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Natty

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  1. Happy Birthday. Hope you have a fab day.

  2. Echo

    Happy birthday! :)

  3. Kell

    Happy birthday wherever you are. :)

  4. Mia

    Happy Birthday! :balloons:

  5. Happy birthday :D Hope you have a fabulous day :D:D

  6. Aw no I thought that was kinda sweet tbh. It was nice to see a male protrayed with some "old fashioned" values - I mean he is old but he could have quite easily adapted with the time. CAMP EDWARD! I don't like the character of Jacob at all. He bothers me a lot.
  7. I love Tonks and Lupin. I'm actually quite surprised at how much I had forgotten happened tbh. Just finished re-reading them and feel a little void but happy because I got a lot more out of them. When I read them before I don't think I took everything in because of how fast I was turning the pages haha x
  8. Harry has undergone a lot throughout his life as Chrissy rightly points out. However, he is given A LOT of privelleges once he goes to Hogwarts. And, he only got into half of the situations pointed out by Chrissy because he was a nosey little so-and-so. I can't help but resent that Dumbledore's Favourite thing. In my eyes, people like Ron and Hermionie are the true heroes of the novels because they never had to put themselves in those situations. Harry was always going to be famous and was always going to have to be a fighter. Hermionie and Ron choose to be because he's their friend. I'm not so sure I think Harry actually sees it like that though. I'm reading Order of the Phoenix now and he's having right hissy fits because he isn't a bloody prefect. Get over yourself Potter!!! x
  9. I think you've missed the point somewhat. I don't think Poe is a scary writer, nor do I think Stevenson is and I credit this to the fact that we aren't scared of things which people living a couple hundred years ago were. I think if you read Jekyll and Hyde with the expectations of a twenty first century reader you'll get barely anything from it. The ending for one is pretty poor when you level it with other science type novels. However, when you put it into context it's frightful and controversial and a fantastic little read. This goes for many classics, very few in my opinion manage to succeed as great novels in their time, and then as great novels in modern time without allowing for context. It's as Ben Mines says, "What's wrong with Treasure Island? If you allow that it's an adventure book for Victorian schoolboys, it's perfectly readable." Same goes here. x
  10. I used to live in Nottingham and loved the Oxfam store in West Bridgford. I was also a bit of a fan for the Waterstones as it was huuu-ge. Now I'm back in Grimsby and tbh, there's only a teeny tiny Waterstones so I tend to order online x
  11. Tbh I agree with him. I think Meyer is a very poor writer, Rowling is a very good writer. However, Meyer's story is so captivating and enjoyable that it doesn't matter how well she writes. I'm not so sure the same would stand for Rowling, who IMHO tries to make the world of Potter seem new and exciting - but in actual fact has just made history and social-type-things magical and real. All that aside, both have negatives and positives and I'm not so sure I could choose. Maybe Harry Potter because it encompasses a whole range of human emotion whereas the Twilight saga just makes me feel all loved up
  12. I'm re-reading the books now, completely whisked away by them tbh (today was my day off from work and apart from one appointment I had a completely free day - I read the last 50 pages of Prisoner of Azkaban and the entire of Goblet of Fire). But Harry really is annoying. I can see Draco's point of view - I mean Harry gets away with everything. I'd have a strong dislike to him too if I were at Hogwarts! x
  13. Haha On another note I got a really nice email from Keith Gray the other day. Reading this prompted me to email him about when he read at out school and such like. He's a super nice chappy. x
  14. Another of my favourite books, although I always forget about it... I agree with BookJumper that the style isn't all there but when you take into context of the novel it doesn't matter. I studied it when I was at uni and ended up having a custom essay title so I could write about it. I've never read another novel which says so much without saying anything at all. The possibilities of who Mr. Hyde is and the controversial issues it then points to in what, 1886? Unfortunately, we take a lot of that undertoned writing for granted nowadays because we're freely allowed to write and speak about anything.
  15. Agreed. It is a very good, satirical novel. I love Dickens. My other fave is Great Expectations.
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