The Tales of Beetle the Bard will be sold to public after all (JK ROWLING)

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Here's a link to the non-bank breaking standard edition: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DB0HG2/?tag=neogaf0e-20

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Beaten. But I have a picture!
 
That collectors edition does look really nice

edit: and it is now preordered. My Christmas shopping for my girlfriend is done
 
Ghost said:
...isn't the person who bought the other one going to be pissed?
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The original seven books were all handwritten and illustrated by her. Six were gifts and the other was auctioned for charity.
 
The collector's edition would be better if it was a pure reproduction of the handwritten version sold at auction....

Also, I don't know what it is, but something about Scholastic's covers for this and the Harry Potter books just rubs me in totally the wrong way. I think it might actually have to do with the typography rather than the art... although up to book four that was IMO pretty brutal, too :)

UK (and I presume international) cover
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SickBoy said:
Also, I don't know what it is, but something about Scholastic's covers for this and the Harry Potter books just rubs me in totally the wrong way. I think it might actually have to do with the typography rather than the art... although up to book four that was IMO pretty brutal, too :)
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I think I like the adult covers more than the regular versions.

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I picked it up yesterday as I was out filming and couldn't get it on launch. I'm going to start reading it today and looking at the size, probably finish it today so I'll be back with impressions a little later.
 
Why the fuck would you spend $100 on the special edition of a fucking BOOK??
 
Because the money goes to charity?

Anywho, my CE arrives on Monday. I also accidentally picked up the regular edition, which I'll probably pass on to my brother.
 
I pre-ordered the UK Standard version about 4 months ago, and got an email yesterday telling me that it shipped.

Does anyone collect? I've got UK 1st 1sts for all the HP books except the first two (which unfortunately are the really valuable ones). I had chance to buy 1st 10th of the first two for a reasonable price once, but was broke at the time (really wish I'd gotten them).

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thetrin said:
Why the fuck would you spend $100 on the special edition of a fucking BOOK??
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I take it you didn't spend the 35£ on the In Rainbows boxset? People spend it because they're collectors (books almost always go up in value)... or because they just have too muc money to blow...
 
PhoenixDark said:
She's contributed more to society than you ever will. How many charities do you bankroll again?
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Yes you are correct in saying that her charity donations make up for her boring books.
 
Rowling's stance on making an eBook/Kindle version of her books makes me mad. She says she'll "never" release Potter on ebook. Basically she's gone from pioneering single-mom reading renaissance lady, to cranky old broad.
 
Chinner said:
Yes you are correct in saying that her charity donations make up for her boring books.
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Yes it's the boring quality of her books that so many people are obsessed with them, and the reason she's sold millions upon millions.
 
I *like alot* but don't *love* Harry Potter.

Do I completely get why these books are the biggest shit since they wrote about Jesus? Not really.

But in a world where Dan-fucking-Brown can become a sensation, I try not to get to butthurt over Harry Potter. I enjoyed them well enough and if these are gonna be the best selling books EVAR, so be it.
 
mine is on it's way, got the UK standard version since all my HP books are the UK version already. (HINT: if anyone wanted the CE, the weak dollar/pound actually makes the UK CE about $25 cheaper).

btkadams said:
what is this? im so confused by what this is about.
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Some Wizard World fairy tales, though included among them if the full story of the 3 brothers from Deathly Hallows.
 
For those asking about what this is, exactly.

Specifically, it's the book that Dumbledore left to Hermione at the beginning of Book 7. And yes, arguably the most "important" of the tales included in this volume is that of the three brothers and the beginning of the Deathly Hallows.
 
What are the short stories in it about? Some guy called Beetle the Bard? Is it meant to be set in the HP universe or just a book from the HP universe?

I can barely remember Dealthy Hollows anymore, I'll probably miss the bits connected to it(that book sucked by the way. What a shitty fucking end, I hate writers who can't make a decent ending. So many can't).
 
