I'm just following msn.com! And also, sue943, if it's 766 pages, I thought it was more than 1/3 longer than HP and the Goblet of Fire.

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Ace_Sodium, the book is 896 pages long. I doubt that somebody could read it in less than 12 hours. And plus, not many people would start reading it at 1 in the morning.

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Etar, ace lives in India. Do you understand the concept of time zones?

And are you accusing ace of lying?

First of all, I'm not accusing him of lying. Second of all, I had no idea he lives in India as his location is "dying." Third of all, depending on how old he is, I still don't think that he could read it in even two days. Not many people would sit on the couch for 10 hours reading.

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First of all, I'm not accusing him of lying.

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Third of all, depending on how old he is, I still don't think that he could read it in even two days.

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A bit of a contradiction there...

Wow - Thats a lot of accusations....

Its already one day old here...

and trust me, even you will read it in a jiffy if you have a sister pestering you like hell.


Anyways I suppose they could give me the Nobel Prize for reading it fast (???)... What else is left for me to achieve?


B/w: There are lots of people here (as in India) who have already finished reading it.


I suppose there is a difference between reading a HP and "A Brief History of Time"

I am surprised to see that you didn't know that Ace lives in India, in answer to your post yesterday (Fav.Series) in which you asked...

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Also the Indian Trilogies are nice to read...I think I've read three, but I cant remember the names of them. I think 2 are about wars and one is about a ghost that I remember fairly well...could someone who lives in India tell me what the names of those books are?

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It was Ace who responded with the answer, hence a clue that he just might live in India, something that has been mentioned over again in the fora.

In New Zealand there was a 'read in' of the book, it took 27 hours - yes it is Sunday already for them. It was read aloud so that takes so much longer than speed reading or even reading silently not at speed.

I haven't gotten to that post yet. I'll go and read it right now.

I do read other's replies and I in fact did try to read as many replies as I could today. And anyway, the Fav. Series post wasn't even mine! I'll rephrase that.

Etar, don't you think it's a little unfair, not to mention rude, when you change your post after someone has already replied to you?

If you post something objectionable you should simply apologize, rather than change your post so that no one who reads the thread later on can understand what's going on. On a number of occasions I've come across posts of yours that have been changed after they've already been replied to, and I find this most frustrating, as it makes the response to your original post seem senseless. Sue's last post makes very little sense now, and it made plenty of sense before you changed the post she was responding to.

We ask members not to delete posts especially once they have received replies, the same does go for altering them as snm has pointed out.

You will notice that I have tried to adopt a policy of copying and quoting etartherat's post precisely because of this trait of his - he did it to Linda1 in Quizzyland, it made a nonsense of her post as she hadn't quoted him prior to responding. When you see a quote of his in my posts which doesn't tally to any of his posts you will know he has altered it afterwards.

Etartherat, if someone has responded to one of your (numerous) posts please do NOT later edit the post to make a nonsense of the response.

According to the World Speed Reading Champion it would take her (Anne Jones) 1 hour 54 minutes to read the book.
www.timesonline.co.uk/books
I wish could find the reference but there was someone in the UK who was going to read the book(starting at midnight) and then answer questions on it in one of the book shops before 3 hours had elapsed after it went on sale. Why anyone would want to get answers to questions on a book they hadn't read is totally beyond me! And despite all the Hype - My daughter is complaining because she didn't get her copy from Amazon/The Post Office today despite all their claims of delivering them all on time.

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there was someone in the UK who was going to read the book(starting at midnight) and then answer questions on it in one of the book shops before 3 hours had elapsed after it went on sale. Why anyone would want to get answers to questions on a book they hadn't read is totally beyond me!

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If the quiz creating option was available right now, I am sure, by now at least, there would be a mad rush to post the first HP 5 quiz.

You know, if you think about it, isn't it Amazing that so many people all over the world are peacefully engrossed in doing the same thing? And, we're all of such different backgrounds and ages, too. It just really shows what a wonderful author Ms. Rowling is.

