So, I'm finishing up Sorcerer's Stone, hopefully I'll be done by Friday so that I can read Chamber of Secrets over the weekend...
One thing I think about when I read these books is how they compare to the movies. It's not really a matter of how bad/good the movies are... I try to separate the two as different things, which helps me appreciates the movies more. However for some reasons when I read the books I expect things to happen that actually didn't happen in the book, just in the movie. Some thing I noted earlier in the book when the Dursley's bring Harry to the zoo because Ms. Figg couldn't watch him on Dudley's birthday. In the book Harry talks to the snake in the reptile house while the Dursley's were wandering around Dudley and his friend come over and the glass vanishes and the snake gets out, then he kind of nips a Dudley and goes away. Dudley freaks out of course like he does in the movie. However in the movie, Dudley falls in to the window after the glass vanishes and when he tries to get out the glass is back...
One thing I absolutely LOVE in Socerer's Stone is the scene with the centaurs... In the movie Malfoy and Harry come across Voldemort/Quierrl in the Forbidden Forest drinking unicorn blood. Volde-quierrl slithers towards Harry and all of a sudden this centaur comes galloping through the clearing and saves Harry and talks to him. I like the book better for this scene because when Firenze saves Harry he puts him on his back and the gallop off to the other centaurs. There Harry meets Bane and Bane's ideas are very tradition where as Firenze is very unorthodox. Bane thinks that Firenze should have left Harry to Voldemort, to die. I love the centaurs because they're into astrology and following the stars. They seem to know everyone's fate. "Mars is bright tonight," they tell Hagrid... I'm going to be a total nerd and say that Mars being bright must have something to do with war because Mars was the god of war. Mars was bright because it was close. Therefore war is close eh. haha. I really do wish they had kept Bane in at least. He always left me perplexed.
All I've got to do now is Go Through the Trapdoor to visit The Man with Two Faces and then I'm finished.
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6/6 entries for 9/4/09--good job!
ReplyDeleteFantastic and frenzied readings! One of my goals is to get the British version of HP and read the series through.
I'm with you--I heart, heart, heart the public library system. It's so sweet when that automated voice leaves a message on my machine that I have ONE item being held at this time.
Great choices! Other nonfictions with rough family situations is Bastard Out of Carolina and Angela's Ashes.