The ending to Deathly Hallows fucking owned. I wasn't a fan of that page-and-a-half epilogue that took place years later, admittedly, but the last final REAL chapters of the Year 7 were amazing, IMHO.

I believe Beetle the Bard is the fictional author of said short stories. Or at least the one who compiled them into this volume.
 
Mejilan said:
The ending to Deathly Hallows fucking owned. I wasn't a fan of that page-and-a-half epilogue that took place years later, admittedly, but the last final REAL chapters of the Year 7 were amazing, IMHO.

I believe Beetle the Bard is the fictional author of said short stories. Or at least the one who compiled them into this volume.
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the ending was amazing

i liked the epilogue too though :o
 
Cyan said:
Totally. Drop the epilogue and the ending was incredible.

And I have interest in this book. It'll make a good Christmas present for my sister. :P
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Yup, I really wish I hadn't read the epilogue. Dull 'happily ever after' rubbish that could have ruined an excellent book. She could have posed so many interesing questions with that final part, but decided to do nothing.
 
Darklord said:
What are the short stories in it about? Some guy called Beetle the Bard? Is it meant to be set in the HP universe or just a book from the HP universe?

I can barely remember Dealthy Hollows anymore, I'll probably miss the bits connected to it(that book sucked by the way. What a shitty fucking end, I hate writers who can't make a decent ending. So many can't).
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dont know if this is correct, but my girlfriend said that the short stories are supposed to be the fairy tales that children are told in the harry potter universe.
 
Mejilan said:
The ending to Deathly Hallows fucking owned. I wasn't a fan of that page-and-a-half epilogue that took place years later, admittedly, but the last final REAL chapters of the Year 7 were amazing, IMHO.

I believe Beetle the Bard is the fictional author of said short stories. Or at least the one who compiled them into this volume.
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It pissed me off how they were killing characters off all over the place. I can understand it was a battle but characters that were in many of the books just died by "And harry saw Lupin and Tonks lying dead in the corner". Err...what?

Also Fred dying. What was the point? Other characters get a brave death, the last few were killed off for the sake of shock value. Even dobby has a better death.

Then the end where everyone gets together and lives happily ever after...it sucked.
 
That's the thing. IT WAS a war at the end. Wars are senseless, stupid things, and so are most of the deaths.

Not everyone has to go out with a bang. And in a situation like that, not everyone can.

Besides,
Fred's death
served a great purpose.
Makes Mrs. Weasley's face off with Bellatrix that much more impactful, especially considering how Bellatrix might have killed had not Molly stepped in. And not just for what the loss represented for Voldemort. That was awesome too, however.
As for
Lupin and Tonks... it was basically a Sirius & Harry relationship redux.

I typically re-read the entire series every year or two. But the final 4 or 5 chapters of Deathly Hallows I re-read every month. So awesome. I fucking LOVE how Harry doesn't change at the end. It's still all about Expelliarmus and Protego at the end. I get chills every time I read the Expelliarmus bit at the end.

Edit - I think I said "at the end" for like three sentences in a row there. At the end.
 
Darklord said:
It pissed me off how they were killing characters off all over the place. I can understand it was a battle but characters that were in many of the books just died by "And harry saw Lupin and Tonks lying dead in the corner". Err...what?

Also Fred dying. What was the point? Other characters get a brave death, the last few were killed off for the sake of shock value. Even dobby has a better death.

Then the end where everyone gets together and lives happily ever after...it sucked.
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Out of the whole series
Hedwig's death
affected me the most. Dunno why. Probably because she was a character you didn't expect to die or get much focus.
 
OuterWorldVoice said:
Rowling's stance on making an eBook/Kindle version of her books makes me mad. She says she'll "never" release Potter on ebook. Basically she's gone from pioneering single-mom reading renaissance lady, to cranky old broad.
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"Star Wars will never come out on DVD!"
 
