... DA thing and the Weasley twins inventions. And I love how they portrayed the extendable ears on the big screen!
42. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling - My least favourite of the books, mainly, I think because of the death at the end...
... with Lizzy Bennett in Pride & Prejudice.
I'm at the Burrow in England, and soon to be at Hogwarts in Scotland with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
I'm also at a Canadian museum with Vicky Nelson in Blood Lines.
And, I'm in Spain (I think?) with Sharpe's Rifles.
Closer ...
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling.
Pages: 607
Total Pages Read: 2009
Average Per Book: 670
ReRead.
Hardcover
I finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix last night and will be starting Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince tonight.
I also got my copy of The Canterbury Tales back so I might browse through a story as well. Or, since it's in the original spelling, I might wait until later.
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
I'm 2/3 into the story.
42. The Half Blood Prince. Questions it raised in my mind: Where did Harry learn to swim?
How could he perform a curse when he didn't know what it would do? (SectumSempra)
What will Percy's role be in Book # 7?
Was it really Snape who killed Dumbledore, or possibly another ...
... Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Almost Forever by Linda Howard
Whispers by Lisa Jackson
A Game of Chance by Linda Howard
Lady of the West by ...
I've just started Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I'm really looking forward to it; this one, along with The Goblet of Fire, is my favourite of the HP books.
... by J.R.R. Tolkien
-Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
-Chronicles of Pern: First Fall by Anne McCaffrey
-Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
-The Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert
Currently sitting with a bookmark somewhere in them, waiting for ...
... by Wendy and Richard Pini - keeper
124. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling - keeper
125. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling - keeper
126. Shopaholic and Baby by Sophie Kinsella - library
127. laytonwoman3rd in 50 Book Challenge : I'm in... (Jul 7, 2007, 1:23pm)
... by solid objects. Then there's the matter of the need to aim so carefully... In any case, I'll be moving right into Half Blood Prince as soon as I do a few necessary errands.
#74 (Still reading my stuff, eh sprout?) I think you're quite right about Firefox. I haven't updated it ...
... reading.
While I take a break from Thomas Mann I've been reading The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Harry Potter and the half-blood Prince, and am almost finished Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson.
... in wait now and am not sure which I will pick up.
I also want to read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince before the new book comes out, but I still have plenty of time for that.
... of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick ***1/2
Currently working on:
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling on audio, reread
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder with my son
... the end of the week I'll be picking up Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to be followed later in the month by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, in preparation of the final book.
... have to!
I believe this thread is supposed to be about the new Harry Potter book. I can hardly wait! I will reread Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in the next week or so.
They sure are. As Potterheads, let's consider them the mistiness of Half-Blood Prince (remember the ex-minister to minister to new minister chapter?). As Harry defeats Voldemort in Deathly Hallows, the WalMarts should magically disappear! ;)
33. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling - This was my favorite book in the series. It didn't drag, and I liked the balance between Harry story and Voldemort story. I knew what happened at the end, so I wasn't surprised... I was more surprised by the death in the previous book. ...
I've just started re-reading The Half-Blooded Prince so I'm glad that I'm not the only one who felt the need for a re-read of some HP before The Deathly Hallows appears!
1. The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
2. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
4. The Little House by Philippa Gregory
Now reading;
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JKR
All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
Nine Princes in Amber byRoger Zelazny
The Sport of Queens; the autobiography of Dick Francis
... first movie that I read books 1-4. Ever since, I've read the books and seen the movies as soon as they came out. Prior to Half-Blood's release, I discovered the audiobooks narrated by Jim Dale. They're a wonderful way to re-read the series.
May 2007
41. The Holy Thief by Ellis Peters
42. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
43. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
44. The Black Stranger and Other American Tales by Robert E. Howard
45. Our Lady of Darkness by Peter Tremayne
... June to June 2008.
1. The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
2. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Now reading
4. The Little House by Philippa Gregory
I've started with my first book of the challenge: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling I'm re-reading this book to refresh my memory for the new book.
