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Internetics

Joined: 19 Jul 2007
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:55 pm Post subject: Midnight Launches |
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I'm being dragged out to the local Barnes and Nobles to get the damn Harry Potter book. Fuck.
This got me to thinking about the WoW and Halo and Madden launches. IS B&N ready for such damand? Should I have preordered the book weeks ago?? Will I get mugged and end up on the morning news as "another book violence victim?" If not, I may just skip the lines and mug someone for their copy.
Lawl, just kidding.
What else has midnight launches? Of them, would you be willing to mug and or mug violently to obtain the launched item in question? |
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108 fairy godmilf

Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: oakland, california
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:08 pm |
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man, i just read all the way through HP5 in like two days. it wasn't good or anything, though fuck if it wasn't 870 fuckin' pages.
i guess i'll read the sixth one, though only because, shockingly, it's something like 200 pages shorter than the fifth one, which is just, you know, such a surprise.
the seventh one looks to be long as FUCK, though, yeah!!
might as well put the last two away. might as well.
might as well.
kind of curious to see how the MOST POPULAR BOOK SERIES OF ALL TIME ends.
if nothing else, i was surprised a couple times in book five, when characters who i'd previously thought so dull and one-dimensional kind of did something . . . different.
still kind of irked about harry's non-magical aunt and uncle being complete and utter unchanging jerk-offs. the author clearly has some kind of . . . persecution complex. _________________
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Adilegian Rogue Scholar

Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Q*Bert Killscreen Nightmare
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:49 pm |
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| 108 wrote: |
| still kind of irked about harry's non-magical aunt and uncle being complete and utter unchanging jerk-offs. the author clearly has some kind of . . . persecution complex. |
I kinda chalked this up to the tendency of children's literature to demonize the adult world somehow.
I mean, Harry Potter has its share of good adults, and it even idealizes Harry's parents. When I was a kid, though, Roald Dahl always captivated me when he freed his children protagonists from the tyranny of evil aunts, uncles, or similar "benefactors." _________________
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Felix unofficial repository
Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: vancouver
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 4:43 am |
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| 108 as i'm sure you've been told enough times by now, the fifth book meanders like the dickens. worst one easily. |
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