Harry Potter

ImBlonde · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:14 am Post subject: Harry Potter

I absolutely love these books - they're such a great read! The films are good but do no justice to the books themselves. Anybody else a fan?

northern lass · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:21 am Post subject:

sorry to say but i just cannot get into these types of books/films. i find the books really hard work, too complex and i have to keep going over the paragraphs previously read! i tend to prefer true stories and biographies.
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ImBlonde · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:25 am Post subject:

Out of all you said, I would never have said they were complex books - I've read much harder. I guess if you're into a certain genre of book then you find it hard to like, because I get that problem in my English literature class. I absolutely can not stand any type of the war books we are reading, or George Orwell's '1984'.

northern lass · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:37 am Post subject:

english lit? george orwell? okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy............way over my head! left school 19yrs ago yes i'm and old bag at 36, i know! lets just say i was more interested in boys than school work! mind you it hasn't done me any harm ( NOT that i am condoning it )

i have 3 successful businesses and intend to retire in less than 10yrs time!
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Serenity · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:18 am Post subject:

wtg Jo, on your achievements!!!

I love the Potter films, but I too cannot get into the books! How odd, I read anything, but those are too much hard work. I'd really like to, but I just can't lol.
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Memph1s · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:26 am Post subject:

i love the books, dont know what im gonna do now theres gonna be no more, although i do feel shes left the last book at a point where if she needs some extra cash she could write about the kids
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ImBlonde · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:28 pm Post subject:

Haha George Orwell wrote that book in 1948, but it's a classic so they say! It bores me to the moon and back though.
The books are better than the films - I couldn't actually put mine down when I was reading it. I always said to myself 'oo just one more chapter then I must go to sleep'' and then I ended up reading about 4.
Of course she is going to leave the book open ended! I don't think she'd write about their kids, but maybe she would write about them having to go back to Hogwarts for something or other - but I think she did it moreso to leave it open for interpretation more than anything - let the reader decide what happens..