... prisoner of Azkaban J. K. Rowling (re-read)
38. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling (re-read)
39. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J. K. Rowling (re-read)
40. March Geraldine Brooks 3.5/5
41. The Curious Incident of the Dog in night-time Mark Haddon
Another important part of book 6, I feel, is that JKR has said that she feels Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows are one and the same book, just different parts to it.
#198 missmaddie:
Thanks for replying to that. :) About Aberforth, I feel I either agree that he'll have an important ...
Truthfully, I've only read Half-Blood Prince twice, the last time being nearly a year-and-a-half ago. He did brag a lot about past students and their gifts to him, if you're thinking of that kind of flattery. :)
... scratch me to shreds, ...
Supposing that I ever could grab a few books, though highly unlikely, they would be Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Something Rotten, Widdershins, "Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country," The Hero With a Thousand Faces, and The Dictionary ...
... -- I got as far as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and then I needed a break, so I have Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince left to read this month.
... try to help them out somehow once he discovered it was about Harry.
#1 xorscape:
Don't forget about Harry saving Ron in Half-Blood Prince. :) . . . I imagine this may have been discussed somewhere in part, but we've had such large discussions, that it's good to talk about it here. Now, all ...
The Barefoot Princess by Dodd
The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Wilde
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by Rowling
Pale Kings and Princes by Parker
Prince Caspian by Lewis
Just got Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince from Ebay.
...
Raggedy Ann Stories by Johnny Gruelle ***
Currently working on:
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling on audio, reread
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder with my son
31 Colt, George Howe The Enigma of Suicide 575 pages
32 Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) 672 pages
33 Sulzberger, C. L How I Committed Suicide: A Reverie 216 pages
So I seem to have deserted my list, or maybe just wandered off the path for a bit.
This weekend, I knocked off Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - it's always fun to stay up all night reading...
49. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
50. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Really looking forward to July 21st now that I've refreshed my memory as to the Harry Potter series. The sixth one isn't my favorite, but it isn't my least favorite either, so I ...
... of Azkaban
7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
8. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5)
9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I'm starting Thunderstruck now.
**some of the touchstones aren't working this morning**
I'm about to finish Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Bring on book 7!!
I'm probably going to start some non-fiction after this. Thunderstruck by Erik Larson or maybe The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan. I'm feeling the need for something of substance before I dive back into ...
... writing style. I really loved Far from the Madding Crowd and I'm glad I can now get into his work. I'm also reading Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince because it's borrowed and I remember so little of what happened when I read it the first time.
...
2. True Evil by Greg Iles
3. Wizard at Large by Terry Brooks
4. Don't Look Back by Amanda Quick
5. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
6. At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances by Alexander McCall Smith
7. Split Second by David Baldacci ...
... level, I really enjoyed the ending of almost all of the Harry Potter books, most especially The Prisoner of Azkaban and The Halfblood Prince. I think JK Rowling does a really good job coming up with surprise endings that play fair but that you really don't see coming.
Currently finishing Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and I just started A Tale of Two Cities. No clue what's coming up after that.
Since we're discussing this on a group that covers fantasy . . . . Maybe he'll be "at liberty" to sign on for the cast of Half Blood Prince. :-)) I can't picture anyone else playing the PM.
... #27 Bookmarque, #33 physik:
Gasp!
# 34 blackcat:
Okay, I can't gasp at you 'cause I already knew how you felt about Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. :)
#40 sandragon:
Oh, that's too bad. Hope you get to finish The Lord of the Rings someday. I liked those books very much. :) ...
... anything would be better than Obsession.
Also, just started Dead Lines by Greg Bear on audio after finishing Harry Potter and the Half blood Prince this morning.
I've heard people saying they really liked Half Blood Prince and I've just hated the book, it seemed so different than her other ones.
... Wives, and I plan on reading A Tale of Two Cities next. I also have The Regulators, Prey (Michael Crichton), and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince to get through as well! *phew*
... - Birdsong
Susan Hill - The Pure in Heart
Nick Hornby - The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
To Finish
Robertson Davies - The Manticore
Orham Pamuk - My Name is Red
To Read
I've decided to read a lot more South African ...
