Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix - the Be Here Now of books?

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£1m worth of copies stolen, and so the madness begins.

It's just occurred to me that with the exception of Oasis' Be Here Now, and possibly the Phantom Menace, I can't remember such hype and collective weight of expectation surrounding any release for years. Obviously both of those were massive disappointments even to die-hard fans... so you never know.

Will anyone admit to be looking forward to it? Will anyone be buying it on the first day? Do you think it'll be any cop?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Also - unprecendented levels of secrecy surrounding at least one of the above releases replicated and probably superceded here.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I might get around to reading it one day, prob after I have gotten around to reading the others. So little time, so little time.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

They're quite quick reads despite their HUMUNGOUS SIZE.

This is a great thread title - thumbs up Matt!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I've not got round to reading any of the Harry Potter books, so it will be a while before I read this one.

I've convinved myself that these books are basically good things, but there is too much true stuff in the world for me to waste my time reading fiction.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh to answer the qns, I'm not going to be buying it on the first day (or ever), but I will read it at some point and I'd guess it'll be the worst yet, because I have a feeling this is the one where she's going to try and move the Big Plot along and I know from long comics experience how disappointing such instalments tend to be.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Otoh, the book would come in handy as a weapon to hurl at enemies. I bet it will be heavier than a brick!

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I've ordered it because it was cheap, it's a big book, and hopefully it will come just in time for me to take it away on holiday, where I want a big uncomplicated book that I can get engrossed in.

Chris and I were talking about the harry potter phenomenon the other day, and I think the books appeal because, as Tom says, they're a quick read, you can skim them, without missing anything, and things do actualy happen in them. It's like a halfway house between grown up literature and comics (minus pictures, obv), it's easy reading. And sometimes I just want to be a lazy reader.

I do think the hype's a bit wierd though, I don't think it will live up to it, but it'll do the job I need it for.

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I blame Morrissey.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

neither Be Here Now nor The Phantom Menace were big disappointments to me initially.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The other common factor between all three is that the main creative force behind them was/is too important financially to the publishers/distributors to be burdened with an editor.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

oooh the phantom menace sucked, oddly tho had they removed jarjar (or is that jahjah) then it would have been ok. Back to the question in hand i will borrow the book from my mate as he has ordered it, and like many of his books, cd's, records etc i may keep it if i like it.

― james (james), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

oooh the phantom menace sucked, oddly tho had they removed jarjar (or is that jahjah) then it would have been ok

oh that was you on I Love 1999 was it? nice one ;)

The Phantom Menace = good kids film despite bogus intention to teach kids about intergalactic politics and often lame script (tho no worse than episodes 4-6 in reality)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The teasers for the Paxman interview with Rowling are hilarious - JP asking about the rumoured violent demise of a major character with such gravity that you'd imagine he was interviewing someone about Chilean death squads.

Another connection between these three pinnacles of pre-hype popcult: I've never heard/seen/read them* nor am I ever likely to. Perhaps I should feel slightly sad about this. (OK, I probably heard a 1997 Oasis single or two/saw an EP1 trailer).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

You have missed nothing.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, not *completely* nothing...

It's like a halfway house between grown up literature and comics

!!! Fighting words around here, Vicky! Martin Skidmore to thread!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Prediction re: death of a major character... Hagrid's going DOWN.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh God, what I meant was, that the action in HP is usually quiet fast and furious, just like comics, but there isn't any 'boring' introspection that you can get in challenging fiction. (it being written for children)

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

'challenging' and 'written for children' aren't mutually exclusive - see the William Mayne thread.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The second book has quite a bit of introspection (which is why it made a shit film).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not saying they are, I'm saying you don't get the introspection that you find in challenging fiction in HP

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Cross post, I think I should give up now!

I can't remember introspection in the second book, but that's probably because I read them so fast I just take in the plot.

I've only seen the first film, and I thought it was crap.

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I've read the first 3 HP books, and I read them very fast too; they seemed to be pure Enid Blyton in style.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't remember much introspection in the second one... and I thought the second film was better than the first (and it necessarily made a lot more cuts).

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I've read the first 3 HP books, and I read them very fast too; they seemed to be pure Enid Blyton in style.

That's exactly what they are! Huge wizard-feasts at the end of each book = gigantic picnics with lashings and lashings of ginger beer hurrah!

Except the fourth one, which has death and dismemberment and fascistic overtones.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

The second one is full (well maybe not full) of "am I destined to turn evil? the sorting hat did nearly put me in Slytherin!" potential-vs-fulfillment introspection.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

so it is. I read them so fast I usually have to re-read them before I read the next one. Maybe i should do it again, as it's been so long since the last one. Can't really be bothered though, anyone know where I can find a brief synopsis?!

