Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)
Registered by 
GoryDetails
of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 7/21/2005
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
GoryDetails of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 7/21/2005 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
Time for me to join the "reading HP6" club - the copy I ordered from Amazon UK (because the rest of my set includes UK editions, AND because I liked this cover the best) arrived today!
This is the sixth in the Harry Potter series, and while I found book 5 painful to read in a number of respects (and not just because of the loss of a key character), I admit I'm not expecting much from this book. But I thoroughly enjoyed the first three books and most of the fourth (although by book four the series began to suffer from "author's too rich, editor's too scared" syndrome, IMO), and I'm willing to give this book a chance.
Later: Well, I liked this one better than book 5, but not by much. It still felt way too bloated. It opened well, with a nice mix of threat and humor, and there were some enjoyable bits, but overall I didn't feel it was up to the level of the first four books.
Bits I liked: the description of Snape's house, with books lining the walls - I've always liked that guy {wry grin}. [Side note: the author photo on the back shows Rowling against a backdrop of her own bookshelves, so I had a jolly time trying to make out the titles and authors. Adrian Mole, Freud, Agatha Christie, Joyce...] And Fred and George were delightful as always. "U-No-Poo", indeed! And some aspects of the flashbacks which revealed more about the relationships between Harry's father and his friends - and their treatment of Snape - were very interesting (though I think the whole pensieve concept has been relied on a bit too heavily). And the final sequences were as dramatic as one could wish for. But I still feel that these later books could have benefited from some serious trimming - even though I realize that there are plenty of folks out there who'd prefer them to be even longer!
[Nit: For some reason, at one point this book refers to Nocturne Alley as "Knockturn" instead; no idea if that was a memory-blip by Rowling or a typo that didn't get caught, but it caught my eye, as "Nocturne" was so much cooler.]
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Update, 7/23/2007: Since I've registered at least one copy of each of the books by now, here's the full series, with my comments to date:
Sorcerer's Stone
Chamber of Secrets
Prisoner of Azkaban [my favorite of the series!]
Goblet of Fire
Order of the Phoenix
Half-blood Prince
Deathly Hallows
This is the sixth in the Harry Potter series, and while I found book 5 painful to read in a number of respects (and not just because of the loss of a key character), I admit I'm not expecting much from this book. But I thoroughly enjoyed the first three books and most of the fourth (although by book four the series began to suffer from "author's too rich, editor's too scared" syndrome, IMO), and I'm willing to give this book a chance.
Later: Well, I liked this one better than book 5, but not by much. It still felt way too bloated. It opened well, with a nice mix of threat and humor, and there were some enjoyable bits, but overall I didn't feel it was up to the level of the first four books.
Bits I liked: the description of Snape's house, with books lining the walls - I've always liked that guy {wry grin}. [Side note: the author photo on the back shows Rowling against a backdrop of her own bookshelves, so I had a jolly time trying to make out the titles and authors. Adrian Mole, Freud, Agatha Christie, Joyce...] And Fred and George were delightful as always. "U-No-Poo", indeed! And some aspects of the flashbacks which revealed more about the relationships between Harry's father and his friends - and their treatment of Snape - were very interesting (though I think the whole pensieve concept has been relied on a bit too heavily). And the final sequences were as dramatic as one could wish for. But I still feel that these later books could have benefited from some serious trimming - even though I realize that there are plenty of folks out there who'd prefer them to be even longer!
[Nit: For some reason, at one point this book refers to Nocturne Alley as "Knockturn" instead; no idea if that was a memory-blip by Rowling or a typo that didn't get caught, but it caught my eye, as "Nocturne" was so much cooler.]
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Update, 7/23/2007: Since I've registered at least one copy of each of the books by now, here's the full series, with my comments to date:
Sorcerer's Stone
Chamber of Secrets
Prisoner of Azkaban [my favorite of the series!]
Goblet of Fire
Order of the Phoenix
Half-blood Prince
Deathly Hallows
Journal Entry 2 by GoryDetails at Post Office Bookswap Shelf (UBCZ), 353 Middlesex Rd. in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts USA on Monday, July 20, 2009
GoryDetails at Post Office Bookswap Shelf (UBCZ), 353 Middlesex Rd. in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts USA on Monday, July 20, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (7/20/2009 UTC) at Post Office Bookswap Shelf (UBCZ), 353 Middlesex Rd. in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Now that the film version of this book is out, I figured it was high time I released the book. I plan to leave it on the book-swap shelf in the Tyngsboro post office lobby at about 2:45 or so. Hope the finder enjoys it!
Now that the film version of this book is out, I figured it was high time I released the book. I plan to leave it on the book-swap shelf in the Tyngsboro post office lobby at about 2:45 or so. Hope the finder enjoys it!
