all you harry potter people

julie124 · Post by **julie124** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 7:48 am

The new harry potter book is now out!!! wooo hooo! lol i never rea any of them myself, my my friend is soooo excited, yep

Gamer_V · Post by **Gamer_V** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 7:53 am

Anybody know people that were camping in front of a store?

julie124 · Post by **julie124** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:01 am

people probabley were, if my friend was around the store that had them, she woulda slept out to get it, but the thing is here you had the option since before christmas to pay 6 bucks for them to save you a copy to buy so your garunteed to get one

Post by **dosraider** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 10:58 am

The whole hype around H.P. seems far away from where i reside, but in the Belgium main cities it also seems to spread. Some people organised some lecture party's in stores t'll the moment they may sell the new H.P.
They don't hurt others, and they look happy, so why not.
As long they let me live in peace I don't have any problem with their behaviour.
Live and let live I guess................

julie124 · Post by **julie124** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 2:34 pm

yea that sound good dosraider

Post by **emmzee** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:50 pm

At least kids are READING! The H.P books get the

from me for that reason alone ... reading books is now more socially acceptable! And that's a great thing. Although it almost seems that more adults than kids are reading these now ... (FWIW, I read the 1st H.P book, thought it was okay, haven't read any of the others.)

julie124 · Post by **julie124** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 6:45 pm

I didnt read them yet, but its on my to do list, my friend is obsessed , and im planning on getting alone of the books, so yea

Post by **dosraider** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:52 am

What is (for me) questionable here is that there are library's filled with great well-written classics, and yet, they seems only to know the HP books.
The only thing they know about the Greek wars is by Troy, yes, Troy the story that hollywood so grandiously has raped, what a joke.
Lord of the rings ? same thing here, who ever read the Tolkien books ? I have, the first time I've read them I must been about 13-14 years.....I have to say the movies are nice, but they can't compete with the books, no way.
Gonna stop here, or I'm gonna be busy the whole evening.......hehe.

Enjoy your HP's, but I doubt they will be still around in let say 2000 years...

julie124 · Post by **julie124** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:57 am

lol, yea the movie cant touch the lotr books, and i doubt they will be around in 2000 years

Gamer_V · Post by **Gamer_V** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 3:14 pm

Kids are reading? Neh, they just see the movies.

julie124 · Post by **julie124** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 4:49 pm

alot of people read, some kids do

may not be alot but ya know, theres a few that would rather read the books, me for example

Post by **Wally** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:29 pm

MEh.. There wasnt a real rush around my local town

I walked into a store called "Big.W" which had them on sale for $22.00 AUS

They had 400 or so copies. I could easily walk to the stand take one and buy it along with 2 cartoon DVDs.

julie124 · Post by **julie124** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:33 pm

heoly shit they went nuts around here

Post by **Wally** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:35 pm

well this was the day after the sale i guess.
There were people buying them but i guess all books were pre ordered

julie124 · Post by **julie124** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:37 pm

yea there were pre order books here since long before christmas

Dosser · Post by **Dosser** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:02 pm

There really hasn't been the same hype as there was for the last one. I didn't even know it was being released until yesterday. I haven't heard of anyone (normal people) doing freaky things like camping in front of book stores (though I have heard people say they would read the books before noon, after the book was released at 9:30: they are probably liars).

John The Ax · Post by **John The Ax** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:11 pm

There were a lot of parties for this one, though. Most bookstores had parties that went until midnight.

Anyhow, I got mine at Target today. Only $17, and they had TONS of them. Course, they printed 10 mil for the US release alone...

julie124 · Post by **julie124** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:53 am

holy shit thats crazy, i know the ending, one of my friends sent it to me on msn :Angry: i wasnt pleased and also theres a video on ebaums world, this guy went past a store where there were piles of people waiting to get their books and he shouted out the ending and everyone started shouting and everything, its kinda funny, but it sucks when you didnt wanna know the ending

Post by **dosraider** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:24 am

Now you see Julie124, that is the difference between a really good book and a so-so book. When the book is really good, it doesnt matter if you know the ending, the book itself and the structure is binding your mind. Not some kind of hype around it.
Hmmm, that really doesn't sound as I wanted, hmm, maybe I should try babelfish one day.....

julie124 · Post by **julie124** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:27 am

lol, yea some books i wouldnt liek to know the ending to , but others it dont matter, i knew what was going ot happen when i read hitch hikers guide, cause my friend told me, as the same for lotr, didnt bother me at all