... it was great, and I'm in the mood for a quick read since I've been slogging through so much history lately.
Listening to Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince in the car.
... - Greg Iles
2. True Evil - Greg Iles
3. Wizard at Large - Terry Brooks
4. Don't Look Back - Amanda Quick
5. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - JK Rowling
6. At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances - Alexander MCall Smith
7. Split Second - David Baldacci
8. The Chris ...
When Half-Blood Prince came out, a friend and I went to a crop (scrapbooking) first, then left around 11, picked up shakes at Sonic and arrived at Borders by 11:30. The store had a bunch of stuff going on. Some people dressed up, some not. Lots of people just milling around.
We were handed ...
I did the same process as above for the two most popular books in Zeitgeist. I do not own either of these books.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Zeitgeist had 13,442, the Social Info page had 14,096 and after clicking on the 'show all members' link it lists 10,293
Harry Potter and ...
...
My, it's windy out! I just opened my mail box to see two books from BookMooch. So exciting! And guess what I just got? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince...in the UK edition! I have to go let the senders know, back in a bit!
... written.
Middle age favorites Tomorrow when the War began series Redwall series and I'll admit it ,when I first read Harry Potter and the Philospher's stone I was blown away! Love stuff by Gary Paulsen and Kate Cann and Victor Kelleher and Ken Catran.
Now Twilight is excellent. On ...
... "I'm-too-old-for-this-phase". Then I read the first one and loved it, and found myself at Waterstone's at midnight for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
My favorite is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
... by Wildon A. Tucker
“Drowning Towers” by George Turner
“Cat’s Cradle” by Kurt Vonnegut
“Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang: A Novel” by Kate Wilhelm
“The Rift” by Walter J. Williams
"A gift upon the shore" by M. K. Wren
“When Worlds Col ...
1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by Rowling
2. Cry of the Icemark by Hill
3. The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Pratchett
4. The Golem's Eye by Stroud
5. The Neverending Story by Ende
Fantasy anyone?
Fiction:
This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson
The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Non-Fiction:
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
London in the Nineteenth Century by Jerry White
(Why oh why have Touchstones put up Harry ...
... the cloak:
( I haven't figured out how to do that fancy italicising some of you do when you quote something)
"....He James Potter couldn't leave the house, but nobody who hadn't been informed by the Secret Keeper could see him as long as he remained inside. So he didn't need the cloak..... ...
... (last night) listening to The Order of the Phoenix read by Jim Dale. It's a long one. I hope I can finish both this and The Half Blood Prince in time for the 7th book to come out.
Right now I'm reading a biography of Beatrix Potter -- Beatrix Potter: A life in nature by Linda Lear. She's a fascinating person; despite a stifling Victorian famly life she managed to make her own living writing and painting her wonderful "little books." She was also an accomplished naturalist ...
... In the American version of Order of the Phoenix for example, Tonks says "Wotcher" which is pure British slang.
But in Half-Blood Prince there is one major difference not accounted for. In the American version Dumbledore says on top of the tower "He cannot kill you if you are already dead" ...
#6 - Yup, actually adding up all the numbers (from the ratings graph) I get 27% for Half Blood Prince. And 34% for The Da Vinci Code.
... user data.... those on talk are probably more likely to be raters, just as they are more often taggers.
Edit
Looking at Half blood prince - the book any random member is most likely to own - all members who own and estimating from the amount of page occupied by raters of any description and ...
... Writers’ Workshop (2005) – FW and because I’ve been curious about Clarion. The only Wilhelm I’d read before is Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang which I found episodic, draggy, and not too relevant. This one, however, is one of the best books on writing I have read and gave me much to ...
... 'adult' readers ;-)
Now, to answer the questions:
I actually have two favourite books: The prisoner of Azkaban and The half blood prince
I NEVER felt sorry for Voldemort, he is pure evil
I never thought of being any of the characters, but if I had to choose, I would say Hermione. ...
