Reddit reviews Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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Harry Potterand theSorcerer'sStone(Book 1)
Yes and yes.
For those of you who haven't read the books https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Sorcerers-Stone-Rowling/dp/059035342X
I'm not worried about people hating it. They can hate it all they want, I don't make my show for those people. I mean look a Harry Potter Books. This one has 413, 1 star reviews! But JK doesn't give a crap about those. The book's not for them. It's not for everyone. But the fans who do get it, boy do they get it. She's created such die hard mega fans it's insane.
Let the haters hate all they want, it's the lasting connections you make with people who respect and appreciate you is what matters the most.
It has been published under both titles.
I've never read HP books or seen the movies.
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Link
Used is fine.
Thanks for the contest. the books are always better than the movies!
I know it is not 80s but i immediately thought of
https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Sorcerers-Stone-Rowling/dp/059035342X
Happy Birthday to your little cutie! =) My oldest daughter turns 8 this week! The time goes by so fast, I wish I had a much longer time with mine being that little! I miss those days with her so much!
Anything would be fantastic however my birthday girl has been requesting the first harry potter book on her wishlist!
Noodles
Cheapest thing: Harry Potter
And this is how I first heard of JonTron
Alright, it's like this: books are like food. Start with something addictive, and probably bad for you (Conan The Barbarian for instance). Eventually you'll go looking for something more, but still delicious (the Harry Potter books are notorious for this). Eventually you'll order something heavier (For Whom the Bell Tolls is a good one), knowing that it's going to take a long time to digest.
TR;DR: Don't eat Thanksgiving dinner without an appetizer.
So, I too have had this debate many times, and I am heartened every time someone steps up in support of character based writing like Hanzi. My honest attitude toward this is "I want to believe". I want to believe that there is equal merit to Hanzi as letter-based phonetic writing like romanized, cyrillic, etc. But all the evidence seems to point to the contrary.
Some rebuttals to your points:
>I imagine there's also been an increase in the number of English speakers who have problems remembering the spelling for words where the pronunciation is not as obvious when read.
Let's assume this is the case. I mean, there's some evidence that it isn't the case but let's assume it is. There's a categorical difference between forgetting the "I before E, except after C" rule, or forgetting whether you need an 'e', an 'i', or an 'a' in words like "definitely", "separate", and "necessary" and fundamentally forgetting that a letter existed or how to handwrite a letter.
In this clip, there's a gentleman who "struggles with the character for 'thumb'." The above words are 3 and 4 syllables long but 拇指 (Mǔzhǐ) is only 2 syllables and he got half the word wrong. This is a far cry from simply mixing up the order of two letters like writing "beleive" instead of "believe". In other words, here's an article from just 2017 saying "Character amnesia has become more and more common...". Show me the article that says there's currently an epidemic of otherwise literate adults forgetting how to write basic words in English.
>The writing system survived for thousands of years because it was effective.
I mean, there's "effective" and there's "optimal", right? The Mayan civilization lasted for about 3000 years and had a glyph based writing system. Would you seriously advocate that this is an optimal system of writing? Probably not, right? So I think this argument is true but a little misleading, depending on what exactly you mean by "effective". Then again, "effective" is defined as "producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect". Was the "desired effect" of the language for its users to begin forgetting its own writing system?
>(ie, the use of physician, medic, and doctor for medical personnel), it gets a lot harder for the reader to guess what's being referred to.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Yeah, those are three different words with three different definitions and they might be industry-specific. But it's not about it being "harder" for a reader to understand the difference. When a reader comes across a word, they either know what the definition is or not. If it's a real word then then the burden is on the reader to go to a dictionary and look up what the word is. It's also the writers job to try to make their vernacular and syntax as clear as possible.
>Furthermore, they take up little room on the page
Ehhhhh, again, technically true, but so what? It's not even that big of a difference. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in English is 309 pages while in Chinese it's 242. This is not that much value-added.
Arguing that Hanzi has some benefits over romanization is like arguing that chopsticks has merit over the fork (another mistake in efficiency I think the East made). You're essentially saying "Sure, forks are ok, but look! you can't twirl a fork around like this can you?" It just strikes me as a pride thing.
Again! I'm a big fan of the language. I think there are some interesting logical ambiguities that exist in English that don't in Mandarin. For example, there's this joke in English — Question: "What did the logician say when his wife handed him their newborn and asked if it's a boy or a girl", Answer: "Yes" — Well, in Mandarin, since you specify Yes/No questions with the 'ma' particle, you avoid the ambiguity.
Come on, I know what I am talking about. None of those writers of that article know Slovak language, by the way. Be skeptical sometimes.
FACTS:
Consider this:
https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Sorcerers-Stone-Rowling/dp/059035342X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1491311673&sr=8-2&keywords=harry+potter+books
(hardcover - 320 pages)
and:
http://www.martinus.sk/?uItem=205410
(harcover - pages: 309)
And there are many more examples. We can go with a non-English author Jo Nesbo
https://www.amazon.com/Thirst-Harry-Hole-Novel/dp/0385352166/ref=sr_1_1_twi_har_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491311975&sr=8-1&keywords=jo+nesbo
(hardcover 480 pages)
http://www.martinus.sk/?uItem=226387
(hardcover 555 pages)
The same book in hardcover is 75 pages longer in Slovak. And that's a lot. If it would be 5 or 10 pages ok, insignificant. But 75 pages at about 500 pages long hardcover is a big differenct.
