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How many of you have bought this book yet? I just got it and got to page 30, but couldn't carry on because I haven't read in so long it was hard, lol.

I already read all the spoilers too, but it's still the most compelling book I've read in like 2 years, and nothing has even happened yet.

does any1 die yet? and u can't expect anything to happen on page 30!!
and I'm getting mine mailed to me^^. I'm treated like royalty and i get 20% off for the book muhahaha I am royalty(jk)

What have you been reading???

Farking nerd stop reading pussy shit.

get an SI swimsuit or car shit grow some balls.

I don't think u read at all, shadowman, Harry Potter series believe it or not is the most popular series this decade so nahnahnahnahhhh...(I'm so immature when I want to be)

shut up just shut up shut up( 1 of my fav song^^)

I've been done for almost 24 hours now, I got it 9 hours before release because it was in my mailbox at the post office yesterday.

It was good. Some parts sucked.
I didnt like how a few things were done, it was like.. 7 books for that? But all in all, it was great and I cried.

I'm listenint to the audio book by Jim Dale atm lol :d.

haven't done that since the 5th grade

Yeah, I got mine 15 bucks off, I have no idea why -_-.
The person was just like "haha, discount time! Yayz!"



Pretty much nothing. I read Eldest because I read Eragon like 3 years ago, but it was such a bullshit book I never finished it.

No books seem good to me anymore for I have read the best book ever.*


Alexander: Child of a Dream
Ok retard.

I'm only 14, and I've been reading the series since I was 5. Might as well finish the series, huh?

omg 5! undiscovered baby genius alert!!

Wait, this is the last book of the series?

hmm....maybe i should start reading this series..... i havent even read the first book....i hate reading books....the only time i ever read a book is in skool when the teacher makes me

Excuses. Ask your dad to get you that SI swimsuit, dads are usually proud for that. At worst, i'm sure one of us would buy it and mail it to you

Lol, I would have started when I was 4, but I could only read Biff & Chip books then.

@ThatOneMan

If you want you can read them, I think these are all badass books:

Alexander Trilogy (Mentioned above in super secret text, lol)
Holes (seriously, that is a good book)
The Boy who lost his Face (excellent)
Dogs don't tell jokes (ehh, it's ok. Definately worth the read though)
Harry Potter 3 (Best in the series)
Naughts and Crosses (I believe that is the correct spelling, I read it so long ago, but if my memory serves correctly, it's good)

Hmm... I'll think of more later I guess.

Oh yeah, read Harry Potter I said if you want to you can, but it's best if you do I think. They're much much better than all of the movies, however the first movie was really good. Second wasn't bad either.



Pardon my ignorance, maybe I'm just not familliar with the term, but I don't think I know what an SI swimsuit is.

y go with SI Swinsuit??? if u want him to grow some balls go for playboy or penthouse or one of those types

Of course:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Pott ... ly_Hallows

Also, Harry Potter isn't 'compelling', its a load of one sided characters.

SI is a men's magazine, period.

Playboy is cosmo for men, but with 1 centrefold.

Penthouse is for dirty old men.


If you haven't picked up a playboy in the past couple years, I suggest you do. It's not the magazine it used to be, it's a lot like cosmo.

tell that to this dude:

It may not be the longest book in the series, but "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" definitely packs the most punch. The drama starts on the first page and continues practically throughout the entire story.

With Book 7, Rowling brings her phenomenally successful series about the young wizard to a close. And what a close it is.

There were some complaints that Book 6 — "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" — didn't have a lot of action until the end, that its role seemed to be filling in important bits of back story and setting the stage for the final installment.

There will be no such complaints here. The pace picks up from the start, with readers thrown into a world that's much darker than any of the previous Potter books. Harry and friends Ron and Hermione are on a quest some weeks after the death of Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, and it's time to put aside familiar faces and places and get on their way.

Lord Voldemort, Harry's nemesis, seems to be everywhere, his tentacles of power reaching into every corner. It's a dangerous world they must travel, and no place or happy occasion is safe. Their journey takes them to some unexpected locations and makes them interact with a whole host of characters, including some who were merely references in other books and some who are painfully familiar faces.

Old antagonists from previous books show up — one of whom enters into a positive relationship with Harry, and another who continues to wallow in all the traits that inspired Harry's hatred.