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess I didn't respond to that as introspection, really. I'm the most introspective creature on the planet, so it has to be pretty heavy for me to even notice.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"oh no! something's stonifying everything! I hear a voice! Am I mad/bad/dangerous to know? Did Hagrid do a bad thing? Oh wait, it's just a ghost. fuck you ghost! and fuck your snake too! oh look, everyone was just temporarily stonified due to a completely implausible series of coincidences. Handy."

more book reviews by Sour Skittles later.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, but doesn't everyone ask themselves stuff like that on a daily basis?

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sort of looking forward to this book, because my wife adores this wretched series, and I've been reading it to her, and that's fun. I won't get the book the day it omes out, though, 'cause I've been in the States, and don't want to deal with the crappy Americanization/editing.

Hagrid's going to be a ghost. Ooo, ooo.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, this is the Be Here Now of books:

http://www.erowid.org/library/books/images/be_here_now.gif

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't wait. I love the HP books. Sadly I won't be buying it the day it comes out b/c I don't get paid till next week and don't have the dough. However, when I *do* buy it I'm getting two copies. One for me and one for one of my students from last year. He loves them too and his family is very poor. They just moved into my neighborhood recently so I'm going to take him the book for some summer reading. yay.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the HP series - and I've the fifth one on order at Amazon - in theory it will be delivered on Saturday morning - if not I'll go and buy it that day and give away the copy that's being shipped. I think that they're wonderful and inventive and witty and all - not brilliant or great literature, but perfect escapism reads - though I will admit that the fourth book, Goblet of Fire did get awfully dark and contorted - which wasn't a bad thing.

Anyway - I am doubting (sadly) that this fifth will live up to all of the hype - but there's a little part of me that's holding-out hope that my suspicions are wrong and that it will be marvelous.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I won't buy it but will read it, and on current form I'll pretty much enjoy it for the duration (though I am seriously doubtful that JK Rowling will deal anywhere near satisfactorily the teenage/young adult angst that the ages of the main characters necessitate) and I'll have completely forgotten it, emotionally and narratively, five minutes later.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I have it on order from Amazon, but have decided I can't risk my copy not turning up in the post on Saturday morning, so I will be purchasing a copy at one minute past midnight from whichever store is open then, and I'm so excited I just can't wait.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, just like w/ 'Be Here Now', the basement at the Book and Comic Exchange in NHG will soon be full to bursting w/ unwanted 2nd hand copies of the feckin' thing.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"But it's a first edition"

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 07:19 (twenty-two years ago)

(though I am seriously doubtful that JK Rowling will deal anywhere near satisfactorily the teenage/young adult angst that the ages of the main characters necessitate)

Surely they'll be far too busy defending the world from evil wizards to worry about spots and wanking?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

surrounded as i am with bookshop workers (ie wife and bezzy mate), they are beyond sick of the whole effing thing. i think meg's taken about 800 pre-orders at her shop alone despite the fact that they're charging about 4 squid more than amazon/most supermarkets. also the embargo is almost entirely unworkable, in that "officially" they're not even allowed to open the boxes til one minute past midnight...

CJ, borders in oxford will be staying open until midnight for it, if you're that desparate, but please be nice to the staff :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

ha, i just saw this thread again, and read it as Harry Potter and the Order of the Pinefox...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I think that deserves a thread its own.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Pinefox...

Now that book might live up to the hype!

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

What would be his mystic powers?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the books but I read them back to back and by the time I was halfway through the third one, I wanted to strangle Rowling and her (non existent?) editor because I couldn't bear to hear the kids say the following anymore: "well, that's because xxxxx, isn't it?" "blah blah blah, aren't they?"

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

People do speak like that. I mentally kick myself whenever I do, but I still do it.

I would have it so that every time HP was mentioned ANYWHERE, the mentioner had to recommend another, less feted children's book . And the listener had to read it.

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

mark s and mark c = total accord shockah :)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I know people really do speak that way, but that's no excuse for writing 400 pages of dialoge that sounds like that. I don't think Rowling is pulling a finnegan's wake where she's trying to replicate the sounds and timber of human speech, she's just being lazy.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

''I won't buy it but will read it''

so who will mark C be bug for a copy?

''I'm getting two copies. One for me and one for one of my students from last year. He loves them too and his family is very poor. They just moved into my neighborhood recently so I'm going to take him the book for some summer reading. yay.''

that's really kewl DDG.

''Another connection between these three pinnacles of pre-hype popcult: I've never heard/seen/read them* nor am I ever likely to. Perhaps I should feel slightly sad about this.''

nor am I and I'm v happy abt this.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I will probably end up reading someone else's copy a few months down the road. Although I (sort of) balk at this, because I don't want to have to reread the others: I know it's a children's book, so there'll be very complete recaps of everything you actually need to know ("What could this mean? Harry mused, recalling the major plot points of several previous texts"), but I seem to remember being impressed that she'd tied things together a bit more interestingly than that. Not like it would take more than a night each to recap the previous ones, but still.

