TerryPratchettBooks.com
Rated • 48 reviews • fantasy books, humor, terry pratchett, books • terrypratchettbooks.com
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Brian is a 60 year old guy from Hitchin, England, UK
I like looking on the bright side. I relate very much to the Mediterranean extended-family, take-it-slow, money-isn't-everything outlook on life. I'm not a great cook but I like cooking, especially Mediterranean food. I'm interested in environmental issues. My main hobby is flying (on a PC simulator).
The people I admire most are those who see no end to pain, illness, grief or disability and who still retain a sense of humour, people who spend time making life better for others in any way, and people with toxic parents who have "broken the chain" in bringing up their own children.
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CREATE READERS: Blood Red Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick
Rated • 0 reviews • childrens books, books, arthur ransome • govt.nz
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Harry Potter Wiki - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Rated • 4 reviews • childrens books, books, harry potter • wikia.com
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Google Search
Rated • 1 review • childrens books, books, harry potter • google.co.uk
Having just read "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" again for the fourth time, I realised how much detail I still hadn't taken in from the previous readings (owing to my bad habit of reading too fast when gripped by a plot).
Exasperated by my lack of attention, on the last reading I put together a list of questions whose answers I still didn't know from previous readings. Then I thought that these would make a fun set of questions for a "Mastermind" style quiz, so here they are. If you have read the book, see how you do!
(I have tried to avoid spoilers and questions easily answered from on-line digests.)
- Whose blue eyes does Harry keep seeing in the fragment of mirror, and where did this fragment come from?
- Why is Ron barefoot when he is standing by the grave at Shell Cottage?
- What leads Harry to the Horcrux in a particular high-security vault?
- How did Dumbledore come into possession of the elder wand and the invisibility cloak?
- Rita Skeeter publishes a malicious version of the deaths of Kendra (Dumbledore's mother) and Ariana (his sister). How did each of these people actually die?
- How does Harry realise firstly where the general location of the Ravenclaw Horcrux must be, and secondly where it actually is?
- As the final battle of Hogwarts approaches, a new method of getting between Hogwarts and Hogsmeade is used both for getting into Hogwarts, and for evacuating many of the students. Who accidentally caused this new method to come into existence, and what was this person doing at the time?
- Towards the end of the story, Voldemort kills the bravest man that Harry Potter ever knew for a mistaken reason. What (exactly) was Voldemort's mistake?
The answers... are all in the book!
[The Bartimaeus Trilogy, and other good books for treating Harry Potter Withdrawal]
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Inspector-Wallander.org, Kurt Wallander & Henning Mankell...
Rated • 3 reviews • mystery novels, tv, books, entertainment, sweden • inspector-wallander.org
One of the best things I have seen on TV for a long time is the original Swedish version of Henning Mankell's Inspector Wallander, starring Krister Henriksson and Johanna Sällström (Johanna later died tragically), which has been running on BBC4. The BBC (for reasons best known to themselves) have suspended the series after 10 episodes, deciding to show the remaining 3 episodes of this series over the Christmas period (actually as of October 2009 they are starting again with the entire 13 episodes).
The cinematography, atmosphere, acting and stories have all been really first class. A good English language version of 3 episodes starring Kenneth Branagh introduced Wallander to many English viewers who (like me) had never heard of him, but the original Swedish version is even better.
Wallander has some of the melancholy of Inspector Morse (Kenneth Branagh was dubbed "Inspector Norse"), but he is not the "prima donna" of John Thaw's classic interpretation of Morse. Krister Henriksson plays Wallander as a serious cop, well able to work with colleagues (including his screen daughter Linda) who are real people with real problems. The sometimes tedious conventions of English and American TV detective shows are refreshingly missing in Wallander. The events in the stories are often quite brutal, but are counterbalanced by the natural beauty of the area, the realistic and absorbing personal relationships, and the quietness of the professional police operations.
The Inspector Wallander web site, intended for English-speaking fans, is an excellent source of information on the series. Among other things you can find out about the second Swedish series, and get advice on a logical reading order for the translated books.