... Mississippi Delta
Delusions of Grandma
Surrender the Pink
Randy Bachman: Takin' Care of Business
Alias Grace
When the Morning Stars Sang Together
Myths and Legends of the Vikings
New York in the Sixities
Great Religions of the World.
London
A Terrible Liar
Dieting ...
14. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (reread)
15. Forever in Blue by Ann Brashares
... a good reason for not reading it, but I delayed. Yesterday, when the blizzard hit and I became snowbound I finally started Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I am still slowly plugging away at Crusaders in the Courts by Jack Greenburg and occasionally savoring a chapter from Ex Libr ...
>3 LOL That reminded me of when the The Half-Blood Prince came out we had an office party that I had to leave early from so I could go home and get ready for the midnight book party. They all thought I was crazy. They disguised it well with smiles and nods, but I knew they all thought I was ...
... very hard to put down. And consequently I'll be starting Mockingbird in the next day or two.
I'm listening to Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince sandragon - seems like we're on a audible Harry Potter kick together :-) I'm looking forward to listening to the other Artemis Fowl ...
I'm about to finish Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I've been reading the series along with my son. Not great writing, to be sure, but entertaining enough. We've read the series straight through over the last couple months; we're a little behind the rest of the world, I guess. Kind of ...
1- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (11735)
100. - Flags of Our Fathers (334)
10% - Where the Wild Things Are (1087)
50% - Taking Charge of Your Fertility (121)
90% - A Soldier's Christmas (6)
Unshared - 9
Of course, I have yet to catalog the boxes of books still living in ...
... ling
Harry's second year at wizarding school is filled with mayhem and danger. This was the first time I read CoS since Half-Blood Prince and I now see what JKR said about the two being so interconnected. In fact, that may be the contributing factor to what some people see as CoS being the "w ...
... one I can not handle. Even it is a trilogy, I want to be able to pick up any of the books in the series and understand it. Harry Potter, I can do that with. Piers Anthony's Xanth series, I can do that. Mercedes Lackey I can for the most part. I think it was Kevin J Anderson's ...
... of real and fictional characters interesting because it is difficult to tell what elements fit where.
If not that then, Blood by Janice Galloway is a rather interesting collection of short stories for when you want a slice of something quickly that will still leave a lingering impression. ...
... to lots of legends and fantasy books, again including LotR.
And I am intensely curious as to whether or not any of you Harry Potter fans out there are familiar with Harry and the Potters (or any of their spinoffs: Draco and the Malfoys, the Hungarian Horntails, I don't know the others). I'd ...
... Anatomy Coloring Book
Blood Rites
Bloodsucking Fiends
Bloody Chamber
Dancing Skeletons
A Farewell to Arms
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching
In Cold Blood
Jelly Belly
Private Parts
Stranger with my Face
There was ...
Half-Blood Prince made me joyful all the way through, except for the chaaaaapters on who was going to the dance with whom. That stuff was great in the small doses in which it appears in the earlier books. I'm partial to the whole diary thing in Chamber of Secrets, but Goblet of Fire is just ...
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowland
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse? by Suzy Becker
THE SWEETHEART SEASON by Karen Joy Fowler
...
Blood Canticle by Anne Rice
Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice
A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
The Spine of the World by R.A. Salvatore
Smart Food: Culinary Delights for Optimal Grey Cell Performance ...
... J. Sobol
50 Tricks with A Thumb Tip by Milbourne Christopher
Teaching Little Fingers by John Thompson
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
I also have a book by Apuleius, but I'm not sure if that' ...
... of Harry Potter! 1-4 are kids books, but 5-the rest are YA. It makes sense when you think of it, but everyone asks me for Half Blood Prince and I don't have it! ;)
...
2. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. This was one I have been wanting to read since I saw them movie ages ago.
3. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling. I started reading the Harry book's about two years ago, finally had to see what all the hype was about. I have to ...