Lemony Snicket books, on the other hand, take about five minutes. (See what I did there, Marks?)

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

So, um, anyone venturing any guesses about which of the main characters she's bumping off in this book? (Well, er, having he-who-must-not-be-named bump off, actually.)

And, in tribute to Mark C - I think that children should read The Trumpet of the Swan. Though Lemony Snickett's stuff is awfully addicting.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 19 June 2003 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Lemony Snicket rules as well. Search: Any book labeled "juvenile"

― That Girl (thatgirl), Thursday, 19 June 2003 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Prediction - whoever gets bumped off is coming back as a ghost, Obi-Wan style. Actually, I'd be amazed if this didn't happen.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 19 June 2003 07:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Dumbledore (sic?) is going. Last book was full of stuff about how old and frail he was looking. He will die and pop back as a ghost. Perfect Obi-Wan material.

(See also phoneix - D's pet bird ....)

I am so right.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 19 June 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Also

Hype is silly. Read Why The Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 19 June 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

When did Tom become Tico Tico and was this officially announced?

― David Gunnip (David Gunnip), Thursday, 19 June 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

He was resurrected by the magical powers of the pinefox.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 19 June 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Tico tico = Gandalf the White.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 19 June 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

For a long time I wandered in the dark places of the board.

(Actual answer - start of May. I didnt announce it but I admitted it as soon as anyone asked.)

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 19 June 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I only found out this morning on the Discovery/Deserter's Songs thread revival! I'll have to go back and re-read those Tico posts now!

― David Gunnip (David Gunnip), Thursday, 19 June 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Why?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 19 June 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes honestly don't bother!

Actually there's a good one on the Dark is Rising thread.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 19 June 2003 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Tico Tico = Tom's Richard Bachman

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 19 June 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Er, although I do think it's a brilliant thing to do. Not the idea, which is a bit hackneyed, but to see that it's still worth doing.

(also I am big-upping it because I didn't spot it)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 19 June 2003 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Finnegans: insert usual Myles line

2. I don't understand your comments about the dialogue (this mainly to Mark C)

3. I too want to know what my magic powers are

4. Mike: you could easily have been subjected to Be Here Now by me over the years - possibly you should consider it a lucky escape. (I actually listened to it upon getting back several sheets to the wind on Tues night!)

― the pinefox, Thursday, 19 June 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Killing off Dumbledore also means the film doesn't have to go on for two long with someone doing the sticky on beard Richard Harris schtick.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 19 June 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

What, is the ghost going to shave or something?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 19 June 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it'll be as good as the first one.....

― chris (chris), Thursday, 19 June 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

'i hope i think i know' and ' my big mouth' and 'all around the world'
still kick ass. sorry know nothing about harry p.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 19 June 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

What, is the ghost going to shave or something?

Maybe in the afterlife he realizes how awful beards look.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 19 June 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Hooray the real Nicole is back!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 19 June 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Robert Jordan should beat up JK Rowling.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 19 June 2003 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Can I be the not real Nicole?
It's seems that Dumbledore would be the obvious choice for the above mentioned inevitable film and lack of Richard Harris.
However, the latest rumor I heard is that Drako Malfoy will be the one to go, which frankly is fine by me, because the bleach headed kid in the movie was just freaky! My only hope there was a love/hate relationship with Drako and Hermione that, were HP a soap opera, would have played so well!
Mark S ~ The magical world of Narnia by CS Lewis

― NicoleToo, Thursday, 19 June 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

*sigh* - I think that the arguments for it being Dumbledore are valid - and there has been some ominous little 'hints' in the past books. But I can see him as a ghost - like that one professor who fell asleep and never noticed that he died, etc.

I don't see how she could off Draco Malfoy, as ucky as he is (in the books and the movies) - I think that the relationship between he and Harry is supposed to be mirroring that between Harry's father and Snape - and if Draco is offed now, then that whole struture would be lost.

But, then again, I've been known to be totaly off base before. (Only 28 or so hours more to go!)

Oh - has anyone gone and looked at the excerpts from that newspaper? I'm avoiding it, in disgust, but admit that I am tempted, too.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark - Ishi, Last of His Tribe

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll be avoiding this thread come tomorrow until i can afford the book.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

It'd be pretty cool if Harry died.

― Cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 19 June 2003 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

But would he still be featured, as a ghost, Cozen?

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 20 June 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

So has anyone read it all yet?

From a BBC comments section on the book, this gem of doggerel:

Potter, Potter everywhere!
It's driving me to drink.
Potter, Potter everywhere!
And naught to make kids think.
Tim Morris, UK

Oh, my sides.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 June 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i wonder if people are just speeding ahead to find out how the owl cops it.

