Harry Potter - the end

Wow he does hahaha

I saw the first couple of films before I read the books....the books are WAY better. Read em Pharren, I dare you!

Once I finish reading all these, maybe I will...

Perspective is weird because of the size of The Red Book; it's 15.75 in (40 cm) tall. The books near the top are normal paperback book size.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and I have two more books in my truck at work

lol, you should see my Ufology/Cryptozoology book collection.

This isn't my book collection... this is just books that I have, but haven't read yet. And I keep adding individual books that are related to other books I'm reading, and then sticking them ahead of the others in the queue :\

My book collection is the bookshelf in the background, which has 6 shelves (4 of them have books stacked vertically so I can fit like 4 times as many books per shelf), a few stacks of books on the dresser to the left, and I-don't-even-know how many shelves of books in two different closets filled with books from when I was a kid. Plus two boxes of Archie books (not comics, but the comic "books" that have the equivalent of a few comics in them). A few hundred books, easily. AND NONE OF THEM ARE HARRY POTTER BOOKS

I <3 book collections.

My UFO/Crypto stuff isnt even close to all I have. Its just a recent passion of mine that ive gotten into and love reading about.

I have the entire Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance collection dating up to the late 90s. Literally 350+ or so books all together of those two world themes themselves. I have the entire Wheel of Time saga. Demon Wars and all other types of fantasy novels. A lot of Piers Anthony stuff. Shit, too much to name really.

A friend of mines review of this:

Harry Potter and the Final Moronic Plot Contrivance, pt 2:
3/10

so here's the jist of the discussion my GF and i had after watching this:
the first several films were basically stand-alone whimsy that were cute and breezily enjoyable, with the whole voldemort and tragic history thing kind of this lurking backdrop that gave everything an unexpected bit of gravitas.
around the 4th or 5th movie, it became an ongoing BBC mini-series that basically served to catalog the ongoing Adventures of The Moping Twats before going 'orite, gravitas' and then shitting out what is essentially a lightsaber duel where nobody moved and only ended when one person had a stroke.

also: wasn't a big point in the earlier films about how spells are about concentration, the words, invoking power, and a deep knowledge of how to manipulate magical energy?
when did that become "wands are blasters, and when they're not blasters they're force field generators"?

I see Dune and Nightangel Trilogy. What are those Wizard books?

That's what I said! Except it was the 3rd movie. That's when Harry's godfather is introduced, and a bunch of other persistent (non-teacher, non-student or student family) characters are introduced.



In the 5th movie, Order of the Phoenix. Before then, I think maybe Voldemort blocks a spell or two, but everyone else has to actually say a spell, not just flick their wand.

I just watched Deathly Hallows part 1, and was planning on going to see part 2 after, but I thought part 1 was pretty disappointing. There was a "wand = blaster" part at the beginning where Harry and friends are attacked in a coffee shop, and one of them flicks their wand and the bad guy dies. Another one uses a spell for once, and the bad guy lives. Huh? Not that I mind too much... I kinda like the faster action of the blaster-wands, though the original thought-out dueling had it's own charm too.



Young adult books, kinda like the Wrinkle in Time series, but better imo. I read the first two in the 80s (when they were new), and in a fit of nostalgia, looked them up on Amazon and found that the series continued for several more books, so I bought them. They're by some woman named Diane Duane.

The Dune books and all those on the bookcase and the dresser aren't part of my queue. How the hell did you recognize the Night Angel books? You can also see the Ender's Game series, Asimov's Robots and Foundation series, Star Wars expanded universe, Wheel of Time series, Wrinkle in Time series, and Dark Tower series, but you can't read the names. Or at least I can't. You recognized the Night Angel books so maybe the image is clearer on your monitor than it is on my laptop.

This is where not reading the books becomes "fail", since they didn't really touch on it at all during the movies.

At one point (in book 5 or 6) there's a part of a chapter dedicated to casting spells without the words or without thinking about it too much in advance, due to the previously-but-poorly-movie-explored sequence of Legilimency and Occlumency (reading minds, and blocking it, respectively.)

Check this out:

The Real-Life Wizard Behind "Harry Potter"
http://paranormal.about.com/od/madscience/a/The-Real-Life-Wizard-Behind-Harry-Potter.htm

M'lady learned how to cast spells without using incantations by reading those chapters.

Just saw part 2. Much better than part 1 imo. Didn't find reading the book to be necessary at all.

Ive always found that you dont have to read books to know whats going on in Movies. To me, they are two separate entities and while the movies may stretch things out a bit, you dont have to read the book to know things or to be "schooled" on whats happening. Besides, some people dont like reading and prefer movies anyhow and vice versa. They are in no way synonymous with each other IMO.

You never hear people say "You need to watch the Star Wars movies before you read the Star Wars books" or some shit like that.

Hell, ive never read a damn thing by Tolkien and I watched those Lord of the Ring flicks and I dont care about reading the books.

Im willing to bet that a shit ton of people have never read any comics about all of these super hero movies thats been coming out. I hated the X-Men comics and stopped reading them - However, I LOVED the X-Men movies. So someone may actually prefer Harry Potter movies to the actual books.

I think its more "fail" to make a statement that you must read a book in order to understand the movie. Who cares? As long as they enjoy the movie.

Its a very facetious comment to say that its "fail"