Finished The Neverending Story a couple of days ago and I am now flying through Harry Potter and the Half blood Prince. Next on my TBR pile is Cry of the Icemark. I am starting a Fantasy Book Club at the school I teach and this is the first book we are going to read.
... Snape to be "Dumbledore's Man Through and Through"
WARNING: contains spoilers for all HP books up to and including The Half-Blood Prince
http://www.mugglenet.com/editorials/editorials/edit-dmcallister01.shtml
the author puts forth a good argument in Snape's favour. I'm SERIOUSLY ...
... can provide an inspiration for many.
I agree there are some books I wouldn't want young children to read as if they were Harry Potter. But then they are very unlikely to, its hard enough to get them to read in the first place, without foisting tombs of heavy prose at them.
Donaldson's ...
Over the last week I've added about 200+ books so things have changed a bit from my previous post:
Top: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince still. 10,464 users
#100 You Slay Me 169 users
50% The Unicorn Creed 50 users
10% Greenwitch 544 users
10 unshared books with the ...
... any of the 10+? others.
To be honest very few authors can hold a series together past the third book. Even Rowlings Harry Potter is getting less well writen and struggling for plots by the third book, though I do like book 4.
Most Popular Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince 10,285 users
10% Castle Roogna 381 users
50% Shattered Mirror 83 Users
100th most popular Thirsty 48 users
Three Unshared:
Star Trek The Wrath of Kahn
Anywhere and Always
The Dragon's Heart
Perhaps, but in entering my titles, I haven't reached the Harry Potter portion of my collection yet, so with such a small sample size, it could be that the current numbers are slightly misleading.
#1: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (how original!)
#100: Tess of the d'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy (1762 users)
10% (134 of 1345 books): Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (1385 users)
50% (#674): Indecision: A Novel by Benjamin Kunkel (174 users) ...
What a fun idea! My stats are as follows:
#1- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
#100- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
50%- Tapestry of Lions by Jennifer Roberson
10%- Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (143 of 1427)
Last- An ...
#1: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
#100: Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice (533 members)
10%: Baudolino by Umberto Eco (980 members)
Last & Unshared: Freedom and Neurobiology by John Searle (I'm shocked no one else has it, though it just came out.)
Most popular: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
#100: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
#50: Atonement by Ian McEwan
#10: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre
I have 492 unshared books, but I know they are so many because a lot of them are in Italian.
oops, I forgot to post my books...
#1 Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince 10238
#100 Burnt Offerings 682
10% The Hostile Hospital 722
... Holes was satisfactory.
My least favorite adaptations would have to be The Princess Bride, Ella Enchanted, and the Harry Potter Movies, which deviated far too much from the original works, especially Ella Enchanted. That movie was insufferable, with the amount of major plot points ...
#1 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
#100 On Writing by Stephen King
10% (195 of 1958) Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
#1 Harry Potter 7 the Half Blood Prince
#100 Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
10% (155 of 1552) - Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
199 unshared.
#1 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling, 10,221 copies
#100 - Arrow's Flight by Mercedes Lackey, 474 copies
10% - White Oleander by Janet Fitch (#39/392), 1254 copies
Plus 24 unshared.
Most popular: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling (10219 copies)
100th: The Mouse On The Mile (The Green Mile), Stephen King (207 copies)
10% (47/465): Pawn of Prophecy, David Eddings (776 copies)
This is assuming of course that everything is properly ...
#1 : Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (everyone on earth)
#100 : Heretics of Dune (937)
10% (I used #120) : History of the Peloponnesian War (767)
Dead last : The Art of Group Discipline (just me)
what about the 50% book (would that be the median)?
Mine would be Secrets ...
Most popular: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (surprise!)
100th: Les Trois Mousquetaires (the one shown in the touchstone seems to need some combining. But once they're combined the French title disappears into the English one and is no longer even on the list of others, which is ...
Most Popular - Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
100th - The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde (691 owners)
10% (260th) - Light by M. John Harrison (224 owners)
Least Popular - ICFP '06 : proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Progr ...
