i jiust read the dutch version after reading the original one
and i think i know who RAB or RAZ (dutch) is
its
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i jiust read the dutch version after reading the original one
and i think i know who RAB or RAZ (dutch) is
its
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You may be right TS. I read an interview with Rowlings conducted by the admins of two major HP fan sites and they too made the same suggestion regarding the identity of RAB. Rowlings, of course, was as evasive as ever. The only time she seems to step in and comment in a definitive way is when she hears some speculation that is too far off base.
is this about book 6? I seen movies 1, 2 and 3, and read books 3 and 5 but 6 I know nothing about (yet) ..~:mecry:
That is peanuts, now who killed Kennedy?
Maybe due to the fact that she (a) has no idea (b) plans on stretching out the series until hell freezes over.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gregoshi
Yours,
A Tolkien Fan
Now that I am sort of an adult, I like Harry Potter a whole lot more now then I ever liked Tolkien as a kid. You have to admit that Harry Potter is great, it is all so funny, smart and cute, irresistable stuff. Rowling does a better job of creating an alternate universe then Tolkien ever did if you ask me, because it is so similar to our own, with all the red tape and everyday's trouble of the small man, I love it ~:cheers:Quote:
Originally Posted by Prodigal
My ears started bleeding after reading the last book. It was that bad.
After reading some George Martin stuff it was like going from (using education as an example here) something you'd get top marks at degree for to something a 14 year old would do for middling marks. It was dire. A whole book waiting for something to happen. Then the super-bad-evil-dangerous people are beaten off by some children. Ooooooh terrifying!
It gets to me every time as well, it always keeps you second guessing huh ~;)Quote:
Originally Posted by BDC
i think 4 was the best...and my THEORY is about book 6...im 90% sure that im right, cuz i expec this after she let sirius die and after i red who the halfblood prince was
and his name is (RAB)
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Come on, three formulaic but ok in a mediocre sort of way childrens books, and then three "hooray I am now so rich I have escaped all editorial control" literary equivalents of constipation.
I mean, one of them is about CIVIL SERVANTS fer chrissake. How bleedin' magical is that? "Harry Potter and the Sarcastic Memorandum".
I especially hate Harry Potter because for the six months before the last one was published ("Harry Potter and the Invisible Plot" I think it was) I couldn't buy a newspaper in WH Smiths without the checkout staff asking if I wanted to pre-order Harry Potter. EVERY DAY.
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Didn't read any of them, didn't watch any of them... Won't. It's a subject of marketing, not literature or anything. :coffeenews:
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The 4th book was awesome! He falls in love for crying out loud! You can't say she isn't taking risks, our hero Harry is actually growing up, and Hermonia is developing titties in the last movie. You may not like it, but millions of kids all over the world love it, and I am really just a big kid so bring them on. I love the leightweight humour, the parralel universe thing with all the common problems like bureaucracy and growing up is obviously directed at adults, it is loaded with innuendo and irony. For the kids of today Rowling is what Roald Dahl was for me, creepy, witty and deliciously sadistic fun, he was also formulaic but who cares!Quote:
Originally Posted by English assassin
Go Harry!!!
Didn't read any of them, didn't watch any of them... Won't. It's a subject of marketing, not literature or anything.
Your loss, no it is not literature, but it is fun! You are really missing out here, go read one. Now. It will bring a smile on your face, thrust me.
I resisted Harry Potter through the first three books just because it was the "in" thing and Harry was everywhere you looked. Besides, it was a kids book, right? I started changing my thinking when I realized how many of my friends aged 20s-50s had read Harry and love the books, so I decided to give Harry a shot. Fragony described HP best as pure and simple "fun".
Prodigal, the next book is the last. The last chapter of the last book has been written for quite a while now, so there is an end. BTW, I'm a 46 year old Tolkien-is-#1 type person.
I read books 1-4 in a row as English practise, and realised they were way better than I had expected. But because no.5 wasn't out in a long time I kinda stopped following the series. Is book 5 and 6 any good, or has 6 come out yet? I'm kinda clueless about the series atm... I'll probably not read the last books until the series has been completed, I find it extremely annoying to have to wait a long time for the ending of a story when I've started it.
@Fragony: well, they're like apples and oranges and not exactly easy to compare. I personally like both for what they are. Harry Potter is an alternate universe comprehensible for those who live today, Tolkien's middle earth is according to himself an attempt to create a faked religious-mythological early Medieval world that he thought the British lacked. Harry Potter has little message in it and is in no way art but has a very nice and cosy atmosphere, while Tolkien's trilogy is a masterful artwork with deep messages, and above all a dark, epic atmosphere which I've not seen matched by any other artist in any field of art.
Otherwise known as Steven King Syndrome.Quote:
"hooray I am now so rich I have escaped all editorial control"
Dead on analysis EA.
Frank Herbert was still the best. The only reason the movie was bad was because it was directed by cinema's Syd Barrett.
Actually, that's not a fair assumption- Syd did good music.
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I may. Just because you recommend. ~;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
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How did you get the idea of Regulus (A) Black? Who is he anyway? I've read all 6 books but I don't remember him.Quote:
Regulus (A) Black
Thrust me? ~:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
You knave. You saucy, saucy knave!
