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Titolo: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stoned

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Seen HP & the chamber of secrets
Thumb down!
:-(
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Seen HP & the chamber of secrets
The movie, you mean? Well, you ought to read the book instead. It's
way better then the first. And the third is normally considered the
best. Since the third movie is not coming out in Italy until
late-spring/summer 2004 I think you should be able to read the second
book and the third one as well in order to catch up with the storyline
in time for the movie. Then you'll see the movie as a complement of
the book and it could be better... or worse. :)
I am a book fan an I like the movies too. The good thing about those
movies is that they show things you have only read about. The bad
thing about those movies is that the things they show to you can be
totally different from what you were imagining. Then you can like them
or not for different reasons.
I suggest you give the book a try. If you love it, as I hope you will,
you'll maybe became hooked on HP and, you know, the others books will
come easy as a pie. If you will not like the book, well, then you will
probably do not like the others as well. But you can't be sure about
it, you could love 'em, hate 'em or just regard them with
insignificance. Who knows. :)
Sebastiano
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 Well, you ought to read the book instead. It's
I'm reading book I (Philosopher's stone), I quite like it.
Many words I don't know, though  :(
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Many words I don't know, though  :(
Well, it's normal. Try to avoid using the dicionary as much as you
can. There are a lot of words whose meaning you can guess just by the
context. Now, try to enjoy the book. Then you can read it again and
try to understand it thoroughly.
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 :-(
Left thumb or right?  ;-)
I have heard it said that one should never see the movie after reading the
book, as one will always be disappointed by the movie.
In my case, it has never been much of a problem as I am endowed with the
facility to forget the details of a book within days after reading it.
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Xakero
P.S. You seem to be progressing splendidly with your study of the English
language.

 Right through the very heart of it - New York, New York
Oh, no! Not again! You lucky b******!
Have a good time, and give my regards to Broadway!
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Xakero

Have a good time, and give my regards to Broadway!
Well, I will... one day. :)
I'll probably go to London, just a few days. I've never been there and
I'd like to see it. Given the chance I'd fly to NYC asap but I
wouldn't mind being stuck in California, y'know. But I can't go there
this summer, it's too expensive. Yes, London is expensive too but it's
closer. The flight is really cheap and I can stay just a few days.
Sebastiano
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 Yes, London is expensive
Just the other day, I read that in England beer costs six times as much as
in Germany, thanks to a heavy tax. Give the Eurocrats some time and they'll
"harmonise" the tax throughout the EU at that level.
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Xakero

"harmonise" the tax throughout the EU at that level.
Yo! Don't even say that! I'll kill for a keg! Let 'em try to tax the
sippin', yeah, and we'll do such a mess that the French Revolution
will pale by comparison!
Sebastiano/on the rocks
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 be sure that you'll love the movie, but - you know - since you didn't
I can only speak about the movies I've seen.
I was bitterly disappointed just because I liked the first episode,
while the second wasn't worth the price of DVD rental (euro 2,50).
It had the taste of recycled stuff,  almost the same story clumsly
retold. But they weren't even good at copying from themselves, IMHO.
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I can only speak about the movies I've seen.
Of course. I hope you'll love the books but I'm afraid you won't. I
hope I'm wrong, though.
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a basylisc, 
Yeah... basilisk, o'course. Thanks to that monster we discovered that
Harry is parseltongue. ;)
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