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Posted by Madedog on Sat Jul 16th at 7:27pm 2005

I got it today at 10am, finished reading in 10pm <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"> (counting in a trip to McDonald's)

And I say it was a BLAST! A real good book. I didn't like that a character died... he was perhaps most people's favourite...

Anyway, what do you think about the book? I loved it and I strongly advise everyone to read it...



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Posted by rival on Sat Jul 16th at 7:30pm 2005

im going to get it one of these days i just dont know when...

looking forward to it though all of those books are so easy to read.





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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jul 16th at 7:32pm 2005

I bought the book this morning for $17.99.

I am not calling you an outright fibber, but.. Reading a book that large in 12 hours is nigh on impossible.

However, since you have nothing to gain, or lose by saying so..

I am still at the beginning. The Prime Minister is a bit upset with Fudge ATM.

and

This belongs in "Recently Read"





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Posted by Windows 98 on Sat Jul 16th at 7:34pm 2005

I bought it at midnight at a local book store. there were around 1000 peopel there to buy it ^_^. anyways. PM me who dies and anything important before i read it. cause im cool like that and want to know.



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Posted by rival on Sat Jul 16th at 7:34pm 2005

$17.99? i thought it would have been more expensive. how many pages is it?
plus remeber orph in those 12 hours he did nothing else except a trip to mcdonalds!





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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jul 16th at 7:37pm 2005

652 pages. and 12 hours is a bit tight IMO.

*shrugs*





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Posted by Windows 98 on Sat Jul 16th at 7:42pm 2005

i used a calculator. and a 652 page book in 12 hours is reading in 1:12 seconds or so. thats pretty damn fast, constantly. then you had a trip to mcdonalds. i dont think you read the thing.



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Posted by rival on Sat Jul 16th at 7:46pm 2005

1:12 - you mean 1 page in 12 seconds?



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Posted by Windows 98 on Sat Jul 16th at 8:04pm 2005

wwooops no i mean readin a page in 1:12



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Posted by Madedog on Sat Jul 16th at 8:15pm 2005

lol... i bought the book that had the "Advanced Potion Making" book on the cover... it had only 607 pages total, so...

It was so: I got the book somewhat in 10 am, got home and started reading 10:30. Then I went to McDonals in about 2, got back home like 2:35 (it is only what... 10 minutes away?) - the line was long :-P lots of people on such a good day. Then came back and eat and read the book altogether (i can't eat without something aside, like a book or a movie). I then took a break and played 10 minutes or so a piano, just for cooling down.
And well... a bit before 10pm i finished reading...
so... 12 hours would be from 10 to 10, but - let us count some bits down here.
so - macdonalds + piano cut down 1 hour. And since i arrived back home 10:30, it will be another half an hour less.
So - 10 1/2 hours total... not bad, huh? <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">

anyways, a bit more than a minute it takes me to read a page, that's true <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"> I've always been a good reader (been reading since i was like what..? 3?)



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Posted by Windows 98 on Sat Jul 16th at 8:20pm 2005

(what...ever?) lol

anyway, still thats like 110 wpm. thats pretty damn fast. Ive been reading since i was 3 also, and i cant finish any book in 10 hours. ^_^





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Posted by azelito on Sat Jul 16th at 8:24pm 2005

Everyone reads at different speeds. 600 pages in 10 or 12 hours is not impossible.



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jul 16th at 8:29pm 2005

? quoting azelito
Everyone reads at different speeds. 600 pages in 10 or 12 hours is not impossible.

The human mind reads as it talks out loud. Reading a 600 page book in that short a span is not impossible, but absorbing it all.. is.

You can argue all you want, but the mind cannot absorb words at that rate with any measure of retention.I have been reading nearly 40 years. I am not fast by any definition. Its recreation for me, not a chore.

Anywho's, I have friends who can read 600 pages a day so yeah, I have seen it done. However, specific details are not what they tell you when you ask "well, how'd you like it?"





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Posted by Madedog on Sat Jul 16th at 8:35pm 2005

Lol? I looked at hpana for the questions about HBP and could answer most of them <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">

And i could read even faster if I was required to <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">

By the way... it should be even more impossible since english is not my native language and i had really re-read several places, but that did not decrease my reading speed!

I am telling you again, I am sufficient to read a book at such rate and remember most of it as if you were reading 4 pages of A4 in 1 hour <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif"> (re-reading it all the times)

I daresay I have a some sort of a gift not everyone have... not a privilege, a _gift_, to read fast and memorize most of it. Go ahead, ask something, I'll try to answer (and I'll give an Unbreakable Vow i won't look in the book :P)



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Posted by Andrei on Sat Jul 16th at 9:09pm 2005

/Me considers buying English version since reading the Romanian one feels like having a brick pushed up my anus <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif"> .




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Posted by satchmo on Sat Jul 16th at 9:14pm 2005

Hey, I am a big Potter fan, so please don't post any spoiler on this thread (or anywhere at the Pit). If you do, please use the spoiler font.

I plan to read it when I get a chance. It's a bit difficult when I am working fourteen hours a day on the weekend.

Where did you buy the book from, Orph? $18 is a good deal.




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Posted by Andrei on Sat Jul 16th at 9:31pm 2005

(just got a taboo version - - there's something weird going on here: i've read all of the HP books but there's just something i'm missing here. At the beginning of book 6 it mentions mrs.Figg as a TEACHER at Hogwarts. Is this a mistake since she appears uncapable of doing magic in book 5?)

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(here's another one - what the hell is Sirius Black doing ALIVE in book 6 ? My *taboo* version is f**ked up)

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Oh, I got the fake one. Just got the *proper* one. Cool, 2 HP6s! smiley




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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jul 16th at 9:34pm 2005

? quoting satchmo

Where did you buy the book from, Orph? $18 is a good deal.

Hastings here in Jonesboro bud <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

I for one would rather not hear the ending but, it would not ruin my read if it slipped out.. However, since many have voiced concerns, I would advise people to not comment about "Key" characters at least..





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Posted by Madedog on Sat Jul 16th at 9:41pm 2005

? quote:
(just got a taboo version - - there's something weird going on here: i've read all of the HP books but there's just something i'm missing here. At the beginning of book 6 it mentions mrs.Figg as a TEACHER at Hogwarts. Is this a mistake since she appears uncapable of doing magic in book 5?)

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(here's another one - what the hell is Sirius Black doing ALIVE in book 6 ? My *taboo* version is f**ked up)


You are reading the version of an idiot who wrote two books smiley both 5th and 6th - HIS version smiley
So... they are not the original ones smiley



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Posted by Andrei on Sat Jul 16th at 9:42pm 2005

No, 5 must be original since it was bought in a store etc etc etc. I just got the REAL 6th book. Lol, so funny.





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