Most Popular: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
10%: (54 of 549) Around the World in Eighty Days
100: White Fang
Last: R. E. Lee: a Biography, Volume IV
The touchstone for my R. E. Lee biography is coming up with Anton Pavlovich Chekhov as the author, but it was written by D ...
... how many books you have, which one is at the 10% mark? (i.e. I have 2260 books, so I used number 226.)
Most Popular:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
(10,202 owners - I think this is also the most popular book overall in LT. I own the entire series.)
100th Most P ...
I'm 15. Favorite books? Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Swordspoint, Harry Potter (of course), American Gods, Twilight,The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime,among other things...I'm an aspiring author, too. Nice to meet y'all.
... to throughout.
I also have to say - Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials triliogy is a masterpiece. I really enjoy Harry Potter, but Pullman's prose is truly beautiful and thus a joy to read on many levels.
... post, aswell!
Fictional guys are better than real ones, I always say. :)
Edward Cullen;; Twilight
Sirius Black;; Harry Potter
Zane;; Pretties
Nat Eaton;; The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Rex;; Peaches
Dexter;; This Lullaby
Howl;; Howl's Moving Castle
Legolas;; Lord of the R ...
... making him attractive. And I like Sirius more than Lupin as a character, but I think I'd have more of a crush on Lupin in Harry Potter (obviously). And who wouldn't have a crush on Westley in Princess Bride? Though I really liked Inigo too. And I had a crush on Nathaniel from Bartimaeus T ...
I've read the Harry Potter books so many times that I've long since lost count how many times I've read each book.
I also read Inkheart and Inkspell often.Great Expectations whispers to be reread frequently. And Beast by Peter Benchley, Lord of the Rings, The Looking Glass Wars ...
... I often reread the ones prior to the new one so I can have everything fresh in my mind. Some series that come to mind are Harry Potter and the Outlander series. I know there are others, but I can't think of them right now!
... be a long list! ;D Fictional guys are better than real ones, I always say.
Edward Cullen;; Twilight
Sirius Black;; Harry Potter
Zane;; Pretties
Nat Eaton;; The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Rex;; Peaches
Dexter;; This Lullaby
Howl;; Howl's Moving Castle
Legolas;; Lord of the R ...
... we talk about literary wise. It's always media, especially Japanese media like games and anime. Of course, there is always Harry Potter. We talk about that. And Charles Vess, though he's not an auther. I suppose we also have Susanna Clarke in common, but you don't care for her much. What ...
... book I read at the beginning of each year but I do have some books that I am planning to re-read in the upcoming month.
Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince I figure I need to re-read this before the next book comes out. I've only read it once and that was the night it came out. I didn't ...
... everything up to Memnoch the Devil); The Sandman, (six or seven times); The Hobbit, (six times, soon to be seven); Harry Potter, (five times for everything up to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire); Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar novels, (four times for most of the early ones); and T ...
... complex on different levels, plus LotR is just a darn good story.
So, now you know why I have those books!
As for Harry Potter, I may not have read them if I didn't have kids myself, both nonreader boys who hungrily devoured the books cover-to-cover in no time. I thoroughly enjoy Rowli ...
The Harry Potter series and The Lord of the Rings are the complete books I've re-read the most. The HP stuff in particular I've re-read a few times. Since they're so quick to read, I can easily fit in the previous volume when each new one comes out or re-read the book before each film comes out. ...
I read a lot of young adult books. I love Harry Potter, especially the third, fourth and fifth books. I also like the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson books starting with Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging. Another book that I really enjoyed was Secrets by F.M. McPherson. I'm trying ...
... books will be relisted in order of how many other LT-ers share each one. When I do that to your catalog, the top book is Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince which is cataloged by 9645 LT-ers including you. Now if you scroll halfway down the list, to the point where there are as many books ...
... Potter and the Deathly Hallows
To be honest, I'm not all that excited about this title. But I felt the same about Half-Blood Prince before reading the book, and now I love it. I'm assuming the same will happen after I get used to "Deathly Hallows".