JzeroT1437 said:
Out of the whole series
Hedwig's death
affected me the most. Dunno why. Probably because she was a character you didn't expect to die or get much focus.
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Yeah, that one came out of nowhere for me too. I think it was meant to indicate that it's finally time for Harry to put whatever was left of his childhood behind him. Part and parcel with leaving the Dursleys. :(
 
Cyan said:
Oh, I dunno.
The part where Harry starts calling Voldemort "Tom," just like Dumbledore did... so awesome.
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Oh, I just meant with his overall philosophy and modus operandi. I mean, he even got chastised in the beginning about his tendency to rely on Expelliarmus. But that didn't phase him.

As to how he handled that final encounter. He was completely in control. And he knew it. That's what the
Tom thing
was all about, IMHO. Voldemort was completely out of touch,
his power basically broken
, and didn't even know it. Harry did, though. :)

Fucking. Awesome.
 
The last part of Book 7 was awesome, I'll agree. But I still have three pretty significant complaints about the book as a whole:

1.
The Deathly Hallows themselves. It felt like a rushed attempt to add something new without really adding much at all. I didn't like that the invisibility cloak was retconned to be a super-invisibility cloak, and I felt the wandlore stuff could've been introduced earlier so it didn't feel so random. But honestly, I don't think that the last book needed to introduce something new out of left field--it should've focused more on wrapping up what the first six left open than random asides like this.

2.
The horcrux hiding spaces. After Book 6, I was expecting 7 to be contain a series of almost video game-like dungeons as they track down the remaining horcruxes. The closest thing we got was the bank robbery which, while pretty cool, felt too mundane for Voldemort. It just seemed like the cave hiding place was so much cooler than the others' that it was a major let-down.

3.
The camping trip. At first it was kinda cool to see how Hermione had been preparing, but the thing just dragged on and on and got so angsty...

Oh, and add one more agreement for
Hedwig's death
being poignant. It felt a lot like (Serenity ending spoiler)
Wash's death in Serenity
in that it made me really worry about who else was going to die.
 
JzeroT1437 said:
Out of the whole series
Hedwig's death
affected me the most. Dunno why. Probably because she was a character you didn't expect to die or get much focus.
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I was sad until about 3 paragraphs later when harry blows the owl up, then I just laughed. Then I reflected some more, and it was sad again

Darklord said:
It pissed me off how they were killing characters off all over the place. I can understand it was a battle but characters that were in many of the books just died by "And harry saw Lupin and Tonks lying dead in the corner". Err...what?

Also Fred dying. What was the point? Other characters get a brave death, the last few were killed off for the sake of shock value. Even dobby has a better death.

Then the end where everyone gets together and lives happily ever after...it sucked.
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Well, in order to make the death's seem "real" ONE of the Weasley's had to die. There were so many of them, Even Mrs. Weasley commented that there woudl probably be no way for hte entire family to get through everything together. Rowling said in an interview she almost killed Arthur in the 5th book when he was attacked by the snake, but decided not to.

As for Lupin, I was pretty sure he was going to die, because I figured Wormtail had to die, and it would make more sense that James, Sirus, Peter AND Lupin all died. Tonks death I think was just to make Teddy an orphan for the epilogue.

Didn't feel sad about it, but the death that took my most my surprise, was the random mention in the Battle at Hogwarts that Colin Creevy died, little annoying kid from Book 2 just bites it


Mejilan said:
I fucking LOVE how Harry doesn't change at the end.
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Well the underlying theme of the books is present in all 7 books. All seven books have their plot propeled and fuleld by one simple fact that is constant until the end of every book.

Harry Potter Is Always Wrong.
 
Holy shit @ the last replies. I actually have goosebumps and feel the urge to reread the entire series for the 10th time!
 
DrForester said:
Didn't feel sad about it, but the death that took my most my surprise, was the random mention in the Battle at Hogwarts that Colin Creevy died, little annoying kid from Book 2 just bites it
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Haha, yeah.
I remember laughing that there was no mention of a camera in his hands.
Then I hated myself a bit for reacting that way.

Harry Potter Is Always Wrong.
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He most definitely got it right in the end, though. EXPELLIARMUS!
 
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