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	<title>Comments on: J. K. Rowling:  Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince</title>
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		<title>By: jenny</title>
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		<dc:creator>jenny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i love the harry potter books and the half blood prince is my favorate but the movie was a waist it wasnt even based on the book all the seances were cut and what happend to dumboldores funeral it sucked the derector shuoldnt do the last one!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i love the harry potter books and the half blood prince is my favorate but the movie was a waist it wasnt even based on the book all the seances were cut and what happend to dumboldores funeral it sucked the derector shuoldnt do the last one!!</p>
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		<title>By: ubi</title>
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		<dc:creator>ubi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>type torrent somewhere!
a good way to attract people!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>type torrent somewhere!<br />
a good way to attract people!</p>
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		<title>By: Maria</title>
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		<dc:creator>Maria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ok, so book 6 was a semi waste of time. for me, the only worthwhile part was when hermione attempted to ask out ron, which he just frickin screws up! J.K. Rowling had the potential to make a great sub-plot out of ginny and harry, but she just seemed to rush it. it seemed, to me atleast, that in one paragraph, ginny was just ron&#039;s kid sister, then the next &quot; OMG! Ginny is so hot, i&#039;m so in love with her&quot; Am i the only one who thought that?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ok, so book 6 was a semi waste of time. for me, the only worthwhile part was when hermione attempted to ask out ron, which he just frickin screws up! J.K. Rowling had the potential to make a great sub-plot out of ginny and harry, but she just seemed to rush it. it seemed, to me atleast, that in one paragraph, ginny was just ron&#8217;s kid sister, then the next &#8221; OMG! Ginny is so hot, i&#8217;m so in love with her&#8221; Am i the only one who thought that?</p>
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		<title>By: Fed Up With Critics</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fed Up With Critics</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Can I say that The Half-Blood Prince was my favorite of the first six books?  No, I cannot, nor can I say that it was better than any of the other five, but the story needed a link between the fifth and the seventh, and The Half-Blood Prince did a fine job of that.

I believe that the problem that people have with this book is that it was not packed with the action that the first five were, and people are finding difficulty keeping their attention fixed on it.  In contrast, the purpose of the sixth book was to give information pertinent to the final installment.  Nearly every great literary series has the link and not all of them are of such a high quality as the works of JK Rowling.

And on a personal note, I am growing ill of visiting these open forums and finding statements that do not discuss the finer nuances of the work in question, but rather slam the work for what it is, and sometimes, as is in this case, for what it isn&#039;t and was never meant to be.

One final thought for those who want to criticize the labors of authors or other artists:  show some courage, produce your own work, and put it out there for the public eye, so that it may be subject to its own criticism.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can I say that The Half-Blood Prince was my favorite of the first six books?  No, I cannot, nor can I say that it was better than any of the other five, but the story needed a link between the fifth and the seventh, and The Half-Blood Prince did a fine job of that.</p>
<p>I believe that the problem that people have with this book is that it was not packed with the action that the first five were, and people are finding difficulty keeping their attention fixed on it.  In contrast, the purpose of the sixth book was to give information pertinent to the final installment.  Nearly every great literary series has the link and not all of them are of such a high quality as the works of JK Rowling.</p>
<p>And on a personal note, I am growing ill of visiting these open forums and finding statements that do not discuss the finer nuances of the work in question, but rather slam the work for what it is, and sometimes, as is in this case, for what it isn&#8217;t and was never meant to be.</p>
<p>One final thought for those who want to criticize the labors of authors or other artists:  show some courage, produce your own work, and put it out there for the public eye, so that it may be subject to its own criticism.</p>
<p>Thank you for taking the time to read this.</p>
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		<title>By: shellbelly</title>
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		<dc:creator>shellbelly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2006 03:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree. I love the Harry Potter series, but the last one, which I spent $26.00 or so on and waited for seemed like a waste after I started reading it. Actually, the whole book seemed like a fanfiction.com story : really slow with only a few eye catching moments. I can&#039;t wait for the 7th one just to see how it ends (or if it does) but the 6th was probably my least favorite out of the whole bunch. The movies suck too, most of the time barely basing off the book. But i am still a fan of the books in general, even if the 6th one sucked...kinda.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree. I love the Harry Potter series, but the last one, which I spent $26.00 or so on and waited for seemed like a waste after I started reading it. Actually, the whole book seemed like a <a href="http://fanfiction.com" title="http://fanfiction.com" target="_blank">fanfiction.com</a> story : really slow with only a few eye catching moments. I can&#8217;t wait for the 7th one just to see how it ends (or if it does) but the 6th was probably my least favorite out of the whole bunch. The movies suck too, most of the time barely basing off the book. But i am still a fan of the books in general, even if the 6th one sucked&#8230;kinda.</p>
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