happens, i started reading when the first movie came out and have been reading sense, and.. well.. the more whiny bitchy harry gets the more i kinda wish someone would.. i dont know.. hit him with something.. perferably large and blunt. some place to non-vital.. just to knock the emo outta him. My real dissapointment is the movies.. they have been going down hill as fast as a s*it boulder chasing Indiana Jones since the prisoner of azkaban(sp). ... I think i lost my point some where in the rambling... *inserts another .02 nuyen*
Anyways, i dont think she'll kill him. Sorta seems shes the kind who would leave him alive, and when she wants little more pocket money would have no qualms about digging it all up and writing some more books of him grown up or whatever.
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I hope she publishes the lost sex scenes with Hermione and Jenny. Kind of a Harry Potter companion type of thing. ;)
Gabriel
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Really? I'd have figured you wanted the ones with Harry, Draco and Snape.
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LOL, no, I'll leave those scense to Kid_Vid.
Gabriel
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Hey Gabe- you're the only one with the gay fan-fic Harry Potter collection.
As I remember it, you're the one who tracked down that horrifying image.
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You just don't like to admit that I was able to pirate it from your personal SAN. ;)
Gabriel
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There is a difference between "pirating" and "planting," good buddy.
Although I guess you can be forgiven. Gay Troll Pr0n Sims can make you a little disoriented, I hear.
-kv
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You would be the expert in SimPorn. Tell me, after a setion of Gay Troll "Wrestling" Sims, do you walk funny for a while???
Gabriel
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this is getting disturbing... :-X
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Oh, ick, did that thread ever crash and burn, anyone get the plate number of the truck?
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Well, maybe Kid_Vid's "friend" is the troll from the first movie?? See, right back on track. ;)
Gabriel
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<sigh>
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OK, so to get off of Harry Potter himself for a second, who thinks that Snape is going to get killed off? Personally, I think that Snape's love for Harry's mother will come out and it may be him who finally kills Voldomort. I definately think he will die off in this one, but I think maybe he will go out as the "misunderstood martyr" for the Order of the Pheonix.
Gabriel
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good theory but I have this crazy feeling it might be ron's dad. Don't really know why...
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You know, I can see that happening.
Gabriel
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I hope she publishes the lost sex scenes with Hermione and Jenny. Kind of a Harry Potter companion type of thing. ;)
dang
I was gonna mention that
oh and dont forget Cho, Cho has to be in there somewhere
and maybe the Patel twins
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speaking of fan fic
I guess i should first state that I do like the books
however
one HUGE glaring bit of irony about the HP books that has always bothered me is this. According to the (albeit sketchy) definition of the "Mary Sue" phenomenon in fan fiction, is that by the definition, Harry himself is a Mary Sue character.
atleast IMHO
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Wait... what? Who the hell is Mary Sue?
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Wait... what? Who the hell is Mary Sue?
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ah
here (http://www.subreality.com/marysue/explain.htm)
and here (http://www.fictionalley.org/primer/essays/ms.html)
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Actually, according to those definitions, Mary Sue is the fan fic character- someone who comes in and steals the story (as per Lt. Mary Sue- the youngest lieutenant in starfleet! where the name apparently originated.)
The main character in a story can't really be critisized for... stealing thier own story. If they were, Drizzt from R.A. Salvatore's writings would totally and completely qualify.
Of course, maybe that's just because I hate Drizzt.
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my point is, he fits the description, even though he is the "main character"
I think the books might be better with less focus on Harry
but thats just my opinion
and yeah I stopped reading the Salvatore stuff a long time ago
read the first two series, and they were okay but that was enough for me
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I stopped reading Salvatore when Drizz't put the bracers of speed (doubles the number of attacks per round) on his ankles instead of his wrists because he thought he footwork was suffering. I just had to shake my head a leave.
Gabriel
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I... really didn't need to know that...
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Well, it's the same time I finally said "Uhhh... what? How did he get his feet in there?"
I mean, suspension of disbelief is my thing, and even I had to stop at that.
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Well, it's the same time I finally said "Uhhh... what? How did he get his feet in there?"
