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Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 12:57 AM

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is anyone on this board as excited as i am?! im not kidding; ive been waiting for this for 3 years, and this friday at midnight, my dream will come true!!!

which book is yr favorite? mine is the goblet of fire. im reading it over again to get pumped for #5.

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Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 1:23 AM

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i, too, am very excited! ive read them a million times. the movies were kind of scary though (especially the second one! i had to turn it off bc i was home alone and got too scared).

anyways, my favorite is probably the Prisoner of Azkaban (sp?). i think goblet of fire is my least favorite. ive only read it once, so i should probably give it another shot.

three years is a long time! ive only been waiting one & a half. im glad i got into them later so i got to read all 4 straight through without waiting. i really hope she does some sort of follow up book of harry in 15 years after she finishes the seven.

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Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 1:25 AM

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yeah i'm pumped. goblet of fire was my favorite also. mainly for the ending and the dark territory we're heading into

Of course it's dark. It's a suicide note

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Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 7:58 AM

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I am excited, but not stoked. Waiting so long for this last installment has definitely put a damper on my Harry Potter devotion. I think the worst part is that I've watched both movies several times since I've read the four books, and I'm a bit sick of them (the movies). Reading the books was ten times better, but I'm too lazy to go back and read even the monstrosity that is book #4 in order to prepare for the fifth.

Nevertheless, I'm excited. Honeymoon reading! (Wait, are you supposed to read on your honeymoon?)

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Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 12:18 PM

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ain_potter_dc_9

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Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 7:15 PM

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Am I the only person that doesn't care in the most minute sense about this book? I was told that I MUST read the first book and I did, and while I enjoyed the experience enough, I couldn't justify using what little pleasure reading time school affords me reading these children's books. I look very forward to reading them to my kids, and creating kooky voices for all of the characters, and shielding them from the terrible, unimaginative movies that were made in the books' image, but I don't care to read them til then.

Speaking of reading, I can't put down Dave Eggers' You Shall Know Our Velocity.

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Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 7:26 PM

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Speaking of reading, I can't put down Dave Eggers' You Shall Know Our Velocity.

Ooh. Thanks for mentioning that. I'd forgotten that that's the book I want to read this summer. In fact, I'll probably wait on Harry Potter until it's in paperback like I like 'em, and buy this book instead. I loved A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

I will also read Lord of the Flies again soon because I am teaching it next year. I am really looking forward to that.

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Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 9:40 PM

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Harry Potter? I've seen the movies, and they're okay. The books? I too have been told that I've just got to read them, but I haven't yet. It's not that I have anything against them, but there are just about 1,000 books that I'd rather spend my time reading.

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Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 10:16 PM

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Harry Potter? I've seen the movies, and they're okay. The books? I too have been told that I've just got to read them, but I haven't yet.

devoted fans of harry potter hate people like you.

book 4 is intimidating, even on the 3rd read, but its still exciting. i finished it today and man am i excited.

rachel, i felt the same way when i read the first 4 books, i didn't have to wait for the 4th like everytone else did. but alas . . .

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Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2003 at 12:30 AM

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Harry Potter? I've seen the movies, and they're okay. The books? I too have been told that I've just got to read them, but I haven't yet. It's not that I have anything against them, but there are just about 1,000 books that I'd rather spend my time reading.

I'm the exact same way..

I have a friend who has read all of the books and he insists.. I didn't even know about the book until the movie came out and there was an uproar about it.

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Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2003 at 9:34 AM

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Speaking of reading, I can't put down Dave Eggers' You Shall Know Our Velocity.

Ooh. Thanks for mentioning that. I'd forgotten that that's the book I want to read this summer. In fact, I'll probably wait on Harry Potter until it's in paperback like I like 'em, and buy this book instead. I loved A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

I will also read Lord of the Flies again soon because I am teaching it next year. I am really looking forward to that.

I'd recommend getting the hardcover edition if there's an independent bookstore near you that carries it. Apparently the paperback edition is going to change alot of the things in the typesetting. Plus the hardcover edition begins on the cover, and that's fun.

Wow. Lord of the Flies... I loved that book once I got past chapter 4 or 5. I remember those first chapters took me weeks to cross, the last 2/3 of the book took me hours. I don't know if that'll help you teach it, but that was my experience with that book in the 9th grade.

Will

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Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2003 at 11:24 AM

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I'd recommend getting the hardcover edition if there's an independent bookstore near you that carries it. Apparently the paperback edition is going to change alot of the things in the typesetting. Plus the hardcover edition begins on the cover, and that's fun.

Wow. Lord of the Flies... I loved that book once I got past chapter 4 or 5. I remember those first chapters took me weeks to cross, the last 2/3 of the book took me hours. I don't know if that'll help you teach it, but that was my experience with that book in the 9th grade.

Will

Yeah, I will try to get the hardcover of You Shall Know Our Velocity because I love how it starts on the cover. Even so, I hate reading hardcover books. Paperbacks are so much easier to read.

I can't wait to teach Lord of the Flies . I loved reading it in 9th grade. I think that's the perfect age to read it because you are at that stage where you think you could really handle living on your own in the sort of situation those kids are in...and then you think, well maybe not.

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Posted Thursday, June 19, 2003 at 2:05 AM

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whoa i just read this

Author J.K. Rowling was so upset about killing off one of the main characters in her latest Harry Potter saga that she burst into tears. But the creator of the teenage wizard said it was vital to be strong because if you are writing children’s books, you need to be a ruthless killer.
     THE IDENTITY of the character who meets his or her end in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has been kept a closely guarded secret and Rowling hopes it will stay that way until the book is published on Saturday.
     In an interview with the BBC, she said about killing off her character: Well I had written the death, re-written it and that was it. It was definitive. And the person was definitely dead.
     And I walked into the kitchen crying and Neil [her husband] said to me, ‘What on earth is wrong?’ and I said ‘Well I’ve just killed the person.’

Of course it's dark. It's a suicide note

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Posted Thursday, June 19, 2003 at 2:12 AM

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a well known rumor amoungst avid HP fans. several theories apply, but none can be confirmed, until . . .

saturday...

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Posted Thursday, June 19, 2003 at 2:12 AM

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Author J.K. Rowling

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