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Snape kills everyone.

That's what my collection of fanfic says, yes.

You read Dr Hawley Crippen's Trial Transcript didn't you?

Judge: I put it to you that some of your victims were already dead when you had sexual congress with them
Crippen: (Indignantly) They were still warm!!

/snicker

Ive not read any of them. But I might go and see the new film wait for the film to come out on DVD now that Hermione has grown some bewbs.....

Who need read when movies are gooder?

Interesting blurb I caught about the book sales

Are retailers their own worst enemy? Take books, for example. If there is one guaranteed best seller this summer it's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the series. But The Sacramento Bee reports "... few retailers will profit from its sales. Independent retailers feel undermined by mass marketers such as Wal-Mart and Target, which use popular titles as loss leaders, and by Amazon.com's consistent price cutting."

Amazon.com and Wal-Mart will sell Harry almost 50% off its suggested retail price of $34.99. Barnes & Noble's and Borders' price is 40% off.

"Everywhere you go there is huge, ridiculous discounting by the chains," Graham Marks, Children's Editor of Publishing News, told Reuters. "They are literally not going to make one penny out of the book. It is stupid – just throwing money away ... The world has gone mad."

"A lot of independent bookstores won't be selling Potter," Caroline Horn, Children's Editor at Bookseller, told Reuters. "They say it would be cheaper to buy it from a supermarket than the publisher."

Another example: Flat panel tv's have been one of the hottest sellers in electronic stores. So has that meant bigger profits for retailers? No. "Furious price-cutting has, during the past four months, compelled Circuit City to replace 3,400 sales clerks with lower-paid hires, pushed Tweeter Home Entertainment into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and forced CompUSA to close more than half its stores nationwide," reported the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "Not since prices for personal computers plunged in the early 1990s have so many retailers been hurt by a single product cycle, analysts say."

It makes a certain amount of sense if your business relies primarily on getting people into the store.

It's kind of a wash for small, non-chain bookstores, most likely. I imagine most of them will order a few copies for display.

Yep pre-ordered my copies (3, 'cause Bob forbid any of us have to share), we will be there to pick them up at midnight, and I'll read atleast 5 chapters before I go to sleep, one of which will be in the car ride home, I drove home when we bought Half Blood Prince so it's the husbands turn :D

Sadly enough I will read the last book as well. Since finishing Children of Hurin I am completely out of new books to read and I've seen none that caught my interest in Borders. Fucking Scooter Libby.

Brill said



I know I've mentioned it before but honestly, if you want to get your head stuck into a fecking outstanding series of books with a 'fantasy' (term used somewhat reluctantly) theme, check these ones out.

Makes Harry Potter look like a kids book. What? oh..they are? well why the feck is everyone so excited about them??

Get some Malazan Empire in your scone. you wont regret it.

Oh gawd, not again with the Faith Hill.

Oh dear bhodi, when will you learn...

You should know I'm smart enough to go to Morbidly Obese & Greasy for my undergarment needs.