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J.K. Rowling helps out Armenia - HyeClub Forum
Guys (and girls), I dont know if you all like Harry Potter but heres some interesting news.
Read the last paragraph most importantly.
J.K.
Rowling is back.
Harry Potter's adventures ended in 2007 with Deathly Hallows, the seventh book in the blockbuster series, but The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a book of five fairy tales written and illustrated by Rowling, goes on sale Thursday.
First printing: 3.5 million copies.
(Hallows' first printing was 12 million.)
Like the Potter books, review copies aren't available to critics, and the contents haven't been leaked on the Internet.
But Rowling's star power and healthy sales of young-adult books, including Stephenie Meyer's immensely popular Twilight series, are strong indicators that Beedle will be a best seller.
And then there's the fact that Beedle has a direct link to the boy wizard's adventures: Beedle is the book that Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore bequeaths to Harry's friend Hermione Granger in Deathly Hallows.
Advance sales of the $12.99 edition, which retailers including Borders, Barnes & Noble and Amazon are offering at a deep discount, are brisk on the three booksellers' websites.
Amazon also is publishing 100,000 copies of a $100 collector's edition.
Amazon's Daphne Durham is not ready to predict that Beedle will be the biggest book of the holiday season, but she expects sales to be strong.
The stories in Beedle hold clues that help Harry destroy his mortal enemy Lord Voldemort.
They are described as fables that wizard parents tell their children.
Only one Beedle story "The Tale of the Three Brothers" is recounted in Deathly Hallows.
It and the other four are in Rowling's new book: "The Fountain of Fair Fortune," "The Warlock's Hairy Heart," "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot" and "Rabbitty Babbitty and Her Cackling Stump."
"They feel like folk tales or fairy tales that have been around forever," says Arthur Levine of Scholastic, Rowling's U.S.
Publisher. "They're as good as any Grimm tale that you might have read in your own childhood.
But that's just Rowling's incredible skill."
Last year Rowling produced seven illustrated, hand-written copies of Beedle.
She gave six to close friends and one to The Children's High Level Group (CHLG), a charity she helped found in 2005.
Amazon bought it at auction for $4 million.
CHLG, needing more money for its work, is publishing Beedle in collaboration with Scholastic, Bloomsbury, Rowling's U.K.
Publisher, and Amazon.
The book will be published in 38 languages.
Net proceeds will help institutionalized children in European countries including Romania, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Moldova and Armenia.
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That is good news Saco.
I will definitely pick up a copy.
I like Harry Potter but my wife loves it and she is the book reader in the family.
I will pass the word around.
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I like Harry Potter, I have the whole series.
She is a nice person, its nice to see she is giving to people who are underprivileged.
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Quote: : I like Harry Potter, I have the whole series.
She is a nice person, its nice to see she is giving to people who are underprivileged.
I have the entire collection from 1 to 7 as well, loved everyone of them.
As I understand it she frequently does things for charity, it is indeed very sweet of her
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Quote: : Xaramillo I have the entire collection from 1 to 7 as well, loved everyone of them.
As I understand it she frequently does things for charity, it is indeed very sweet of her Pedro, did you know you can get these in Gaelic?
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I saw in the front of Order of the Phoenix I think, sadly its very hard to get books in Gaelic here in South Africa, my best friend who is Irish practically had to employ a flash light to search for a good Gaelic to English dictionary (Collins Gaelic-English)
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Damn, I think the only person that doesn't have the entire collection is me, lol.
I have to read seven, haven't read it yet, but I have a great edition of the sixth book and I read it when I can to prepare myself for seven, I want to make it interesting and a great experience.
Haha, anyways, glad to know I'm not the only one here that likes HP.
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Quote: : I will definitely pick up a copy.
I like Harry Potter but my wife loves it and she is the book reader in the family.
I will pass the word around.
Good. Great news.
All of you do your bit because the British Labour Party could always use another million pound donation from her.
Right now it needs all the money it can get to pay the PR agencies it needs to rewrite the part it has played in the destruction of the British economy, the destruction of British democracy and civil liberty, and the part it has played in the destruction of Iraq (leading to the virtual extermination of the Armenian community there, btw).
Yes, she is such a nice person .
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Quote: : Xaramillo I saw in the front of Order of the Phoenix I think, sadly its very hard to get books in Gaelic here in South Africa, my best friend who is Irish practically had to employ a flash light to search for a good Gaelic to English dictionary (Collins Gaelic-English) Get online with either Borders or Waterstones, they'll deliver overseas or of course, Amazon.
I've seen paperback copies of Harry Potter and even Latin copies, probably for mediums to read at seances.
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I would love to see mediums dueling each other with expelliarmus.
It reminds of a Star Wars thing that happened where a group calling themselves
the Legion of the Sith decided to duel each other with fluorescent lights, this bright idea landed them in hospital.
Bell I wasn't aware of that, I never even knew she supported the BNP, can you point me to an article?
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From the second book:
"My dear boy," said Lockhart, straightening up and frowning at Harry.
"Do use your common sense.
My books wouldn't have sold half as well if people didn't think I'd done all those things.
No one wants to read about some ugly old Armenian warlock, even if he did save a village from werewolves.
He'd look dreadful on the front cover.
No dress sense at all.
And the witch who banished the Bandon Banshee had a harelip.
I mean, come on -"
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I just noticed that part, I haven't read the second one in ages,
I just checked it and its there allright, now I feel bad
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Quote: : Xaramillo I would love to see mediums dueling each other with expelliarmus.
It reminds of a Star Wars thing that happened where a group calling themselves
the Legion of the Sith decided to duel each other with fluorescent lights, this bright idea landed them in hospital.
Bell I wasn't aware of that, I never even knew she supported the BNP, can you point me to an article?
BNP? That would be forgivable.
They are harmeless.
I'm talking about the Labour Party - that is not forgivable.
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*sound of hand slapping against forehead
Meant to type Labour party, sorry bro/girl (dunno whether you're a dude or a chick, don't wanna call you dude if you'r a girl and vice versa).
I know the BNP is harmless, insidious in my oppinnion, but never the less harmless.
Do you have an article about it bro/chick?
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Quote: : Xaramillo
Bell I wasn't aware of that, I never even knew she supported the BNP, can you point me to an article?
Not the BNP, but the Labour Party, currently in power for now.
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