Harry Pothead...Er Potter And The Half Blood Prince
 

I bet there are tons of HP haters around here but for the people who do like the books (heaven help you if you like the movies) I've made a topic for the new book! I was at a party for the new book which went on until midnight then you could buy the book. I'm not very far on the book yet so I can't really say anything but the party I went to was very fun.

I'm a big Harry Potter fan but not one of the people that base there lives around Harry Potter and the merchandise. I hate the movies because they suck and don't follow the book. I also hate the movies because they made Harry Potter extreamly popular and people love bashing popular things thus starting Hate Harry Potter fanbases. Even though I hate the movies my fandom makes me see the movies anyway so I will be going to see the new movie coming out no matter how bad it looks.

I think Harry Potter should be popular but not as popular as it is....

That is the geekiest thing I've ever heard. Not you going there, there being a party at all. ECKSDEE.

Actually, the movies followed quite closely to the books, except foor that poltergeist guy, Jeeves or whatever. I haven't read the books in some time, but I have read them inthe premovie hype.

It sucks anyway. Wow! School of Wizardry! Makes me think of geeks with big glasses playing Dungeons and Dragons...

Yeah totally, Harry Potter makes me cringe like I did in that photo of me...

Hmmmm. The only thing I didn't like about the movies was how Chris Columbus made them like a Barny movie.

[QUOTE=Super Munch]That is the geekiest thing I've ever heard. Not you going there, there being a party at all. ECKSDEE.=QUOTE]

There were at least two partys going on in near my town! And don't worry they were not as geeky as you think except for the people who dressed up as Harry Potter and ran around with a broom. From what the people said 250 to 300 people attened the party all of them bought a book and some even bought two books or there where the really geeky people who bought three or more books. If you get past the geeks it was an ok party most people wern't even geeks to start with...

Yes, those were the days. True, the geekiest of fans are the weirdos who come to the opening night of a Harry Potter movie and are all like "Oh look at me! I'm Harry Potter!"

Actually there were tons of small-to-moderate yet extremely important details that were in the third book that they left out of the movie. What was the point of leaving out all this stuff? To shorten the movie down to its hour-and-a-half length? Maybe they were counting on everyone going to see it A) being a little kid or B) having ADD. (don't you dare hassle me about not being PC or whatever, by golly)

And how are they going to be able to do the rest of the series? The actors are now what, fifteen? Sixteen? And they've only gotten through three movies? I laugh heartily at their poor planning. :lol: Dumb schmucks.

Not any of the above stuff matters. Harry Potter, in addition to being highly overrated and fanaticised and whatnot, sucks.

Oh, and Dark Oddworld, the closing tag should be [/quote].

Harry Potter, I saw the first three movies without reading the books I liked the movies a lot as well but still never found time to actually sit down and read the books. After spending the last month finally making time, I actually read the first five books and ended up loving them.

I just finished number six tonight and it left a pretty big impact on me especially for spoilerish reasons...

Thats why I hate the movies!

The book is very depthed and detailed while the movie leaves almost all the depth and detail out.

I despide it all. There was a time when i enjoyed it. Before several things - mass selling out with films and action figures and little retards dressed as dumblearse. And the forth book. Which i thought was poor beyond belief.

I'd spoil the new book but that would be mean of me...

Why didn't you like the forth book? I thought it was ok....

My favorite book is book five. I thought it was more intresting because a lot more things happened in this one. To bad the movie is going to ruin it...

My most disliked book is the secont book. I did like it but it just didn't seem as though much happend in this booklike the others.

I didn't like the fifth book very much. It seemed so tacky with the whole good against evil concept. The same concept was in all the books, but here, it was just annoying. The ending was also bad, it revealed a lot of the questions, but it just kept rambling on about little things we didn't care about.

Heaven forbid, I actually like the books. The movies are questionable at best. While the storyline may be a stretch for some of you folks out there, Rowling does a good job with it. Consider it a guilty pleasure.

Then there's always the fact it enrages Christian fundamentalists. How can you not love that?

Rap music enrages Christian fundamentalists, yet I seem to avoid it like the plague...

No wonder Rowling got so damn rich. Like half of her profits were earned because of those Christian extremists who kept buying and burning the books.

now, what's weird is this girl was on the news when starwars III came out and they were talking about the camping outside the theatre, and she said that she could see them doing that for Harry Potter but not Star Wars

What a freak

I like things like HP & SW, but the fanatics really freak me out sometimes.

I feel compelled to mention that in the video department of the store I work in, we absolutely can NOT play any Harry Potter movies... ever... for that exact reason.

Not that I ever complained of course. XD

http://www.exposingsatanism.org/harrypotter.htm



*Growls* Christian's really piss me off sometimes! Why can't they act normal for once and stay out of other things that they don't need to get involed in!

OMG I'm going to hell just because I read a innocent fantasy book!!! *Runs off to go burn Harry Potter books*

EDIT: OMG TEH SPOILERS. LOOK AWAY!