Others before me on the Leaky Cauld ...
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You know how when you read a book, the author's tone lends itself to a giving the work a texture or color? Harry Potter has a very light tone or texture, and Tolkien (although not really light reading, by any means) I think also has a lighter texture. I think both of those ...
... Gate.
2. Artemis Fowl, specially the last episode, The Lost Colony
3. City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau
4. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
5. Howl's Moving Castle
... which is intended as YA lit, but reads easily and well, and without much background needed at all.
Oh, and yes - Harry Potter, of course :)
Interesting that people seem to either vehemently love or hate Half Blood Prince...
To add to the fray, I'm going to have to cast my vote for it as favorite thus far. I wasn't crazy about Order of the Phoenix, but I thought the lack of explanation behind Umbridge's evilness made her a ...
... science fiction.
I do read some fantasy, particularly young adult dystopias/utopias such as The Giver. I also like Harry Potter and Twilight, which I consider to be the fantasy realm.
... same with Cryptonomicon. Zodiac on the other hand was fun and pretty easy to read.
"Movie books" like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings are probably very good for those that are "new" to bookreading, and show them how much better then the movie they are. Might add Bourne ...
... this in my blog a long time ago, but it's relevant to the horcrux/Dumbledore/Snape conversation:
The last time I reread Half-Blood Prince, one of the scenes that stuck out to me was when Dumbldore shows Harry his memory of visiting Tom Riddle in the orphanage. One of the last things that Tom ...
... buy them today, (didn't know about this site until yesterday), but bought them yesterday.
All Dover Thrift Editions
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
White Fang by Jack London
Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson
Frankenstein ...
I found I couldn't really connect with Half-Blood Prince, I'm not sure why. I guess I felt it didn't have the emotional depth the preceeding novels did. It certainly had plenty of action though. I really should try reading it again.
... of Azkaban is probably my favorite, though; the plot fitted together so nicely, and, of course, it introduced Lupin.
Half-Blood Prince really improved upon multiple readings for me; initially, I loved the Spinner's End chapter and the end of the book, beginning with the chapter "Horcruxes, ...
... I want him to feel trust.
But we all know that's not what we're talking about here. And I wonder - what's the issue with Harry Potter? Is it that the witching and wizardry defy or is blasphemous to christianity and thus teaches defiance and blasphemy? Or is it a general notion that kids ...
... word aloud. The parents that complain about those words have no clue what their children are listening to!
The whole Harry Potter issue is amazing to me too. Down here, these books have probably been the subject of more book banning talk than any other. Some lady in the area is even ...
... day we were told that if we taught The Chocolate War, we would essentially be putting our jobs on the line.
While Harry Potter has been used in the past, I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole in the classroom!
I agree that the best audio book reader I've heard so far is Jim Dale with the Harry Potter books. He his fantastic and totally spoiled me for other audio books. I stopped listening to them because I didn't like any of the readers up until now.
I just recently decided to take another shot at ...
... that thing about him calling her 'querida' is dead on.
Sirius Black, Severus Snape, and Remus Lupin, in that order, from Harry Potter
Strat from the 'time' series by Caroline B. Cooney
The Phantom (Erik) from The Phantom of the Opera (not sure if you'd actually count this as YA, ...
The Prisoner Of Azkaban is defintely my favourite, with The Half-Blood Prince a close second. But I didn't think that Order of the Phoenix was that bad. I agree with JBookLover, Chamber of Secrets was my least favourite too.
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and this is just a cute one of my son dressed as Dumbledore for when we went to the midnight Harry Potter party for The Half Blood Prince.
boekerij in Recommend Site Improvements : Median/mean book obscurity - not entirely sure I understand it. (Nov 16, 2006, 12:43am)
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The most shared book seems to be Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, though it is not quite clear--or, as you wish, it is rather obscure--exactly how many Thingamabrarians are sharing it or rather how many copies of it are known to LibraryThing.
