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anyone who knows... can you PM hu gets killed....
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ive read 70 pages of it, no 1's been killed yet

just got it , starting reading it nowish

Chapter 3 bizznatch

I just got the book

* TD runs around the room madly

wooo I'm so excited

These are the only books i read...I CANT WAIT

I can't wait to read this book, the books have been getting constantly darker; I really hope this one isn't pure dark, since without any lighter moments in the book it risks sucking. However OOTP didn't seem to have that many lighter moments, yet still managed to be a fantastic book. I have the summer holidays to read it, but unfortunately I also have to read Pride and Prejudice for English Lit, I just hope I don't get the two confused, its confusing reading two books side-by-side .

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Originally posted by Sasuke
books are for prisoners, poor people, and people with no cable.

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Utter Uber-BS.
It takes a certain kind of intelligence to be able to sit down and concentrate on a book.
With a TV you are just sent audio and visual streams. And the bulk of it doesn't require much intelligence to work out what is going on, there are many exceptions to that rule, but still it is mostly true.
However with books like this, it lets you go deeper into the story and actually improves skills such as imagination without you even knowing.

chapter 6 woot!

some interesting facts...

• Due to book discounts and free shipping offers online booksellers like Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble will make no money off of the pre sales of "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince", but must rely entirely on the sale of other books on the same customer order.
  
  
• Friday evening more people lined up at bookstores for the release of "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" than for the opening night of "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith".
  
  
• Contrary to the belief that the Harry Potter book series encourages literacy by its mere popularity, most fans of Harry Potter do not read books unrelated to the series.
  
  
• Due to massive presales for "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" UPS and FedEx drivers are currently processing more packages than at any time of year other than Christmas.
  
  
• "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" marks the first Harry Potter book which publishers in other countries will change the location of Hogwarts and the ethnicity of the characters to match their own audience

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Originally posted by saralk
"Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" marks the first Harry Potter book which publishers in other countries will change the location of Hogwarts and the ethnicity of the characters to match their own audience

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O_o? WTF?


I've never read the Harry Potter books... I dunno, it sounds childish. My mom was like:" I'll buy you the book for your bday." Meh, how would I understand anything? lol, she'd have to buy all 6.

Though all this advertising is kind of doing what it's meant to do... I'm getting curious. Why everyone likes HP? What's so good about it? Or is it just to be "cool"? Don't answer, these are my thoughts.

I might end up buying the first book. Would be interesting to get the answers to the previous questions...

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Originally posted by Regexp
Though all this advertising is kind of doing what it's meant to do... I'm getting curious. Why everyone likes HP? What's so good about it? Or is it just to be "cool"? Don't answer, these are my thoughts.

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I like Harry Potter because its a great book, JKR is a really talented writer, who has the ability to write in such a manner that it is accessible to all ages. People who are really young appreciate the book on a superficial level, just following the main storyline, but older readers understand the deeper meanings behind the book and realise that it is as sophisticated as something by Tolkein.