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 21 June 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Ugh - FedEx is still not here. This is sooooo wrong! If there's no book in my hand by noon I am making a run into B&N to get the darn thing. My mother and Glenn say I'm being neurotic. I keep telling them that I'm just jonesing for my fix and they look at me weird and leave the room. *sigh*

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Saturday, 21 June 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha !!
gotta love bbc web site ninny shitheads
who can't make even the shittest poem
in the world rhyme/scan.

and i bet it took him an hour.

― piscesboy, Saturday, 21 June 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I've only got as far as Chapter 6 so far. It's good.

― C J (C J), Saturday, 21 June 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I would have it so that every time HP was mentioned ANYWHERE, the mentioner had to recommend another, less feted children's book . And the listener had to read it.

In the Seventies, there were a few children's libraries that required the borrower to check out one (or even two) other books for evey Judy Blume book checked out.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Saturday, 21 June 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Was the Phantom Menace's script worse than episodes 4-6?
Heck yeah. Remember that it was in TPM that you first
heard Lucas ejaculating about virgin births and midi-
chlorian blood counts. Only in TPM did you see an
evil warlord hissing "Take no prisoners...kill them all,"
followed immediately with a scene mass prisoner takage!

Remember people, the George Lucas who wrote
Star Wars was young, hungry, and smart, and who first
drafted the screenplay for the Empire Strikes Back?
Leigh Brackett. Leigh FUCKING Brackett. Sure, she
may have written some duds (like Rio Lobo) but her
pulp fiction is cynically gripping, and her
Raymond Chandler films (The Big Sleep, The Long
Goodbye) were fucking beautiful.

― squirl plise, Saturday, 21 June 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

squirl police i am watching return of the jedi right now, it is not quite as good as the big sleep really

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 21 June 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i have finished and am strenuously avoiding spoilers.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Sunday, 22 June 2003 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

My only hope there was a love/hate relationship with Drako and Hermione that, were HP a soap opera, would have played so well!

I've seen HP slash that pairs Harry and Draco in love/hate sex.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 22 June 2003 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I think i may be an idiot for reading it so fast.. now i will have to wait another 3 years... oh well... i guess if i start "empire" now i will finish just in time for HP6.
the person who dies has not been mentioned. the book is generally good. rowling does deal with the adolescence thing a bit in that harry is quite whiny at times, and he has girl troubles. no wanking though.
the book is good, though, like the others, is weighted heavily towards the end, which is more and more of a problem the longer the books get. This will be a long movie, especially since many details are pertinent.
all in all it is a bit transitional...

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Sunday, 22 June 2003 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I just typed a bunch of stuff on the ephemerality of the HP phenom and the internet ate it bcz I was not logged in. This pisses me off EVEN MORE - to summarize I AM DISTRUBED BY THE SPEED WITH WHICH THIS LITERARY THINGEE HAS BEEN DEVOURED and I imagine a future in which things like this are filmized and ditched as quickly as poprecords move across the danceclubs today - SCARY or possibly I will embrace it along with the rest of technology and be seen seven years from now screaming from the bar patio "NOTHING IS TIMELESS YOU PUSSIES" with a shimmering bottle of lager in my left hand.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 22 June 2003 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm spearheading Millar's anti-BookRockism movement: "Chapters are better than books!"

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 22 June 2003 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Bookist! What's wrong with paragraphs, eh?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 22 June 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

i'd like to see more Dadaism in Rowling's work

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 22 June 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The FedEx guy said that he about 75 books to deliver yesterday morning - I told him that with the next release he needed to come to my house first.

It was excellent, by the way - lived-up to and in places actually exceeded my expectations. Now I am jonesing for the Two Towers DVD release.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 23 June 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Order of the Phoenix had the absolute great Umbridge plot. It got me worked up in ways that the other books in the series hadn't (though they're still wonderful, increasingly so as they go along.)

p.s. the trailer for the fourth movie is out.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, is there another book coming out next month, then? *dodges brickbats, retires in haste*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Harry Potter movies >>> LOTR movies, but both are pretty suck.

I hope the new book is good (I still liked Order of the Phoenix even if it didn't quite work.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

New book isn't until July, Ned.

Seriously, the professor Umbridge sub-plot (absolutely evil teacher/headmistress with shades of fascism/torture) made me recall high school in some pretty negative ways. i think it's things like that which make the books so attractive to kids--they can very readily identify with the protagonists' struggle against the Professor's (often violent) control.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

http://zeikfried.no-ip.com/IMAGES/HELLO2.JPG

― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

The wizard battle at the end of this movie completely owned.

― Adam Bruneau, Friday, 4 September 2009 02:34 (sixteen years ago)

The sound editing during said battle was pheonomenal.

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 4 September 2009 05:39 (sixteen years ago)

phenomenal

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 4 September 2009 05:39 (sixteen years ago)

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