My personal experience is similar. English books are shorter than their Slovak counterparts.
English books are shorter than Slovak books, you can read them quicker. That's a fact.
>where is the definitive version
What does that even mean for an anthology of works written over hundreds of years by at least dozens of authors and editors?
>A lot rides on whether you believe genesis to be true.
Something can be non-factual and still contain truth. No, I'm not a Young Earth Creationist, That doesn't make the book useless to me.
>For example there will never be mistranslated, inaccurate copy of a harry potter book.
Great example. I own this book: Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal and this book: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. You don't even have to leave the front cover before you begin to run into translation problems. Does Philosopher mean the same thing to you as Sorcerer?
>Actually although all 3 gods are the "same" god, the teachings of each religion cannot coexist. To be more precise, if you get to heaven and the muslim god is there then jews and christians wont be getting in.
If they are truly the same, and I'm a Jew who makes my way to heaven, then by definition the "muslim god" will in fact be there. As will be the "christian god" and the "jewish god" because they are all the same one God.
>the teachings of each religion cannot coexist
They coexist now, but it sounds like you think I'm claiming that none of the teachings of those religions conflict. I'm not saying that.
>You cannot count muslims, jews and christians as belonging to the same religion. sorry, you cant just make up the rules.
Sorry, where are the rules posted? I guess I forgot to even read them. lol I could make a similar statement like "you can't just exclude who I'm allowed to count. Sorry, you can't just make up the rules" :)
>you will hardly find anyone who can logically accept one and not the other.
I'm guessing you've never lived in the southeastern United States. MLK Jr is not, even today, universally loved. In fact, I heard that he was even killed by a Christian.
>Until religion becomes a solely private matter I certainly wont be happy.
Bourbon helps. :)
>I think you're taking this a little bit too literally.
What does this mean? What did you want me to do, lie or make up an answer to your question that isn't true?
Do you want an answer to your question, or a story?
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Mischief managed, thank goodness!
At least sometimes they do.
> "Hey, Harry Potter/A Game of Thrones/Northern Lights/American Psycho were written 20+ years ago! I shouldn't have to pay 11.99 for copies! They should be 3.99 at most they're so old! Only new stuff should be expensive!"
Ummm....yes, actually. Would you pay $10,000 for a 1992 Ford Taurus, even if it still "runs well"? Would you pay $25 a The Dark Knight Blu-ray, even though it was one of the best movies of the 2000s and, arguably, the best movie of 2008? Would you pay $40 for A Link to the Past, a game considered the greatest of all time? No, you wouldn't. Despite those items still holding up and being great, you would not pay that expensive price for them, precisely because they were old.
There's such a thing as depreciation, and the market determines that (go to any used game store and CoD4 will be $5-7, whereas a black label copy of, say, Marvel vs Capcom 2 will be like $50, due to rarity). They're keeping the price artificially high to make it seem like a "premium" product that's still "in demand". If that were truly the case and people were still gobbling this game up (I'm not saying the community isn't still there, I'm talking about new consumers. That's what 'demand' addresses), they would continuously be bragging about the sales and that would justify its price point. You wanna know why GTAV is still $60? Because millions of people are still buying the game, to this day, and some milestone achievement is announced every 6 months or so. That obviously isn't true for CoD4, despite how good the game is.
Oh, and btw, I really don't know what point you were trying to make mentioning any of those books, considering:
Harry Potter
A Game of Thrones
Northern Lights
American Psycho (This one appears to hold up, but apparently it's a rare book)
I intentionally sorted by new, because if I picked used, the price would literally be a penny for 3 of those books, and $0.74 for the last.
OMG GUYS I FOUND PROOF THAT HARRY POTTER EXISTS!
https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Sorcerers-Stone-Rowling/dp/059035342X
AND THE PLACE WHERE HE WENT TO THAT SCHOOL IS IN SCOTLAND.
HARRY POTTER IS REAL 100% CONFIRMED.
Hi u/ting4ling,
Kara here, OP's wife, (As I said to another redditor, I'm basically the PR person for our biz as my husband tbh isn't the best typist or as patient with giving thoughtful replies).
First off, glad you think they're cool and glad you love books. The awesome thing is that we never ever ever ever would cut a limited edition or rare irreplaceable edition, (couldn't afford one anyway).
As you know, e-books abound! We buy real, paper books which makes the publisher print a new book to replace it to sell to a reader. It would be a tragedy if print went out. It's sad to see bookstores closing. I've provided here a handy-dandy list of ways to get access to J.K. Rowling's awesome work, and it would be mostly the same access for most of the books we cut for our business:
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The above listings are just on Amazon, of course there's:
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Let's all go forth and buy real books for whatever reason, seriously, we need to support print.
edit: formatting