At present, LT's JBookLover in Romance - from historical to contemporary : TOO Many Books? (Nov 13, 2006, 12:15pm)
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demon - it is still scheduled to come today. I can't wait. I haven't been this excited about getting a book since I got Half Blood Prince
Luckily I can't spend too much on books because I put about 70% of my income in savings and about 10% goes to Neflix, bills, etc. (It is great to be ...
I have to admit I loved Face on the Milk Carton and I read the whole series! But I absolutely hate with a passion Harry Potter!
... two short Lord of the Rings fics posted, the rest are bit and pieces on my hard drive :)
Aside from LotR, I read some Harry Potter and actually got started reading fanfiction with Pride and Prejudice.
Honestly, I think that if the major concerned groups that have banned Harry Potter should pause and look at their own libraries, book or otherwise. How many of them will have Disney movies in their collections? How many will have a series of children's fairy tales like Cinderella or even Dr. Seuss ...
PhilipMarlowe, the ones who banned Harry Potter are the Catholics! Even though I am a catholic myself, I strongly object to the church deciding which books are good and which are not. In this case, for example, what the heck did they base their decision on?
If nothing else, HP promotes the ...
... Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwe ...
... same level as the two Wills:
Iorek from His Dark Materials
Ender Wiggin from Ender's Game, etc.
Ron Weasley from Harry Potter
Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice
Mr. Knightley from Emma
Mr. Rochester from Jane Eyre
Those last 3 obviously aren't YA books and technically I ...
... Pond
Prince Caspian from the Narnia series
Will Parry from the His Dark Materials series
Remus Lupin from Harry Potter
Will Stanton from The Dark is Rising
Apparently I collect Book Boyfriends fairly easily. :)
Gilbert from Anne of Green Gables. Yum...
And the Weasley twins from Harry Potter.
And Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice...
Has anyone mentioned Harry Potter? I think J.K. Rowling started a reading revolution with this book and all of us YA librarians owe her a debt of gratitude!
... barely any YA for the last few years, so now there's so much that looks interesting!
I don't think people are against Harry Potter and The DaVinci Code for quite the same reasons. I haven't read the DaVinci Code, but I get the impression that it's not actually a very good book - it's ...
... to read but he's a bit particular. He likes to read fantasies like Eragon, Xanth books, Ranger's Apprentice and Harry Potter (the same kind of books I loved to read at his age). It never occurred to me to ask if he would want to read I am the Messenger when I was reading it, but I'll ...
... Peeps by Scott Westerfeld (I'm reading The Last Days by him now), Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes and the Harry Potter books.
Some of my favorite non-paranormal stories that I've read recently are The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison and Boy Meets Boy ...
... at present 4,303 copies in members's libraries, Catcher in the Rye scores the 10th place in popularity ranking, while Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (7,026 copies owned) is the most often owned book along LibraryThing. top 1,000 ...
... of Fire has overtaken it as #1 Favourite over the past couple of readings. It's just so cool. I really loved The Half-Blood Prince too, though... I think it might overtake GoF eventually.
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince; I'm biased for anything Snape, so the more he appears in the story, the more I enjoy it. I liked his portions in OOTP, but the revelation of Spinner's Alley and his interaction with both Narcissa and Bellatrix was exquisite. The plot was well developed, ...
... crept into the equation there because there was no room for them anywhere else
~ one for my non-series Anne Rices and Harry Potter, plus a couple of other children's books
~ one for vampire/witch-related Anne Rices
~ one for cookbooks
~ two shorter shelves for Valdemar-related Merc ...
... is read and taught at upper school/university level, so many people who have bought and read it didn't do so for pleasure. Harry Potter is often given as a birthday or Christmas present, even to those who detest the series, because it's the kind of book aunts think nephews might like... Now in ...
... all.
This my first group and thus my first message.
I finishede Siddharta by Herman Hesse yesterday and started on The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli. Apart from that I am reading everything I can put my hands on concerning two persons, one dead, the other alive. I am a translator ...