I mean, suspension of disbelief is my thing, and even I had to stop at that.
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well most groups i'd played AD&D with had the understanding that magical equipment since it was magical would change to fit the wearer. Hence a halfling and a dragon could potentially wear the same magic ring.
or it could be that since they are bracers they strap on and could then be put on a drow if he didnt have beefy calves
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Yeah, but does it make sense that the item would change itself so that it could be worn wrong?
I mean, if I already have a set of bracers, can I just put this second set on my legs? If not, why not? I mean, they change shape to fit me and everything, I can just slip them on.
Mostly I think it was bad writing, and ol Bob Salvatore saying that footwork was more important than armspeed when it came to fighting. I don't know if that is the truth- most of my fights have involved actually hitting people. The more you hit them, the shorter the fight gets. But what do I know?
This does raise an interesting question for me, though. If you can force magic items onto places on your body that they weren't designed for, how many rings can you really wear? D&D canon says only two, but if you could wear them as braclets, anklets, armbands, headbands, and the like, how many could you really cram on your body?
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Not to mention those other eight fingers and ten toes.
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I think the Al-Quadeem (sp?) setting actually allowed you to use 2 extra rings - in the ears.
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Well, can't one wear two rings; one set of gloves OR bracers; one amulet; one girdle/belt; one hat/headband; and one set of shoes/boots. And then there is the whole purchase of magic device slots - like creating a magical device brooch or something?
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Yup- brooches and earrings aren't covered, and are considered a "free" slot. So you can wear 15 brooches like an old lady- or fill up those ears with peircings!
Yeah, are three rules about magical toerings?
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Exactly.
I prefer the SR version to be honest.
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I haven't actually gotten into focuses with my group of runners- a couple of them are playing adepts, but they're not so much focused on the magic (or sneaking) as they are on kicking ass in combat.
Maybe sometime soon I'll show them the weapon focus rules and let them drool.
"No, it's not dikoted, it just does four extra dice worth of damage. For each and every attack."
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And see, this is one os the reasons I hate D&D so much: magic has become so damn mundane. NO ONE walks around anymore wihtout some kind of magic. Hell, even peasants might have an Ion Stone or some goofy Broach of Pleasant Smells or some such crap. It completely ruins the impact of magic.
Gabriel
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You apparently haven't ever played in my games. I grew up reading books like Dragonlance, so I've always kind of liked the idea that magic was rare (or at least horribly feared).
For the campaign I just started with some friends, there are spellcasters, but as of yet (after about five sessions, and about three levels later) still no one has a magical item.
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Then you are the exception. Every published adventure in D&D has some many magic items dripping out of it I'm surprised the Minestry of Magic isn't sitting there with padded gloves to hand them out.
Gabriel
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We almost never ran into magic unless we were high enough level to take out a dragon or some other magic collecting monster. Prior to that we tended to find a lot of archaic weaponry - some good, some bad. The only low lever party we ever had that kept running into magic scrolls and such included my barbarian who had a distinct tendency to instantly destroy - without consultation - any and all magic items we ran across. The GM thought it was hysterical when the other guyz tore their hair out over this foible :)
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it's completly up to the GM if you should get magic. So it's not the game's fault
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Yeah, which is weird that magic items are so prevalent. My group of friends who play D&D on a regular basis recently had an Ebberon campaign (the new campaign setting, where magic is common enough that it's possible and not even unheard of to have magical dishwasers), and we STILL Had no magical items. None. Out of a group of four players.
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see, that's my point. D&D has gotten alot better with 3rd edition.
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Still would rather play Warhammer or Shadowrun. I like my games more gritty and actually fleshed out. D&D is way too nebulous and disconnected. Too many races and none of them make any real difference in the game setting. Magic runs amok, there are WAY too many civilizations to actually exist on any given world, and there is no realy underlying plotline or current development.
Gabriel
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That's why you gotta build your own universe.
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Well, the only real difference I see between D&D and Shadowrun is the sets of dice used. And some of the mechanics are different.
I mean, d20 Modern has more of a cyberpunk feel to it, but at the same time, I like that in a d20 game, you have the chance to be a hero. When's the last time a shaodwrunner went back for that teammate that had fallen under a hail of gunfire? When't he last time they actually survived?
