Many Happy Editions
My plan is: get all the UK hardbacks, which, I have recently
discovered, can be bought from a Canadian publishing company via
Amazon.ca - cheaper than buying through EBay. I also will try
to get copies (preferably hardbacks) of book 3 in other languages.
A couple of reasons why I want book 3 only: it's my favorite, and
getting all the books in multiple languages doesn't strike me as
being the best way to spend my book money.
Can I read all these languages? Heck no, although I've
studied French, Spanish, Italian Latin, and Japanese (I have
retained none of the Japanese). It would just be cool
to have books in cool languages. I'm happy for Rowling that
she is able to sell her books around the world, and happy for
non-English speakers that they have access to her stories.
And, I just like
learning foreign languages.
Oh, and about the movies: they did a great job with the first
one. A great book, a great story. Full of magic and
wonder. The second movie was, at best, as good as the second
book, which is the worst of the five. And I'm really just not
a fan of spiders. Creepy. The third movie? Well,
I'm not going to see it, I've decided. For a couple of
reasons. Their original Dumbledore had to be replaced, for one
thing. But mostly it's two other reasons: I heard that the
director has changed the style of the movie from the others.
In order to portray the characters as more normal teenagers, they
dispensed with the wizard robes, etc. The most important
reason, though, is that I don't want the movie to replace the
book-pictures in my head. That's what happened with the first
book: now when I read it, I see the movie. I can't imagine the
story for myself anymore. They did a good job, and it's a good
movie, but it changed the way I experience the book. I don't
want that to happen with the third book, since it's my favorite.
Can't you tell.
Dumbledore is cool.
Somewhere online, I encountered a contest that asked: "If you could be a character from the Harry Potter series, who
would you be?" I thought about it for a minute or so, and then
I knew.
I would be Albus Dumbledore. He is eminently wise and kind. He is
highly respected and greatly admired. Though he is not perfect, he
usually turns out to be right. And in a world of dementors and death
eaters, bureaucrats and bullies, he is Harry's refuge.
Books by J. K. Rowling
(O=own, R=read, E=enjoyed)
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