Harry, Ron and Hermione are on the search for horcruxes, vessels that Voldemort created to hold pieces of his soul, which make it impossible to kill him as long as they exist. The search has them moving over various parts of the United Kingdom as they try to fit all the pieces together. Many secrets are finally revealed, all leading up to the ultimate confrontation between Harry and the wizard who tried to kill him so long ago.

Rowling captured many hearts with her first book, and her last is guaranteed to keep them. She is amazingly gifted, demonstrated not only by the incredibly detailed world she has created, but by the depth of feeling and complexity she writes into her characters.

It's all here: humor, courage, redemption, sadness, terror, human frailty — sometimes all in the same character. There are sections that will make readers laugh out loud, as well as scenes of such sadness that tears are inevitable.

From a boy of 11, Harry has become a young man, determined to take on quite a burden. He suffers because of his commitment, and he's not the only one. Rowling said characters would die, and she meant it. Pain and death are constant companions, and sometimes who is taken is a shocker. The deaths aren't always drawn-out, violent scenes; sometimes, you discover that someone has died at the same time Harry does.

Characters you thought you knew surprise you. Some grow in unexpected (and not always pleasant) ways, while others have more complicated pasts than you could ever imagine. No one's life is simple — with a couple of Death Eater exceptions, many of the characters prove that you can't make assumptions about people's motivations.

Rowling rewards her faithful readers; there are numerous allusions to people, places, spells and objects that were mentioned in earlier books. It's a pleasure to see how she closes the loop she opened so many years ago with the story of a young boy who one day discovered he was a wizard.

And, of course, she answers many questions: Why did Snape kill Dumbledore? Is Snape Harry's enemy? Where are the horcruxes? What are the deathly hallows?

It's been a long, long road to get to this point (the first book was published in the United States almost a decade ago), and Rowling does herself proud. She completes her entertaining, compulsively readable series with a book that is both heartbreaking and hopeful, one that left this reader sad to say goodbye to Harry but thoroughly satisfied at how it all went.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" to "Deathly Hallows," Rowling has completed an astonishing cycle of books that can only be described as a true literary classic.

___

For children. You cannot compare a kids book to true literary classics that demand a much higher level of comprehension and reasoning skills.

Paradise Lost (which would be my all time favorite) > Harry Potter.

i never looked at a playboy or penthouse or any of those

i have had a SI swimsuit one tho

I really dislike u....and I will try paradise lost.....and Harry Potter is not my favorite book...The Troy Game Quartet is....u all should try it it's very good not advised for any1 under the age of 18 or hasn't lost their virginity yet the books include:
Hades' Daughter, God's Concubine, Darkwitch Rising and Druid's Sword

Have you read all the books? Maybe the first couple could be described as childish, but they pick up a lot more in book 5, 6, and 7. But I don't plan to get into a fight on this forum, it's pointless.

The first.. say.. 4 can be viewed as very childish, and if you're judging by only the first few books and the movies, you have no room to be talking at all.

I've been reading them for nine years, so I've grown up with them. I have to say, a lot of my theories were correct, and as much as I didn't like some of the couples at the end of the book.. well.. it was a fantastic ending to the series.

He was a blind poet. He dictated the entre book to his daughters. Every night he would be "inspired by holy spirit" and it would motivate him to compose. Although I think being inspired by the holy spirit is BS, you can feel his passion and angst in every line in the novel.



It's the origins of the Lucifer myth...

I bought the 2005 heckett version, a version with the original illustrations from the 1688 version - it's a popular version and is pictured on wikipedia and answers.com

It's worth investing in a good quality book if you're planning to read:

hmm seems like a good book...I like the Troy Game better

dom, you are Jesus resurrected. Mainly cuz im Jesus and you say what's on my mind.

Do me a favor.

Check the thread title.
Now check what you're currently quoting to stretch the page length-wise. See anything a little wrong?

I didnt read any of this due to possible spoilers, but my dad bought me a SI swimsuit when I was 14. So, lmao. I didnt even jack off to it, I just look through it.
lmao

Ahh, I see now that SI swimsuit is not an item of clothing (lol), rather a magazine.

MrFudge has some issues I think. He gets pissed off at anything he doesn't find manly, I think he's pretty damn insecure about his masculinity and sexuality.