I know that d20 isn't as realistic as Shadowrun (at least, not as realistic as 3rd Edition... I have my doubts about the realism of 4th Edition), but it doesn't have to be. D&D is based on Tolkien, and d20 games are thier modern counterparts (so, for a zombie campaign, I would prefer to use d20 modern instead of Shadowrun, even though I usually prefer to play Shadowrun.)
Of course, you play Warhammer, and that's not really my thing, either. I just think it might be which you were exposed to first. Like whether WoD is biting on FASA, or the other way around...
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I still say all of the stuff complained about again is up the the GM. Not the fault of D&D. Don't get me wrong Gabe, I much prefer WFRP, but D&D is second place. Especially now with the customizability. So, you think Harry Potter can cast magic missiles at the darkness?
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I still say all of the stuff complained about again is up the the GM. Not the fault of D&D.
exactly
most of the DMs I know run lowmagic games. In mine I am pretty stingy with them as well. Noone in the party has better than a +1 weapon. I only gave them those because i wanted to throw things that req magic to damage at them and let them have a chance at survival. In some parts of my world magic is feared, others hated and in a friends game the use of magic is severly controlled by the government.
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sweet! :)
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Well I think everyone starts out playing D&D. It's like PRG training wheels. Eventually you move on. And yes, D&D is customizable,a nd taht works to it's advantage. The only problem is that at a certain point you reach an oversaturation of customizability and end up with a world of completely disconnected and trivial plot elements and environments. A talented GM can certainly forge those into a good campaing, but the game world itself is still intrinsicly shoddy.
And as for Harry Potter, I'm wondering how long it will take Rowling to cave into demands and release an RPG based on the books. Remember, in England and most of the rest of Europe, role playing is much more widley accepted than it is in the states.
Gabriel
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that actually might be pretty cool. I myself wouldn't run it. I'm sticking to warhammer
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Yeah, I don't know that I would run a game in Harry-Potterdom, just because I'd be a little freaked out by the sort of people who would be attracted to said game.
I worked at a movie theater for a few of those movies, and those people scare the crap out of me. I mean, at least it keeps them from shooting up high schools and stuff, but wowsers.
I kinda like the fact that roleplaying games are more acceptable outside of the United States- it makes me feel like I'm not so alone.
Of course, for the shadowrun game we had on sunday, we had 14 people show up. We might need to start splitting into two or more groups so everyone can get a chance to play.
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I cant see an actual RPG being made on Potters world, Its just not that filled out, its like a giant fluffy pillow you pay a fortune for, it feels so good to lay down your head, but after a few seconds you realized its caved in on itself and theres nothing there. cept Potter has more emo and angst.
as for RPGs, i never got into Dnd, mainly cause the group i "started" (5 minutes into the first game i just walked out and started rping on-line and checking out other systems) i wanted to try 3, and spend the 100 on the core three books, only to find that a week later they released 3.5, and expected me to buy Brand new books with a few small changes, for the price of the older books. After that i sold off all my old DND junk save the small tidbit book here and there for writing ideas and havent looked back.
These days if im looking for a Mideval style game i got 3 places i go, EarthDawn, Exalted, and Runequest 2nd edition. some where i even have a warhammer fantasy RPG book buried i should dig up again. The system just seemd to convoluted in 2nd edition and all that, and when i say the first 5 minutes of the game, thats not counting the nearly several hours trying to figure out how thaco worked. and the character creation just was.. meh.
theres no customization enless your GM has his own point buy, their own was... yeah. nothing like playing a hero who's stats are so low he bruises at a stiff breeze; or allows you to choose where you put the amount you rolled (never much problem for me.. rolling for stats i had a character that turned out straight 18s on all his stat.) but when i make a character i want to make the character, not get some numbers and try to figure it out from there.
And with 3rd, i never even got the chance to play before 3.5 came out, and every game i came across insisted that you have 3.5 or your not playing.
