Harry Potter

[Jamezo]

Seriously. Hareios Poter kai he tou philosophou lithos.
And the University Classics Dept is organizing a reading session.
Just the thing to brush up your Attic...

I'm partial to brooms, myself, but whatever floats your boat...

[raster]

On the whole though, a good romp, with little brain work required to keep on top of things (if you want a workout in the fantasy stakes, try Kathryn Kerrs Daggerspell trilogy where you're trying to keep track of a number of characters 'souls' over 3 or 4 different timelines).

I loved the daggerspell trilogy, but it was over too quickly, I like the David Eddings series although it can drag a bit.
We are waiting for the Harry potter to come out in paperback to match the others so i guess we will borrow one.

[SPORK]

I'm rather partial to Alistair Maclean at the moment. I'm reading the Guns of Navarone right now, and just finished Where Eagles Dare. Oh, and before that I read The Golden Gate.

I reccomend them to everyone. Except hippies. And elephants.

[parsley]

I'm rather partial to Alistair Maclean at the moment. I'm reading the Guns of Navarone right now, and just finished Where Eagles Dare. Oh, and before that I read The Golden Gate.

I reccomend them to everyone. Except hippies. And elephants.

The Golden Rendezvous has always been my favourite. Classic stuff.

[Kickaha]

The Golden Rendezvous has always been my favourite. Classic stuff.

When Eight Bells Toll and Puppet on a Chain did it for me, oh yeah and Caravan to Vaccares and errrrr actually just about anything else he wrote

[Ixion]

Seriously. Hareios Poter kai he tou philosophou lithos.
And the University Classics Dept is organizing a reading session.
Just the thing to brush up your Attic...

Well, I'll be blowed. there's hope for the world yet. Erudition making a comeback. who would have thought it.

But Poter ? Not keramoV ? (Damn, I can't do Greek fonts)

[vifferman]

Butterfly brain.

Yeah. Whatever.
Did the reading thing last night instead, and finished the novel. Not so novel - no real surprises, and I'm not sure what got you so angry, Jim.

[James Deuce]

Yeah. Whatever.
Did the reading thing last night instead, and finished the novel. Not so novel - no real surprises, and I'm not sure what got you so angry, Jim.

Where did you get the idea I was angry? I like the little universe JKR has created, and I'm genuinely upset that one of the few people to show HP any genuine regard is dead. I'm expecting HP to end up as "Harry Sith" now. If I was a Weasley I'd be distancing myself from HP right now.

[vifferman]

Where did you get the idea I was angry?

Oops.
I didn't go back and read your original post, and I must've interpreted "upset" as being cross.

I like the little universe JKR has created, and I'm genuinely upset that one of the few people to show HP any genuine regard is dead. I'm expecting HP to end up as "Harry Sith" now. If I was a Weasley I'd be distancing myself from HP right now.

Maybe she's got that in mind - that Harry is lured to the darker side of magic?
I was having a bit of a ponder about HP being supposedly "pure of heart" or whatever yet being so tempted into using that potions text and so possessive of it.