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Harry Potter
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: January 15, 2003 02:30PM
<HTML>for those who might be interested from Ananova (via Rob)
Harry Potter book to hit shops in June
The fifth instalment of Harry Potter will hit bookshelves on June 21.
The next JK Rowling novel about the boy wizard will be called Harry
Potter And The Order of the Phoenix.
It will be even longer than the last, at 255,000 words.
Goblet Of Fire, the fourth Potter outing, was 191,000 words.</HTML>
Harry Potter book to hit shops in June
The fifth instalment of Harry Potter will hit bookshelves on June 21.
The next JK Rowling novel about the boy wizard will be called Harry
Potter And The Order of the Phoenix.
It will be even longer than the last, at 255,000 words.
Goblet Of Fire, the fourth Potter outing, was 191,000 words.</HTML>
Re: Harry Potter
Posted by: Carla (---.cableinet.co.uk)
Date: January 15, 2003 06:15PM
<HTML>some shops will open at midnight. not sure if we will, maybe just a couple of branches...</HTML>
Re: Harry Potter
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cableinet.co.uk)
Date: January 15, 2003 10:09PM
<HTML>Hoho, good oh.
Looking forward to the, I am...</HTML>
Looking forward to the, I am...</HTML>
Re: Harry Potter
Posted by: dave (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: January 15, 2003 10:24PM
<HTML>reasonably excited by it all... will she have lost the plot? Will it be as good? Will Dumbles turn out to be Harry's grandfather? Is Snape really a Death-Eater?
all will be revealed, no doubt...</HTML>
all will be revealed, no doubt...</HTML>
Re: Harry Potter
Posted by: Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: January 15, 2003 10:28PM
<HTML>I've been advised not to read <i>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire</i> until I'm off the Prozac. Any comments on this?</HTML>
Re: Harry Potter
Posted by: dave (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: January 15, 2003 10:32PM
<HTML>It won't do your wrists any good, it weighs a ton. Get the audio book instead, Stephen Fry reading it all. Nearly 23 hours of it in total. Seen me right on many a car journey, that one has.</HTML>
Re: Harry Potter
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cableinet.co.uk)
Date: January 15, 2003 10:39PM
<HTML>Hehe.
Goblet of Fire is good, but far too long and loads of stuff she needn't have bothered with.
Don't get me wrong, I loved it still!</HTML>
Goblet of Fire is good, but far too long and loads of stuff she needn't have bothered with.
Don't get me wrong, I loved it still!</HTML>
Fowl language
Posted by: dave (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: January 15, 2003 10:40PM
<HTML>has anyone read 'Artemis Fowl' by Eoin Colfer?</HTML>
Re: Fowl language
Posted by: Jon (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: January 15, 2003 11:34PM
<HTML>I have ... it was alright, but a bit too contrived for it's own good, really. Some of the jokes were very feeble. (I mean, LEPReCon, I ask you).
And I shall not be getting excited about Harry Potter ... I read the first two and thought 'so what?' The only thing that made me lol were Bertie Botts' Beans. But then I never did like school stories much, and underneath all the magic crust they really are very conventional school stories. molesworth at hogwarts, that's something else, supposing any of you lot have ever heard of molesworth. it is a chiz.
(See <a href="http://www.stcustards.free-online.co.uk/intro.htm">St.
Custard's Online</a> or <a href="http://www.alice.dryden.co.uk/ho_for_hoggwarts.htm">Ho
for Hoggwarts!</a> if you want to kno more).</HTML>
And I shall not be getting excited about Harry Potter ... I read the first two and thought 'so what?' The only thing that made me lol were Bertie Botts' Beans. But then I never did like school stories much, and underneath all the magic crust they really are very conventional school stories. molesworth at hogwarts, that's something else, supposing any of you lot have ever heard of molesworth. it is a chiz.
(See <a href="http://www.stcustards.free-online.co.uk/intro.htm">St.
Custard's Online</a> or <a href="http://www.alice.dryden.co.uk/ho_for_hoggwarts.htm">Ho
for Hoggwarts!</a> if you want to kno more).</HTML>
Re: Fowl language
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: January 15, 2003 11:58PM
<HTML>Let's face it - there's only one must buy book coming out this summer...</HTML>
Re: Fowl language
Posted by: Carla (---.cableinet.co.uk)
Date: January 16, 2003 07:01AM
<HTML>but artemis fowl is directed at younger kids. adults when reading kids books should bear that in mind...
on the other hand, has anyone read Sabriel?</HTML>
on the other hand, has anyone read Sabriel?</HTML>
Re: Harry Potter
Posted by: Rob (---.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: January 16, 2003 09:29AM
<HTML>Getting back to Harry.