I'm just not a DND fan. I'll stick to good old fashioned SR (where even if most of the people you run with are back stabbing scabs, theres usually about 2 people willing to go back for you when your down [If only to make sure you dont give the guards their names]) Runequest (Because for the first time it is actually cool and fun to be in a cult to insane gods!), Earthdawn (What can i say.. It rocks!) and Exalted (Where you can play either the well done wire-fu action movie with a point, or the mindless anime characters who's body development goes against physics (5'5 guys with 700lbs of heavy muscle on their frames, yet still able to move, and woman with chainmail bikinis and a rack you wouldnt mind stretching out on, and quite possibly Could stretch out on..)
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ya know, I've played earthdawn. I love the world. The system isn't all that bad. It's just hard to find a group for it anywhere. Ah well. Maybe I'll run it again one day...
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Have you looked into Pendragon, North? There may still be books out there somewhere.
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I've never even heard of that one. Details??
Gabriel
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Pendragon?
Unsurprisingly, it's set during the reign of King Arthur (or just before, if you have the Boy King book). Well, actually in an an-historic period that's pretty much an amalgam of various versions of the Arthurian myth cycle.
Player characters are knights (in much the same way as SR characters are 'runners: there are alternatives, but they are pretty much secondary, and largely ignored, atleast by the 4th edition book that I have.), and as such do knightly stuff: Fight wars, defeat monsters, save damsels, get cursed, aquire holdings, go to tourneys, mess around with other peoples' wifes, go hunting, go questing, etc.
It uses a variant of the 'basic'-system, which you may know from Call of Chthulhu, but with a set of traits and passions. It's one of the earliest games I've seen to give a statline of sorts to a character's personality (and not just a silly boring alignment like d20 and it's predessesors), which helps you gain fame and glory if they (the traits) get extreme.
Ofcourse, as one player remarked to me, the easy path to glory (besides being filthy rich), is to get married early, and often.
Actually a cute little game, striking a decent enough balance between heroic fantazy and pseudo-realism.
Ofcourse, I must admit I mainly use the books as sources of inspiration for Ars Magica.
All that being said, we're getting a tad far off topic here people.
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you think harry potter likes to roleplay?
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I don't think he'd need to. Unless of course he played Highschool and Homework: the game of modern day normal students. After all, you RPG games that you DON'T live. Besides, I don't think he'll survive book 7 anyway. Can't play an RPG in the grave.
Gabriel
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eh, don't know about that dude. We'll have to see...July 21st
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Actually, you know there will be a big release of information about the book about a day after it comes out. Some douche bag will get on the internet and announce what happens. Just like it happened with "Snape kills Dumbledore!!"
Gabriel
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yea, that's why I won't go looking for that kinda stuff
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Niether will I, however, I think it will make the news if he does bite the big one. Try keeping that under wraps. Then look back at it in 20 years and wonder why the frag we cared.
Gabriel
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I do! I hate it when someone ruins a story for me!
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Hey, I bet the people who were standing in line for Empire Strikes Back and heard someone talking about Vader being Luke's father still remember. Oh, I bet they remember and are still a tiny bit upset about it.
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I bet they are. We all know that nerds hold grudges. Personally, I'm thinking we will hear the end of the series about 2 days after the release.
Gabriel
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Honestly, I tend to go into a reading coma, where I do very little other than read for like a day and a half, two days. I can finish a good book in that time (unless it was written by Robert Jordan), and I usually get to the end before anyone can ruin it for me.
I also avoid the internet when I'm reading, so I don't have anyone who flipped open to the end and just blurts out the ending to worry about.
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Oh, I think we are talking Cultural Phenomena with this one. You won't be able to avoid hearing about it. Mark my words.
Gabriel
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Yeah, but if I read it before anyone else can ruin it, I'll be fine! So I'll cut myself off from the entire world while I finish the book, and then no matter what anyone says, I'll already know what happens...
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That might work. Personally, I am going to have to wait for the paperback edition to come out before I read it. I have all the others in PB and I hate to ruin a set.
Gabriel
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You might want to avoid this thread after the books comes out then, because we will be discussing frustrations and anger about the ending.
-kv
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LOL, no kidding. Just mark a Spoiler Warning.
