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Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon

Started by Friday, June 05, 2005, 08:25 PM NHFT

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Lloyd Danforth

I'm sure it is just a Doppleganger thing, but, it does occur to me that I've never seen Jason and Harry Potter in the same room!

Dreepa

While I will admit that the books are good..... I don't think that I will be at the bookstore.
I preordered my from the Library and will read it when it comes on the shelf.

If you want a good series ( A Game of Thrones George RR Martin)...not for kids.

Kat Kanning

Yes!!  Those are some of my favorite books.  Has he written a new one lately?  I just love the characters like the dwarf who you can't quite decide which side they're on.

Friday

Ooh! I will have to check them out.

I give my highest possible recommendation to the "His Dark Materials" trilogy by Philip Pullman.  Each one is better than the last.  They're pretty darned dark for children's books, though.  They roughly parallel "Paradise Lost".

Kat Kanning

Ooh!  I will have to check them out, too.

Lloyd Danforth

I guess I'll stick to reading my crappy mysteries.  A habit I got from Mom, who always said that she never read a book where she didn't learn something new.

Dreepa

Quote from: katdillon on June 09, 2005, 10:50 AM NHFT
Yes!!? Those are some of my favorite books.? Has he written a new one lately?? I just love the characters like the dwarf who you can't quite decide which side they're on.

New one comes out end of July.  ( It is 11 months late).
Best series I have ever read.

Friday make sure you have some free time because all  you will want to do is read them all. (3 so far and one on the way).

Kat Kanning

Oooh two much anticipated books coming out in July.

Friday

OMG!  The new "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" movie opens on the 15th, and the new HP comes out on the 16th.  I think I will have to go to the movies Friday night, then rush over to a bookstore at midnight!  :)

Willie Wonka is one of my all-time favorite movies.  You'd better not blow it, Johnny Depp...  >:D

Kat Kanning


SethCohn

Hmm, more proof Harry Potter is a libertarian....

The opening of the new book (quoted in fair use):

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Chapter 1: The Other Minister

It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind. He was waiting for a call from the President of a far distant country, and between wondering when the wretched man would telephone, and trying to suppress unpleasant memories of what had been a very long, tiring, and difficult week, there was not much space in his head for anything else. The more he attempted to focus on the print on the page before him, the more clearly the Prime Minister could see the gloating face of one of his political opponents. This particular opponent had appeared on the news that very day, not only to enumerate all the terrible things that had happened in the last week (as though anyone needed reminding) but also to explain why each and every one of them was the government's fault.

The Prime Minister's pulse quickened at the very thought of these accusations, for they were neither fair nor true. How on earth was his government supposed to have stopped that bridge collapsing? It was outrageous for anybody to suggest that they were not spending enough on bridges. The bridge was fewer than ten years old, and the best experts were at a loss to explain why it had snapped cleanly in two, sending a dozen cars into the watery depths of the river below. And how dare anyone suggest that it was lack of policemen that had resulted in those two very nasty and well-publicized murders? Or that the government should have somehow foreseen the freak hurricane in the West Country that had caused so much damage to both people and property? And was it his fault that one of his Junior Ministers, Herbert Chorley, had chosen this week to act so peculiarly that he was now going to be spending a lot more time with his family?

"A grim mood has gripped the country," the opponent had concluded, barely concealing his own broad grin.

explain why each and every one of them was the government's fault.

Gee, sounds a lot like a certain other group of people I know (grin)

Kat Kanning

It sounded like she was poking at some current political situations, heh.

jgmaynard

Quote from: russellkanning on June 07, 2005, 04:44 PM NHFT
Didn't Harry Potter invent the FSP?

You notice you never see Harry Potter and Jason Sorens in the same room at the same time?

Hmm.....

JM

YeahItsMeJP

I've never seen Harry Potter in a room period.

Or anywhere for that matter... except in my imagination when I am reading the books... :-D

Pat K

Was Colonel Potter from the 4077 mash unit Harry Potters Grandfather?