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07-14-2007, 09:32 AM
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Cats have never forgotten that they were worshipped as gods
and had losing face - a cat who has been made to look silly is not a happy feline generally ..especially if they can't pretend it was all a figment of your imagination. My cousins' cat failed to walk on water (ran across a pond covered in not quite strong enough lily pads with inevitable consequences) and tried to play it coolwhen he scrambled out -as if fallling in and getting covered with weed was all part of the plan...
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07-19-2007, 11:28 AM
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Blithe Spirit
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Harry Potter spoilers on the net.
I want to wait until Saturday morning. I really do. But the bad thoughts keep coming back. Must not look. Must not.....aaaaaaaaaargghhh..........
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07-22-2007, 08:12 AM
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Odinic Wanderer
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Then imagine if you insisted on waiting for the Danish tranlation before reading it. . . .
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07-22-2007, 08:52 AM
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The question is, What Will Rowling Do Next? I assign her to Orthanc for being such a master of the evil plot twist... 
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07-22-2007, 10:03 AM
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Odinic Wanderer
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Actually I assign Rowling. . . She is a good writer, but she also has a lot of room for improvement.
She leaves a lot of loose ends or at least things that does not makes sence when you think it over in her books (regarding magic) Also the way she descriped the feeling Harry felt in situations regarding Ginny. . .to be honest I found it kind of pathetic. And still she is very skillfull, so skillfull that one cannot put down her books when first starting. (this is not reffering to the latest book as I have to wait come October for the Danish version)
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07-22-2007, 01:03 PM
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A Mere Boggart
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Yes, she's nothing like Tolkien or Pullman for lingering descriptions or that kind of poetic beauty - and there's too much "he said" and "she said". But you cannot fault her for pulling off a gripping plot! The characters are much more developed in this one anyway - Harry is much less of a 'pouty Potter'...much less SHOUTING...
I shall avoid telling you too much though 
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07-22-2007, 04:03 PM
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Odinic Wanderer
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heh I just went to see the latest movie and I was worshiping those subtitles. . .otherwise it would have been very confusing.
Even though the main names are the same as in English some of the lesser charachters (especially their surnames) are different in Danish, but the worst part is the curses and spells. . .only few are the same. Come to think of it LotR would have been worse had I not read them in English as most names and places has a Danish tranlation. . .only when having read the books in both Danish and English do you realise how brilliant the tranlations really are.
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07-24-2007, 01:07 PM
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A Mere Boggart
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Why did they translate the spell names? They're in a kind of cod-Latin so they may as well have left 'em?
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