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07-22-2007, 01:03 PM
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A Mere Boggart
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Yes, she's nothing like Tolkien or Pullman for lingering descriptions or that kind of poetic beauty - and there's too much "he said" and "she said". But you cannot fault her for pulling off a gripping plot! The characters are much more developed in this one anyway - Harry is much less of a 'pouty Potter'...much less SHOUTING...
I shall avoid telling you too much though 
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07-22-2007, 04:03 PM
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Odinic Wanderer
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heh I just went to see the latest movie and I was worshiping those subtitles. . .otherwise it would have been very confusing.
Even though the main names are the same as in English some of the lesser charachters (especially their surnames) are different in Danish, but the worst part is the curses and spells. . .only few are the same. Come to think of it LotR would have been worse had I not read them in English as most names and places has a Danish tranlation. . .only when having read the books in both Danish and English do you realise how brilliant the tranlations really are.
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07-24-2007, 01:07 PM
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A Mere Boggart
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Why did they translate the spell names? They're in a kind of cod-Latin so they may as well have left 'em?
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07-24-2007, 02:52 PM
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Odinic Wanderer
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Most of them are exactly the same, but the Cruciatus curse is called the Doloroso curse. I expect there are a few others that has been changed as well.
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07-24-2007, 03:28 PM
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Estelo dagnir, Melo ring
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Finishing the last Harry Potter book. A great read, I *had* to know, but...it's over...
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07-29-2007, 02:11 PM
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Hauntress of the Havens
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Plants. *groan*
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08-02-2007, 07:14 AM
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Shady She-Penguin
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I assign the latest HP book because it was both very rewarding&intriguing and at times dull and disappointing (the loose ends etc).
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