Half-Blood Prince

I got it today at 10am, finished reading in 10pm :smile: (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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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.

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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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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$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!

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

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

wwooops no i mean readin a page in 1:12

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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? :biggrin:

anyways, a bit more than a minute it takes me to read a page, that's
true :smile: I've always been a good reader (been reading since i was like
what..? 3?)

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

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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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Lol? I looked at hpana for the questions about HBP and could answer most of them :biggrin:

And i could read even faster if I was required to :wink:

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 :biggrin:
(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 :razz: )

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/Me considers buying English version since reading the Romanian one feels like having a brick pushed up my anus :sad: .

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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(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! :biggrin:

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

Hastings here in Jonesboro bud :smile:

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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(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 :biggrin: both 5th and 6th - HIS version :wink:

So... they are not the original ones :wink:

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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. :biggrin:

No, the one written by fan is NOT original 5th. This "version" of HBP was only a fanfiction.

The 6th book didn't actually quite look like Rowling's style at some places... :S

For instance, nobody expected for ********* to die, and even being
killed by *****!!! And nobody expected for ********* to actually
sustain injuries! Injuries what would make *** weak... so strong ***
has always been!

(No doubts you will all already know who were the people I was talking
about, but i just did not want to spoil anything for anyone who do know
not)

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No, the one written by fan is NOT original 5th.

I think you misunderstood. I said I have the 5th book bought from a
store. I doubt it's fake as it is the only HP book 5 in bookstores
here.

Oh, I thought you were talking about the copy of what I was talking about...

(but in essence divided?)

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Amazon is selling it for even cheaper, I just found out.

I have to add shipping cost though.

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This book is truly beginning in left field.. Usually it starts with Potter or his aunt/uncle.. So far, nada.

Tis an interesting read thus far however, so the alternate route is not harming it any. :biggrin:

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No. If you remember well, The Goblet of Fire was also not started with
Harry or his relatives. It started with story about the Riddle family.

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Some bastard told me the ending :sad: i'm only on page 120 :sad:

This book is truly beginning in left field.. Usually it starts with Potter or his aunt/uncle.. So far, nada.

Yea, this I also noticed, apart from the godblet of fire.

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

Seconded! I read at about 2 pages per minute for recreational reading. Slower for technical stuff like textbooks, and faster for easy reading. Some people I know can read a LOT faster then that. The trick is teaching yourself not to sound out the words in your mind, as that is the natural thing to do and it slows you down tremendously. I used to read at .5-1 pages per minute, and at the time I thought that it was the fastest speed that my mind could comprehend material. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that was not true. I think a lot of people underestimate their ability to read quickly, and that mental block stops them from reading faster.

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Some bastard told me the ending :sad: i'm only on page 120 :sad:

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I have to say the book was alot better than the film, but thats not to say the film wasn't good, I thought it was a great film.

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Well, I am an old school reader and I read slowly by any standard.

If you can do so faster, here's your cookie. I read 3.5 chapters yesterday and enjoyed them just as much as anyone.

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If the author of this thread doesn't mind to much, I would like to commandeer this thread for a discussion:

This is predominantly for the people who have not read book six yet but, if the discussed items travel speculatively into book 7 tis cool too.

Speculations on my part:

• Snape and Potter will come to terms and stop sniping each other.
• Hermione and Ron will pair up. Possibly marry.
• Dumbledore will likely sacrifice himself in a spell battle with Voldemort to save Harry from psychological damage. So far, Harry has never "killed"

Any other theories? Discuss-

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• Snape and Potter will come to terms and stop sniping each other.
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Everything except this sound fine by me. I just love Snape's sarcasm. :biggrin:

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Everything except this sound fine by me. I just love Snape's sarcasm. :biggrin:
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His sarcasm is hardly destructive now isn't it. However his taking cheap shots at Harry by employing his teachers position is hardly professional. My comment however stems from his grades. He has always done poorly in Snapes classes. In fact he has yet to complete a potion successfully to my knowledge, yet.. (/me will not ruin it by commenting on the report card at this time)

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Lol.. I can tell you two of your theories are unable to be fulfilled :biggrin:
Since for two very simple reasons. Read the book till the end and
you'll see what I mean :wink: (especially the chapter they are going after
a Horcrux).