Gabriel
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yea, I plan on getting it the day it comes out. So I'll avoid the thread till I finish reading it.
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Yeah, official spoiler warning. We will be discussing tne end of the last Harry Potter book... once it comes out.
-kv
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Thanks drek-head.
Gabriel
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I own the first 5 books, but I haven't finished the 4th one yet. I kinda lost interest in it. It seems the books kept getting longer and longer, and I don't really have the time to spend reading over a thousand pages...although if it was Shadowrun, I can always sacrifce some sleep for that!!! ;D
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My favortie was book 6. It got really dark and nasty in that one, and you got the backstory on Voldomort, which was dreadfully lacking in all of the other books.
Gabriel
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My family was way into the series, but I think once they got heavily involved in WoW their interest died out. They have all the books, as well as on CD...so on those long rides to work they could listen to them. But I don't know if they are getting the last one or not.
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I intend to borrow the hardback from a firend and then wait and get the paperback when it hits the shelf.
Gabriel
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I intend to borrow the hardback from a firend
Really?
Well, optimism might be rewarded, so might still be a chance for you.
Mind you, I'm curious... firend?
Some sort of Fiend? Fire entity? or?
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It's a term for a smart-assed Eurpean Grammar Nazi. ;)
Gabriel
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Ah. Well, seeing as how we don't have any of those around, no need to worry, eh.
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lol, good exchange there :)
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No comment.
Gabriel
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holy drek, gabe has no comment! mark this date on your calender!
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Hey now, I like being verbose. Just be glad I'm not posting 5 paragraph responses anymore.
Gabriel
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yea, that was always a pain to read. You ranting that long gives me a headache
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Well, you and Ruski going back and forth, typing paragraph after paragragh expounding nothing... it gave me a headache too, and it was ... just pointless.
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that's gabe, pointless ;D
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You two are just jealous that my mind works on such a profound level.
Gabriel
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BUAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
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See there, the ignorant always scoff at what they can't understand. ;)
Gabriel
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Is "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA" the sound of scoffing? I thought scoffing had a more "P-shaw!" sound to it. I guess you're on a whole 'nother level from us little people.
P-shaw.
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And there you have it.
Gabriel
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me? scoff? naaaa, that was histerical laughter
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Yeah, Jester doesn't have the IQ to scoff.
Gabriel
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Well, plenty of people scoffed at Ray Bradbury when he said that someday people would walk on the moon- he was at a cocktail party, and he took down the names of people who laughed at him, and when the US landed on the moon, he called them up and reminded them that they had laughed at him.
Scoffing isn't about brains.
Although it can be- just ask Galileo and the smartest people of his time.
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thankyou KV
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I per ordered my copy tuesday. So I'll be getting this in the mail :)
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Is it nerdy that I hope someone in my family stands in line all night, just so I don't have to?
I'm still planning on reading it as fast as humanly possible.
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SPOILER LIST
#1
Jesus Dies at the end!
#2
He gets better and comes back in the sequel!
#3
Gandalf Dies at the end!
#4
He gets better and comes back in the sequel!
#5
Obi-Wan Kenobi dies!
#6
But he becomes more powerful than we could ever imagine!
#7
The Empire is defeated by Ewoks!
#8
Soylent Green is people!
#9
And it was Earth all along. . .
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lol. anyway, you could just pre order it, KV. I got it from amazon for like 23 bucks with shipping. That's cheaper than waiting in line to buy it at the store
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#9 is the original Planet of the Apes, right?
"DAAAA-A-AMN YOU!"
Ooh, can I add to the list?
#10 - Neo really is the Chosen One!
#11 - He's dead the entire time!
#12 - The Aliens are alergic to water!
#13 - The martians get the flu and die! God made the flu, so God wins!
#14 - They're not really living in the 1870s!
#15 - Samuel Jackson is the villian!
#16 - Bruce Willis is a superhero!
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We should make a thread game, like the picture association one, in which we lay out details until someone guesses the movie being described. . .
But we might run out of ideas too fast. . .
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We might, but we might not. Why don't you start it, and start with the most obscure details that you can think of. The person who guesses what it is chooses a new movie.
