Just in case I haven't said so before: best. summaries. ever.
Thanks. This is important to me, because you're one of the precious few people around who can fully appreciate a Harry Potter review crammed to the gills with DBZ injokes.
I like HBP and all, but you can probably skip right over the middle without missing much. That's sorta my strategy for most of the HP books, actually.
Yeah, I'm starting to understand no how everyone can go "I finished the book in five hours!" right after buying it. Of course, if I tried that, everyone would tell me I couldn't make any snap judgements until I'd pored over the entire thing.
DBZ injokes make everything better. So do missile-firing robots.
I think most people (and by "most people" I mean "me") got through it so quickly because right around the middle you start realizing that shit it's 4 a.m. and the sentences all start running together and you lose track of the plot threads and go make yourself a nice snack instead of worrying about the damn book. Then the caffeine high hits right around the end, so you're awake for the exciting bits.
I get the DBZ injokes too (I even got the "Visions of Naked Vegeta and Barduck" ref), which is odd, seeing how I haven't watched the show in ages; I even considered the 9-episode long fight against Sensui in YYH to be excessive.
I must be one of the freaks who finished the book in three-four days. Though I, too, was speeding through the second half, partly because of the filler, and partly because the endgame scenario demands rapid consumption.
On Quirrell, Voldemort also said he is dead. According to him, Q died when V left his body, from the bragging in the graveyard in GoF.
Loved Snape and the bear. Seems sort of... foreshadowing. And, the anagrams! I've never been good at them, I had no idea LV's moniker was an anagram until it was revealed in book 2. Now, everyone's got ideas based on switching letters from one name to another while I'm just sitting on the sidelines, going, Where do they come up with this stuff???
If Rowling's books were even a fraction as entertaining as your summaries, I'd marry the woman, or at least contemplate being her gigolo.
Snark towards her aside, your truly schizophrenic pace on this one was the best thus far. I like it better when the chapters suck ass, as you go all psycho for us, and that's much to the good.
Hey there. I have been enjoying your chapter summaries so much, thanks for continuing them :)
Anyway, I thought you'd get a kick out of the French version of Lord Voldything's anagram name... in order for the "I am Lord Voldemort" thing to work in French (Je suis Voldemort), his actual name is... get this... Tom Elvis Jedusor. Pretty funny, although I think many of yours were much funnier.
Well, thanks again for the laughs. This "Stepford wife/mom" appreciates it more than you know. ;) Looking forward to the next chapter. Have a great day!
Anyway, I thought you'd get a kick out of the French version of Lord Voldything's anagram name... in order for the "I am Lord Voldemort" thing to work in French (Je suis Voldemort), his actual name is... get this... Tom Elvis Jedusor.
Huh... that's so sad and wrong! I love it! Of course, "Voldemort" is French for "Flight of Death", though I have never seen anyone comment on that.
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I like HBP and all, but you can probably skip right over the middle without missing much. That's sorta my strategy for most of the HP books, actually.
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Thanks. This is important to me, because you're one of the precious few people around who can fully appreciate a Harry Potter review crammed to the gills with DBZ injokes.
I like HBP and all, but you can probably skip right over the middle without missing much. That's sorta my strategy for most of the HP books, actually.
Yeah, I'm starting to understand no how everyone can go "I finished the book in five hours!" right after buying it. Of course, if I tried that, everyone would tell me I couldn't make any snap judgements until I'd pored over the entire thing.
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I think most people (and by "most people" I mean "me") got through it so quickly because right around the middle you start realizing that shit it's 4 a.m. and the sentences all start running together and you lose track of the plot threads and go make yourself a nice snack instead of worrying about the damn book. Then the caffeine high hits right around the end, so you're awake for the exciting bits.
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I must be one of the freaks who finished the book in three-four days. Though I, too, was speeding through the second half, partly because of the filler, and partly because the endgame scenario demands rapid consumption.
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Loved Snape and the bear. Seems sort of... foreshadowing. And, the anagrams! I've never been good at them, I had no idea LV's moniker was an anagram until it was revealed in book 2. Now, everyone's got ideas based on switching letters from one name to another while I'm just sitting on the sidelines, going, Where do they come up with this stuff???
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Snark towards her aside, your truly schizophrenic pace on this one was the best thus far. I like it better when the chapters suck ass, as you go all psycho for us, and that's much to the good.
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Anyway, I thought you'd get a kick out of the French version of Lord Voldything's anagram name... in order for the "I am Lord Voldemort" thing to work in French (Je suis Voldemort), his actual name is... get this... Tom Elvis Jedusor. Pretty funny, although I think many of yours were much funnier.
Well, thanks again for the laughs. This "Stepford wife/mom" appreciates it more than you know. ;) Looking forward to the next chapter. Have a great day!
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Huh... that's so sad and wrong! I love it! Of course, "Voldemort" is French for "Flight of Death", though I have never seen anyone comment on that.
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