Anyway, the second theory is quite possible. I think also that Ginny
and Harry are going to pair up (not much a spoiler, but they two are
snogging nearing the end :smile: ).

*Harry and Snape will have a final duel before his fight with You-know-who.

*Harry will finally learn to close his mind (Occlumens) so he can use
Sectumsempra on Snape. Afterall... it is a non-verbal spell.

*Draco will come over to right side and perhaps fights Snape. (just a
theory, this or the one before this). Afterall... Draco did not feel
this was right, he couldn't fulfill his mission so Snape had to do it
for him.

*Harry will pass his Apparition examination and becomes an Animagus.

*Tonks and Lupin are going to marry (aswell as Phlegm and Bill).

*Bill is going to heal completely and NOT become a werewolf.

*Harry will die WITH Voldemort. Neither of them will survive.

*Something awesome is going to happen when Harry and Voldemort fight
and die together, which kills all the Death Eaters. Perhaps something
like an Explosion, when Bad meets Good.

[SPOILER]*Dumbledore will return as a ghost or as a painting and advises Harry.[/SPOILER]

*Harry will find a way to communicate with Sirius.

*Harry tells Voldemort what the Prophecy actually was all about.

*Harry inherits Dumbledore's Pensieve.

*When fighting Voldemort, Harry finds the Dumbledore from his heart which helps him beat Voldemort.

I know, it contained quite a few spoilers from book 6, but you'll live
:smile: I've marked the worst one of them. I still do not accept that
character died! ** Couldn't have! No way! Nobody really expected that!

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Dude, I posted in the hopes of getting "theories"

You posted at least one spoiler.. ( more i suppose )

You were asked to not do so.. BLACK them out before anyone else reads this.

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Sorry, I thought [SPOILER] tags are going to black out automatically, like in hl2world :razz: my bad

hope it didn't spoil everything :razz:

Anyway, that was really the biggest spoiler, but I blacked it out now,
so, nonetheless nothing more should be spoilers. They are actually only
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I have my suspicions about Harry and Ginny but, this author has no sense when it comes to "birds and bees"

A school full of sexually mature people and no "Doctor" playing at all? Hell, Hermione spends 10 months a year at school and a month and a half at the burrow, that leaves no home life at all... What parents would allow that?

If its so easy to get out of the common rooms of each house, how much easier would it be to fraternize?

Some parts of this story are more fiction than magic ever was. :rolleyes:

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Myrk, the book is hardback, and that's cheap for a hard back book. Most of them are anywhere from $25 to $32 (US). Rip off when considering they haven't changed anything from the HB printings of four years ago when they were $18 or so. Not to mention 1st edition hard backs usually have ass face paper that isn't cut properly.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Yea, I'm a slow reader, about a page a minute.

Lol, I read 6 chapters in 40 minutes :biggrin: . Not even in my own language.

/Me is on chapter 8. No real surprises so far, but interesting tid-bits are hinted at. :smile:

[EDIT] /me is now acquiring a taboo audio version. Wish me luck.

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I thought Hermione and Ron were going out with each other already? I'm sure they are Orph.

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Myrk- said:
I thought Hermione and Ron were going out with each other already? I'm sure they are Orph.

Think again. I have read/listened to all five. Nothin official has been proclaimed by either. They do however get really annoyed when the other does particular things. You'd think they were already married.

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I have noticed an oddity and /me wonders if its an Americanized thing. All the Potter books I have bought have American distances and measures. There are no metrics anyplace in my books. The locations are still British enough I suppose, considering I wouldn't recognize a false location if my life depended on it but, why are the measurements all in SAE?

Anyone else notice this?

NOTE: SAE = Standard American Equivalent

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most of britain, orph, still use miles for long distances. theres a mixture of metric and SAE over here so rowling could just be using what she is used to.

oh and a while ago they used SAE but switched over to metric some time.

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BLACK TEXT,ASSWIPES.... BLACK!!!

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Agreed, as much as I think the books suck, not everyone wants spoilers. Black it out windows.