Daughter still waiting for Amazon to deliver! The contest to speed read the book was won by Jennifer Gosling who took 104 minutes (she was actually beaten in the speed reading by Anne Jones but answered more questions correctly on the books contents after finishing the book)
And the reason I couldn't find the reference was because it was in our local paper (the last place to look) - Anne Jones and 9 of her pupils from Burleigh College, Loughborough took up the challenge.

The postman delivered my daughter's copy at 8am Saturday, she has finished reading it despite having been camping Saturday night then out most of Sunday!

I bought the book on Saturday morning (even in Germany they had loads of copies...) and finished it by about midnight on Sunday. Apparently there are many people in this thread who haven't read the book yet, so I must restrain myself from *SPOILERS*, which is really hard for me, as I'm dying to share my thoughts and impressions on it. Just so much: I thought it was different from the others, but altogether quite brilliant. But the ending was "cruel" (never cried so hard over the death of a fictional character!) Don't laugh at me... My world isn't falling apart, but it was a shock that caught me unawares... felt like facing a Dementor... no, not that I thought I could never be happy again (then I'd probably need a damn good psychiatrist!), but I won't enjoy books 6 and 7 as I enjoyed the previous ones, because the death of... this certain character... leaves a pretty big hole! I'm seriously considering my own fanfiction of bringing this one back! My god, I'm grieving
I know that some of you might as well laugh at me now, which I can even understand, but I think I just have a little too much imagination when it comes to reading, and imagining the feelings of the others when this sudden death occurred knocked me out completely. I couldn't even eat on Monday morning...
Enough of that. The rest of the book was great, like seeing all the old characters again, and McGonagall has never been cooler! ("It unscrews the other way"... hilarious!).

I've had an idea this morning... how about a rumors-come-true-game? Everyone who posted rumors about book five in the "prediction" thread could check if some of his or her thoughts have proven to be right, and you can get, like, a point for each rumor that has come completely true and half a point for rumors which were partly true. Just a thought
Now I'll stop blabbering

I am dying to talk about the book. I hated it. Not just because a certain person dies. Also because it was badly written. Did anyone else think the beginning was patchily written? Also there is no plot. Nothing happens in the whole book. The other 4 Harry Potters had great surprises and fantastic climaxes. This one seemed to be written just for the sake of completing it. The book is really depressing. It was also disturbing. I dont know how some young kids will take it. I like Luna Lovegood. And Fred and George are as good as ever. Lupin should have had more part. Cho should just go drown herself.

All books have plots, except for non-fiction books. And also, please don't tell us anything about the book. I have never heard of Luna Lovegood, as I haven't even got the book yet, so don't reveal anything new.

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You know, if you think about it, isn't it Amazing that so many people all over the world are peacefully engrossed in doing the same thing? And, we're all of such different backgrounds and ages, too. It just really shows what a wonderful author Ms. Rowling is.

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And Binky said it was a bad book. It's probably a fact...none of the HP books can be bad. They may be bad to you, but to the HP fanatics/worshippers ^_^ (just kidding), none of them will hate it.

This is such a great book! I just finished reading it and I love it! But what happened to the quidditch? Please answer, I'm really curious!

Well I finished the New Potter yesterday. I think Ace was being rather generous with a five.

It has several points in its favour . It is very well written in places. The child characters are maturing as the series progresses and this is being handled very well. There are a few nice touches with witty magic.

The points against I fear are rather more telling. The book is vastly over long and flabby. I would guess that Rowling is now in the position where she can completely ignore the editors and it shows. Certain plot elements in the running of the school are showing up the gross inadequacy of Rowling’s conception of the governance of the magical community. You could spot the character who’s days were numbered after the first appearance. Significantly this book does not move the story on in any significant way indeed the McGuffin (sp.?) this time is a completely damp squib and inconsistent with V’s behaviour in past books. RW is turning into a bit of an irrelevance to no apparent purpose which seems a strange way to treat a major character.

The most telling point of all against the book is that it is beginning to show up a very creaky and failing plot line. How can V. be regarded as a growing threat? He has failed at every turn yet he is apparently increasing in power? He cannot match D. yet remains a threat, how? This is by far the weakest book in the series.