Assuming you want spoilers, I really liked the book.
The end was the best of any book, if only because of the sheer shock of Dumbledore dying. It was much more stark than Sirius' death, as Sirius was in a fight and you expect some people to die.
With Dumbledore, it was already established that no one but Draco was to kill him, and that Draco couldn't do it. And then Snape walked out, you expected him to help Dumbledore, and not suddenly Avada Kedavra him. Especially as Dumbledore was disarmed and already weak from the green potion.




END OF SPOILERS BIATCH

I went to the grocery store for the release of the book. I was not there to buy it, but to watch as crowds of people swarmed in to purchase it at 12:01 A.M. (I snuck out of the hpouse and walked a mile to the store at 11:00).

I should have been at the bookstore, though; a couple people got trampled to death there.

CHAZ RICH ITS GOOD TO MAKE IT MORE OBVIOUS
SORRY IF YOU READ IT

...I am going to be filthy rich when I invent a caps lock that has spring-loaded nails in it...

Well. Some people actually want to read the book unspoilt. Myself included. I enjoy the books and films (to an extent) but I'm not a crazy uberfan.

I wasn't being sarcastic, I just capsed it and had no grammar. :p

LOL!!!!

I'm only on chapter fiveof HBP right now. Mostly because I never have time to read without getting bothered by someone.

Why I'm I posting here and not reading?

and I shall be even richer when I find a way to stab people over the internet


http://gprime.net/video.php/pottercrash
hilarity (spoilers, I guess)

I read the first two books when I was younger; they were great for a child's imagination. The third movie was enjoyable, though the two before it didn't interest me much. Those people who believe it's evil should be killed by a firing squad. It amazes me that there are parents who actually prevent their children from becoming interested in reading. If your ten-year-old actually wants to read an 800+ page book, let them.

Those kinds of Christians believe that fighting is wrong and all of that, but they're gonna start a ****ing holy war for Bhudda's sake!

I wonder what would happen if J.K. Rowling died for some strange reason before she finishes the 7th book. I doubt that would happen but still what if it did....

Encourage children to read books of length and substance? Off with your head, boy.

So, funny story. On my lovely Xanga (I'm a weak man) I posted a very reasonable intro describing how I purchased the book. The next paragraph started off with "Good job, *I'm going to be the one to spoil the book dave!*, you managed to get yourself killed by the Death Eaters." Thus far, I've recieved several rather irritated responses. Boy do I love mistreating my friends.

And for the record, I haven't bought the book yet.

The books are solid, true, but I've never read or seen anything that warrants this sort or rabid-dog mania. Hopefully this will get kids into harder, more adult fantasy. If people read because of the books or people got turned onto reading them, good for them. I'm sure there were a lot of young people who didn't care for reading but now are hooked because of the Potter books.
I didn't like the movies that much, mainly it was all the little titchy things they flubbed, the changing of Dumbledore because of death, and those effing annoying accents. I'm sorry, but I can't take it.

My idea of a "book" is a Dan Brown novel, not a slow burning long winded kiddy's story series aimed at the 10-14 year old booknerd demographic and those Discworld/Pratchett/Philip Pullman reading 20+ year olds who refuse to grow up.

Ugh, Dan Brown.
Sure, his stories are good ideas (if you ignore the sheer formulaic way they're all the same), but he's not a very good writer.

I only enjoy the Harry Potter series because I think it's good literature. But I tend to read books like ancient history and books that are reflections of our world in a different one. Like Wicked.

He's a darn sight better than J K Rowling. And to be honest I like the formula he uses, because it follows the basic rules of a decent book, and some more advanced rules of the English language and plot writing.

I don't really think you're qualified to make critique of a world acclaimed author of several best sellers though to be honest. If you're saying that Dan Brown isn't a good writer in an attempt to pimp the Harry Potter books then that just gives you even less credibility as a critic. I'd rather hear negative criticism of Dan Brown from someone who knows what he is actually talking about rather than someone who has simply noticed that all his books follow a similar style.

And I don't think you're qualified to critique J K Rowling, a world acclaimed author. Yeah, I'm basing this on nothing, like you just did.

Bloody good job I'm not, then!

I do know what I'm talking about, there is a lot I don't like about the way Dan Brown writes. Unfortunately, the formulaic and similar plots in each of his novels is what I can currently remember best. If I re-read one within the next few days, I could elaborate more.

I'll grab the dueling gloves...

Dan Brown is a hack, but at least he's an entertaining one. Unlike Tom Clancy, whose hackery is mind****ingly horrendous.

When will people learn that I'm so much less likely to actually pay any attention to their opinion when they refuse or simply don't bother to back things up/elaborate?

Look, you think that Dan Brown is a bad writer then fine, but if you expect me to accept your opinion as valid you better be able to suggest one superior author, and be able to back up or elaborate on anything you say. If you just don't like his style then fine, I don't have a problem with that... but you need to understand here you're actually saying that his style is bad, not that you don't like it out of sheer preference. And you can't even back that up by elaborating. Why should I even give a flying screw? Dude don't pester me with your stupid opinion if you've not really got anything of any consequence to say about it.