If the books are increasing in size so quickly, how long is the last book going
to be ?</HTML>
If the books are increasing in size so quickly, how long is the last book going
to be ?</HTML>
Re: Harry Potter
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: January 16, 2003 11:03AM
<HTML>it's going to be a three parter, one for each term of the school year. Except Harry has to re-sit his exams so it's another three books after that....
kerching... more money for JKR...
;-)</HTML>
kerching... more money for JKR...
;-)</HTML>
Re: Harry Potter
Posted by: Ooktavia (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: January 16, 2003 01:24PM
<HTML>Yes, I've read Sabriel, also the second one in the series, Lirael and I am eagerly waiting the third, Abhorsen. It's out soon!! I love the books, also the artwork on the hardback covers is beautiful. It's good to have a really strong female lead- she's work well with Thursday would Sabriel- Lirael is a bit more sorry for herself.
I think Minsky ma actually be related to the cat-spirit, Mogget, tho'. Just a hunch.
btw- did you know Garth Nix, the author, is an Australain, resident in Sydney?</HTML>
I think Minsky ma actually be related to the cat-spirit, Mogget, tho'. Just a hunch.
btw- did you know Garth Nix, the author, is an Australain, resident in Sydney?</HTML>
Re: Harry Potter
Posted by: Carla (198.179.227.---)
Date: January 16, 2003 02:41PM
<HTML>yes i knew that. i got the american Lirael (not out in the UK till the Summer) and I've pre ordered the american abhorsen on amazon, i hope to get it in a month or so. can't wait!</HTML>
Re: Harry Potter
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cableinet.co.uk)
Date: January 17, 2003 09:51PM
<HTML>lol..
The last book is going to be one of those that they have to stack one copy on each shelf of the bookstore... a whole lorry just for 16 copies, and everyone has to share. You know, one person starts reading it, then when they get to page 250 the next person starts behind them and so on and so forth. So you're reading in tandem, if you know what I mean.
Either that, or the last book will comprise of a single paragraph - 'Harry went to Hogwarts again and Voldemort turned up and got defeated by Mr Potter. Someone dies, someone gets sacked and someone else ends up learning a valuable lesson. Everyone lives happily ever after (except for Voldemort, his followers and the dead guy/gal).
What do you think?
I haven't read Sabriel, but I have read Artemis Fowl. It was a bit slow for me, then just as it began to pick up it ended. But then I guess it was a kiddies book. (But so is Harry Potter, so I shouldn't complain.)
And yes, the best book is being released this summer, a book of double Ffs...</HTML>
The last book is going to be one of those that they have to stack one copy on each shelf of the bookstore... a whole lorry just for 16 copies, and everyone has to share. You know, one person starts reading it, then when they get to page 250 the next person starts behind them and so on and so forth. So you're reading in tandem, if you know what I mean.
Either that, or the last book will comprise of a single paragraph - 'Harry went to Hogwarts again and Voldemort turned up and got defeated by Mr Potter. Someone dies, someone gets sacked and someone else ends up learning a valuable lesson. Everyone lives happily ever after (except for Voldemort, his followers and the dead guy/gal).
What do you think?
I haven't read Sabriel, but I have read Artemis Fowl. It was a bit slow for me, then just as it began to pick up it ended. But then I guess it was a kiddies book. (But so is Harry Potter, so I shouldn't complain.)
And yes, the best book is being released this summer, a book of double Ffs...</HTML>
Re: Harry Potter
Posted by: dave (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: January 17, 2003 10:19PM
<HTML>do we know when mr fforde's book is out?</HTML>
Re: Harry Potter
Posted by: Ooktavia (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: January 17, 2003 10:21PM
<HTML>Not soon enough!</HTML>
Re: Harry Potter
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cableinet.co.uk)
Date: January 19, 2003 05:24PM
<HTML>lol, that I agree with. I don't think he's set a release dat yet.
"Hey, Jasper! When aer you releasing your wonderful book?"
Think he heard, or should I shout louder?</HTML>
"Hey, Jasper! When aer you releasing your wonderful book?"
Think he heard, or should I shout louder?</HTML>
Re: Harry Potter
Posted by: Ooktavia (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: January 20, 2003 09:21PM
<HTML>Maybe we should all shout together.....
On three now!! 1... 2... 3...</HTML>
On three now!! 1... 2... 3...</HTML>
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