This book has already been spoiled for me sadly. At least certain parts of it have been, thanks to some asshole friends of mine. I'm still picking it up and midnight and reading it though, I like these books a lot and I want to read how everything happens myself.
How is that possible? Has it already been released in England or something?Originally Posted by TruthofMistake
When the book was being printed someone working in the factory might have stolen a book or made copies of every page.
spoilers are floating around the internet if you look hard enough. also a bunch of newspapers have already released book reviews (ie, nyt), much to j.k. rowling's chagrin
Gah, I guess no matter how much they beefed up their security, someone managed to photo some pages. Bastards.
LaZie made this...a long time ago.
"It was a very depressing time in my life, since I had no money I was unable to screw the rules" -Kaiba
God, people suck so very much. Why would they purposely ruin the enjoyment of so many people? Because they can?
I have been so concerned with shielding myself from spoilers after the book is released, it didn't occur to me to be careful about before it was. Luckily I've managed so far to avoid all the spoilers, so goodbye internet. I will return once the book is finished.
I think I know precisely what I mean
when I say it's a schpadoinkle day
^^ Yea my plan is pretty much the same. I already learned how many pages there are in the book and I'm already in a fit.
Haha really? If you went to any BN in the last few months, those stores had cardboard set ups advertising with the line that went something like, "you've read 15,386 pages. Only 764 more to go" (i'm making the numbers up, can't remember off the top of my head). How is knowing the length of the book a spoiler?^^ Yea my plan is pretty much the same. I already learned how many pages there are in the book and I'm already in a fit.
Stupid Mexican television just passed the title of several of the last chapters... DAMN IT!! I had avoided spoilers till now! Damn News normally focus on murders, soccer and stupid actors... so why the fuck did they suddenly decided to spoil us!? Damn them!
It was the same bi*** that decided to pass screens of Shrek 3rd's movie secrets... bleh!
I just couldn't wait anymore. I dl'ed the leaked version.
Reading on.
We've lost darkmetal. Who else shall last? Oh the humanity!
It's not that hard avoiding the spoilers...unless of course you're country's television broadcasts them (sorry Mexico). But here, anytime they mention the spoilers, they mention the source and then don't go into detail because they knew it would cause uproar.
Basically stay away from google, go to sites you visit regularly that you know won't have spoilers. For the past few days I've only been visiting Gotwoot, Penny Arcade, VGCats, MLB.com and Gamefaqs.
It's funny, days after the 6th book was released, there was a mob going around the internet searching for any information about the next book, even if it was "Ron is allergic to dungbombs". Now if someone says "Harry and the gang had a round of drinks at the three broomsticks" people are going "HOLY CRAP KILL THE TRAITOR!!!111!!ONE!"
LaZie made this...a long time ago.
"It was a very depressing time in my life, since I had no money I was unable to screw the rules" -Kaiba
^^ Its because this is the last book. People want to find out how the story finishes by themselves.
I finally got the book in my hands. Im going to spend this whole weekend reading it nonstop
i just got the book lucky im in hong kong visiting my dad so there were english version of the book left
ty psj for this sig
FINISHED!
I must say, I loved this book from start to finish.
edit: spoilers ahead
After my initial excitement/sorrow of finishing the last installment of a cultural phenomenon, I have this to say about the book:
The whole Deathly Hallows concept was a little awkward from their introduction to the end, maybe over the top. It took me a re-read or two to fully understand the whole ordeal of the Elder Stick and its ownership passage towards the end of the book.
I really wanted someone really important to die, more specifically Ron, Hermione, or Hagrid. Although I must say the deaths in this book made the war much more real. Snape's murder was awesome until he turned out to be Mr. Goody Two Shoes.
Dumbledore's back story was interesting to say the least and showed that even he could be power hungry and selfish at times.
Oh, who knew that Harry had such a pwnage cloak?
Last edited by darkmetal505; Sat, 07-21-2007 at 05:42 PM.
SPOILERS:
the only thing about this book that i didn't like was the concept of the deathly hallows that popped out of nowhere and just convoluted the story unnecessarily, i think. the rest of the book was amazing, even the parts i saw coming from a mile away, like snape secretly being good and in love with lily for all this time.
Wow, done. Got it yesterday at 2 pm, had an hour break at 4, went out with a friend at 7, came back at 9 and finished at 12, so 7 hours?
I never turned on my computer yesterday morning as I was actually in fear that someone had managed somehow to infiltrate all of the computers in the world with a virus and that, on the day the book was scheduled to come out, would reveal the ending to me the minute the computer booted up.
and now, my thoughts, so SPOILERS AHEAD DON'T READ
A good ending to the series, I think. I thought, though, that the seemingly wanton killing-off of many characters was unnecessary (Hedwig? Dobby??)
However I absolutely loved the backstory on Dumbledore! While the introduction of the Deathly Hallows seemed a little out of place this late in the game, as Harry was already in search for Horcruxes, they fit marvelously into Albus' story. Personally I was able to relate to him better, knowing even he wasn't the pure good kind of guy we thought he was. I can see how some might see that as a bit of a let-down though.
Anyone else see the epilogue as a little too cliche? Perhaps I'm not cut out for happy endings but the likelyhood of those couples getting married, even after what happened to them seemed low.
Anyhow a good end to a good series, let's see if (or should I say how) they get away with anything less than an R rating for the movie
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The ending did seem cliche. I wish Rowling would have focused on some of the other characters like the Dursleys.
After seeing the 5th movie, I'm under impression that the 7th is going to be dreadful. For one, it's non stop action. Also, almost every detail becomes important in explaining either previous references and/or future events.
One major mistake they made in the 5th movie: not showing the locket when they were cleaning the house! In this book, it was confirmed that R.A.B was indeed Regulus Black, which most people were thinking. Lots of speculation was going on about how the locket that they found while cleaning was indeed the original one. At the end of the 6 movie, they're going to show the fake horocrux and in the 7th movie they are going to reveal that it was Regulus who had planned to destroy it. Without any reference from the 5th movie, how is Hermione supposed to remember the locket and subsequently talk to Kreacher about it?
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