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'Destiny'
The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration
This thread is a focused discussion group. Please see the first post below for the current topic and upcoming book discussions. While natter will inevitably happen, we encourage you to treat this like a virtual book club and try to keep your posts in that spirit.
By consensus, this thread is reopened specifically to discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It will be closed again once that discussion has run its course.
***SPOILER ALERT***
lisah - Aug 01, 2007 10:29:44 am PDT #2182 of 3301
Punishingly Intricate
Kathy A - Aug 01, 2007 10:32:54 am PDT #2183 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Lisah, it's at Fernwithy's LJ, "Teddy Lupin and the Forest Guard" (she's leaving the character's name off for another week to guard against spoilers above the fold).
lisah - Aug 01, 2007 10:34:27 am PDT #2184 of 3301
Punishingly Intricate
Thanks!
omnis_audis - Aug 01, 2007 11:14:29 am PDT #2185 of 3301
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I didn't realize there were adult versions of the books. Are there more wand innuendos?
Polter-Cow - Aug 01, 2007 11:17:27 am PDT #2186 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
They're just different covers, omnis. The text is the same. But they look so much more respectable.
tommyrot - Aug 01, 2007 11:18:25 am PDT #2187 of 3301
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Are there more wand innuendos?
Hot wand-on-wand action!
omnis_audis - Aug 01, 2007 11:19:44 am PDT #2188 of 3301
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Ya, I figured Polter-Cow. Just being silly. And thankfully tommyrot picked up on it! I knew it! HP is gay and he converted Ron!
victor infante - Aug 01, 2007 11:21:36 am PDT #2189 of 3301
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Are there more wand innuendos?
There couldn't possibly be more wand innuendos. DH already owns all the wand innuendos there are.
DavidS - Aug 01, 2007 2:20:51 pm PDT #2190 of 3301
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Chinese Market Awash in Fake Harry Potter Books
It's like...fanfic in the marketplace. People wrote their own versions and sold them as HP7. Then there were the pirated versions.
It's crazy no-intellectual-rights land!
Btw, Aimee, did you know that the A&E Biography on JKR is available to be seen on YouTube? It's interesting.
From the Times story:
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Some homegrown “Harry Potter” authors are also unabashed about their forays into publishing.
One such writer is a manager at a Shanghai textile factory named Li Jingsheng. “I bought Harry Potter 1 through 6 for my son a couple of years ago, and when he finished reading them, he kept asking me to tell him what happens next,” he explained. “We couldn’t wait, so I began making up my own story and in May last year, I typed it up on my computer. I had to get up early and go to bed late to write this novel, usually spending one hour, from 6 to 7 in the morning and 10 to 11 in the evening to write it.”
The result was “Harry Potter and the Showdown,” a 250,000-word novel, the final version of which he placed recently on Web sites, followed by a notice saying he was looking for publishers. The book quickly logged 150,000 readers on a popular Chinese site, Baidu.com’s Harry Potter fan Web page.
“This is fantastic,” Gu Guaiguai, an admiring reader, wrote online about “Showdown.” “I wonder if Rowling would bother to continue to write if she had read it.”
Another reader was even more breathless. “You are the pride of our Harry Potter fans,” he wrote, adding, “We expect you to go on and write Harry Potter number eight,” which Mr. Li has in fact already begun.
Aims - Aug 01, 2007 6:38:06 pm PDT #2191 of 3301
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Btw, Aimee, did you know that the A&E Biography on JKR is available to be seen on YouTube? It's interesting.
I did not! I shall find it!! Thank you muchly, kind sir.