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that sounds like fun
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I've played a similar game where you get 5 chances... You start with the hardest clue and that is worth 5 points and work you way down to the 1 point almost a giveaway clue. The movie Transporter 2 has a game similar to that he plays with the kid. Anyway you have like 20 movies to guess and whoever has the most points afterwards wins. Usually it involves heavy drinking.
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loll woo hoo!
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So, who is starting us off, and what does this have to do with Harry Potter?
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It doesn't have to do with Harry Potter...it simply was brought up off topic, and I think Jester was suppose to start us off!
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I started a new thread. Under the Reviews tab, as it deals with movies. Maybe it should be in general, but it likely doesn't matter. Have fun folks!
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Okay I read it, I'll try to stay spoiler free.
a big chunk of the first third I found unutterably slow. After that I thought she handled the casualties in a kind of paint by numbers fashion. I expected just about everything that happened with only two exceptions; one I'm okay with one I disapprove of, but since it was so casually handled there wasn't much of an emotional impact.
I guess over all I'd have to give it maybe a C plus.
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I'll give it an A. I thought it was the best one. Kinda hard to really say anything without giving stuff away...
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I finished it myself and I would have to give it a B. It was about what I expected but I was hoping for a bit more closure at the end.
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Despite my ongoing belief she really needs a hard assed editor, I'd have to give the 'best' nod to her first. It was after all the scene setter, and rather inventive.
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You wanted MORE closure at the end? How is that even possible?
You did read the chapter "Nineteen Years Later," right?
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Yeah, but what did the brother's do with the shop especially because of what happened in the end in the castle? What jobs did everybody get, not counting Neville? How are the Weasley Parents? Basically, things like this? Who got to be Prime Minister? These are the things that I wanted to know.
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That's what we have fanfic for.
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Yeah, and I'm sure after J.K. is dead, they'll bastardize her characters, legitimize fanfic, and her son/daughter will get credit for "an all new adventure!" and then complain that thier parent got shafted on the movie rights. ;D
Wait... I'm thinking Herbert and Tolkein.
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http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/7/30/j-k-rowling-web-chat-transcript
spoiler alert! Read here for some answers
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Heh. I guess that answers a lot of Apoc's questions.
-kv
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I finished it myself and I would have to give it a B. It was about what I expected but I was hoping for a bit more closure at the end.
Sorry chummer, but if she got into all of that drek, we would have been reading a Stphen King Novel. Quite often, an ending in the vein of HO #7 is the best way to end a story. You get closure for the main characters, and yet it leaves enough material opened to interpretation to let your imagination fill in the blanks. It also stops an uneccessarily long and drawn out quasihistory of the entire setting, which ultimately degrades the work.
And I've said it before, and I'll say it again: J. K. Rowling is not a very good author (although she has improved tremendously since #1) but she had a good story. J. R. R. Tolkein was the same way. Great story, drekky writing style. And at least you can't say that the Harry Potter books were "derivitive of Tolkien" like nearly every other fantasy work gets labled these days.
Gabriel
Gabriel
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I've also heard she's thinking of writing a book that takes place in those 19 years and donate the proceeds to charity.
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I agree with Gabe (surprisingly) She really isn't a good writer. She has good ideas and an okay sense of story - but technically, I can write rings around her and I'm never going to be as rich as her. How fair is that.
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life is never fair...
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Well, the fact that she's filthy stinking rich is less about her writing and more about the fact that she was able to hold onto the ownership of her characters. If she hadn't done that, someone else would have been making a crapload of money on those movies. For instance, Tolkien got screwed out of the liscencing for his characters- he ran into tax troubles in the 70s, and a movie studio (lucky enough to be there at that time) offered to pay him enough to settle his problem.
I smell a shadowrun, but whatev.
I think that's the main reason that Christopher Tolkien refused to support the movies.
So controlling liscencing of your characters = filthy stinking rich (i.e. George Lucas).
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Have you ever read Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman? Interesting parallels between Tim Hunter and Harry Potter. Nothing actionable. At least Neil never thought so. But the basic idea at the bone was his first...