Whoa, Nilly! You write like a twelve year old but you think like a genius, Kid! Wow, you've got heart! I love the Potter books even more than I did before thanks to your absolutely crazy, rambling and brilliantly insightful analysis. Thanks!
Niska: Mr. Reynolds? You died, Mr. Reynolds. Mal: Seemed like the thing to do.
'War Stories'
The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration
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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***
Tod - Aug 05, 2007 12:12:58 pm PDT #2287 of 3301
You smelled the smell?
omnis_audis - Aug 05, 2007 12:59:26 pm PDT #2288 of 3301
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Wow Nilly! You are awesome. You verbalized things that I couldn't put into words. You caught some things that I didn't, and clarified some others. And please stop being sorry for being a sap! I'm 36 y.o male, and I'm one too (Hi, my name is BC, and I'm a sap..... :: from group :: Hi BC) I think we all are to a certain extent. Which is why we love these books. They pull at the heart strings something fierce.
One of the things I found interesting, and I hope you expand on, as my words won't be as good. Dumbledore's painting behind Snapes chair. First perceived as turning your back to, but later seen as "I got your back". And ya, the son's name Albus Servus, o boy did that bring tears (and again now thinking of it)
I look forward to release of all in paperback. Hopefully a pretty box set. I'll buy them all then. Yes, if you can believe it, I borrowed all of them to read. I did buy the first 3 in paperback, but when I learned my sister hadn't read any of them, promptly gave them to her for Christmas.
Ginger - Aug 05, 2007 1:10:03 pm PDT #2289 of 3301
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It's so good to get a Nilly recap. I never felt like I had really watched a Firefly episode until I read Nilly's insights.
Tod, I think you're new. Welcome! (English is not Nilly's native language. She's in Israel.)
Sue - Aug 05, 2007 1:37:54 pm PDT #2290 of 3301
hip deep in pie
That was a great recap Nilly. Did you read it in Hebrew or English?
I was reading an article in Time today about the team that help put the American version together and they talk about how Rowling is always open to suggestions and edits. Which lead me to wonder, are the Scholastic editors her main editors? Or does she also have a team in the UK? Or does that US team just edit for the language changes to the US version?
beth b - Aug 05, 2007 1:56:52 pm PDT #2291 of 3301
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
thank you Nilly - and you put into words something that I knew but hadn't thought - the trust he Harry had to chose in Dumbledore -
Now I am thinking about the shapes of all the books
Margaret - Aug 05, 2007 2:16:23 pm PDT #2292 of 3301
Wow, Nilly. Just wow.
Narrator - Aug 05, 2007 2:29:40 pm PDT #2293 of 3301
The evil is this way?
Nilly, it is such a pleasure to read your posts again. Your comments about "Deathly Hallows" remind me so much of why I loved reading your "Firefly" posts. They are thought-provoking celebrations of a great story well-told.
Margaret - Aug 05, 2007 2:54:50 pm PDT #2294 of 3301
Narrator? Narrator Narrator Bronze Narrator much-missed Narrator of Bronze??
Narrator - Aug 05, 2007 3:15:26 pm PDT #2295 of 3301
The evil is this way?
"Narrator of the Bronze"? That has a very nice ring to it -- like I own an estate or something.
Yes, that's me -- Estate owning (No, not really, but let's all pretend I am rich, shall we?) Narrator of the Bronze.
DCJensen - Aug 05, 2007 3:25:58 pm PDT #2296 of 3301
All is well that ends in pizza.
Narrator has always been here...
t /kosh