Saturday I got HP5... and finished reading sunday. monday I started HP3, and finished a few mins ago. Now I'm onto 4...
I like LOTR as well, but not as much. ~;p
@Fragony
Yeah fair enough, but cute's a turn off for me.
@Gregoshi
She's really finished the series! Now that I didn't know. I've read a few of them, & I'll admit they're ok as an easy read but they don't really push my buttons.
PS - Shame on you Drisos!
Sums it up nicely. Wasting so many pages on such nonsense is by no means good writing; the first few books were acceptable, but the later ones are entirely too long for their own good, without actually having any content.Quote:
Originally Posted by English assassin
Try some Philip Pullman books, I'd say.
I read the first 5 boks, the first three were okay, very reminiscent of what Horowitz had done before and better in Grieselstate. The fourth was too long and didn't really have much plot. I read the fifth in one night, after my last exam , I don't think I remember anything about it ~:)
Interesting theory.
I read all 6 books, and I am waiting for the last one. I just read them for fun. As for serious literature, I turn to Tom Clancy or Agatha Christie or Clive Cussler.
1. Clive Cussler
2. Tom Clancy
3. Agatha Christie
HP is just for fun. And HP will die in the 7th novel.
Um. Tom Clancy serious literature? ~:rolleyes:
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Originally Posted by edyzmedieval
Isn't that rather like saying 'I turn to McDonalds for serious food'?
Don't be silly. Everyone knows only Burger King serves serious food.
whhahahahah beirut youre the man...SAUCY KNAVE whaahhahahahahaha
MIHO
look here for my answer
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GAH! I worked this out ages ago...
well you certainly not the only one Craterus.
Though I myself think it would be a little to easy...everyone would know this when the next book is due to come out.
So I'm putting my money on a never before seen / read about character ~;)
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ooooooooooops ~DQuote:
Originally Posted by Beirut
That is not nice at all Beirut, to give our Sapihi false hope.
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Sapihi?
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oh there's cocky craterus...maybe you worked that out earlier cuz you had the book earlier...DUHH ...btw i need to talk to you on msn...oh and my avatar rules yours ~:cheers:Quote:
Originally Posted by Craterus
Are you talking about the light Turkish horsemen in MTW?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
By the way, what does the name of the horsemen means in Turkish, Mouzafphaerre?
The Stranger, your theory sucks. ~;p Rowling probably worked that out a long time ago, and decided she won't use them just to keep the oh-so-knowing fans at bay.
Harry Potter IS fun. Com'on guys, have a little fun! The first three books were children's fun, the fourth being a little more adventurous, the fifth one...IMO sucks. It's too dark for a bright background, if you understand--so much trouble and so little joy to make Harry Potter as charming as it was. The sixth one is a little better, though the mystic seems to be falling off for me, for some reason.
Sapihi were Turkish knights, MTW got them a bit wrong. Quite a compliment, and I am not even thanked for making it!
No EU for you young man!
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:whip: Spell correctly wise guy! It's Sipâhi. :charge:
It's a Persian word, "man of 'sipah'", where sipah means...I couldn't find out for certain but probably horse.
Two distinct, unrelated type of cavalry were both named Sipâhî:
"Timarlû Sipâhi" were the light cavalry units, trained and commanded by people under whose posessions fiefs were given. That was a feudal system but very unlike that in Europe. These landlords were under absolute control of beuoracratic administration, explicitly responsible to the provincial governers (Beylerbeyi). They had to show up in person with a certain amount of cavalry under their posession, depending on the size and revenue of the land they were given. The fief would be seized back should the Sipâhî fail to fulfil his responsibilities and it wasn't automatically inherited by his descendants.
"Kapukulu Sipâhîsi" was the name given to the six heavy cavalry divisions within the janissary order. They were, like the rest of the janissaries, part of the imperial guard and theoretically under direct command and posession of the emperor, hence no feudal character at all.
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Hey my bad spelling started this in the first place. Once I get going I just can't stup :san_wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre
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Use the spell chequer then. ~D
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The Sipahi of port...think AoE3 mispelled it too...it says Spahi
I look forword to seeing harry potter die in the last movie. I hope he does, at any rate.
If it wasn't so damn hyped up, then i would think that it's OK, as a book for younger readers. But as it is, i feel like vomiting every time some one brings it up....:san_angry:
whahahahha the books arent great and i think it has had its best time...4 was the top and it went down after...the movies sucked, 3 was the worst 4 the best
for me it isnt a hype...i already before it became widely know...i just want to see the end and thats it
I hope Harry dies at the end.
Voldemort is my hero. :san_grin:
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The Stranger, your theory sucks. ~;p Rowling probably worked that out a long time ago, and decided she won't use them just to keep the oh-so-knowing fans at bay.
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no it doesnt sucks, you dont know how she writes...before she wrote even the first book she had almost all the characters figured out...so Regulus had no other part in the books so she had no reason to name him...but she did...cuz he will come back in 7...thats smart...you migtht not like the book but you have to admit that its waterproof...almost or no loose ends...:san_cool:
Actually, it's not, I dropped it in the bath... :san_laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Stranger
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mister Craterus says hell stop with the org and decides to spam the whole forum
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whhahahahha you just cant stop
:dancinglock: I hate Harry Potter.