Wow Audio Book

I just watched "Memoirs of A Geisha" after listening to the unabridged audio book several times. Wow does the movie leave a lot out.

Did you prefer the book or the movie?

The movie had some beautiful scenery and gave a good idea about Sayuri's life, but I think the book was so much better!!

The book was much better. The characters were well established and were multi dimensional. When i read the book, i was in love with the chairman.
But in the film, the characters were flat and stereotyped. There were no dimensions to them. They were either good or bad. the screenplay writers apparently didn't think giving shades to their characters was important.

2006-03-31 15:24:22 by njyecats

The original version - www.worldofwarcraft.com MP3 download - www.cynicalbrit.com This is an unofficial audiobook version of the Lord of his Pack ...

I'll post the link, it has a few minor spoilers and I've put together some facts
1: Harry is waiting for Dumbledore at a resteraunt, he flirst with a waitress (I know cause in Entertainment Weekly it said in the first scene with Harry includes him flirting with a waitress. The review said that he meets Dumbledore in an interesting place)
2: The opening scene is a bridge explosion.
3: It followed the book very closely
I would say more but just read this review, I for one cannot wait for the new movie, it makes up for the movie being delayed

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

A test screening experience and review by Eric Scull



~~~~SPOILER WARNING!~~~~ The review below includes mild spoilers for the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Read at your own discretion, but consider yourself forewarned.





First, let me explain that what we saw was a pre-release test screening of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – the first one, apparently, which is always held in Chicago stemming back to the days of the first two films. There were, if I had to guess, I’d say 300 people who made it, and none of the people I talked to knew what we were going to see beforehand. All we had been told was that the movie was expected to be rated PG-13, no video or audio recording devices were in any way allowed (they confiscated our phones) and the purpose of the screening was to obtain feedback from the diverse audience prior to the film’s actual release. Rather standard, I’m sure.

While sitting in the theatre all we could do was speculate what the movie would be. We were completely unsure, until something happened that made me look twice. David Heyman entered the auditorium and started talking to an associate. Although I hadn’t met him in person before, I’d seen him in enough interviews that, once I saw him, my furthest hopes came to mind. Sure enough, the lights dimmed, and it was announced that we were going to be seeing a rough cut version, not fully completed but generally in tact, of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Onward to the movie.

We knew they had filmed a bridge collapse scene which in the book was mentioned during the first chapter, “The Other Minister.” This makes for a great opening sequence and, although we don’t meet the Muggle Prime Minister, we get to see the disaster happen from the Muggle perspective. Actually it’s from both Muggle and a wizarding perspective that we see what happens – a really cool trick which you can do with film. It’s pulled off quite nicely. Already I like the style and care that is put in to characterizing people in this world who we don’t even meet.

The Dursleys are not in this film, but that information was also already available. Instead, we find Harry waiting for Dumbledore, and I won’t say where except to say that they’ve constructed a scene which I think works well. The movie has already given a couple of seconds to reflect quickly on the horrors of Harry’s previous year, and we are ready as moviegoers to watch Harry pick up the journey and go further from there.

Harry and Dumbledore Side-Along Apparate (the special effect, which appeared to be completed, was perfect in matching the canon description of the act) to the village where Slughorn is staying, and one of my largest concerns for the movie was getting to see Jim Broadbent as Horace Slughorn. Don’t worry. Throughout the movie, I was continuously impressed with how they adapted the character to the film, and to say that he does reflect my Slughorn from the books satisfactorily, with a little extra, is true. The scene where they meet Slughorn is surprisingly close to the events of the book, as is most of this movie, actually. I was surprised and delighted to see Couch-Slughorn put to film.

The events of “Spinner’s End” take place also in the beginning of the film. We’ve received a promo picture of Alan Rickman’s Snape and Helen McCrory’s Narcissa doing the Unbreakable Vow, and that’s why - it’s in the movie. Alan Rickman looks good. They’ve tailored his Snape suit and he’s got nicer hair, the full main villain treatment I suspect. The scene is compellingly acted and doesn’t feel out of place with the many events of the start of the film.

And thus, the movie continues. With the initial story-setting behind them, although it didn’t feel rushed at all, we are taken to the Burrow. Here is where I’ll speed up the review.

A lot of the things people seemed to dislike about the fifth HP film, such as vast amounts of time passing in visually appealing yet otherwise disappointing montages, does not happen in this. The film maintains its director’s neat visuals, however. Right from the initial Burrow scene, it is clear that Mr. Yates has not lost his creative edge and rather moved on to do different and wonderful things with the camera.

The entire movie seems to keep its pace, and I think one of the things that has helped the filmmakers is a clear-cut

I KNOW! I'm so excited! And doubley dissapointed that we have to wait so long :(
My only worry is that this is written by Eric. I don't know if you're familiar with Mugglecast but Eric has some very strange opinions sometimes (IMO). Like he didn't like Deathly Hallows. I LOVED Deathly Hallows.
But yeh I just read it on Mugglenet. looks AWESOME!

2008-09-07 22:03:26 by JakesRosenblum

Price: $19.98

For me I learned he sensors your right to free speech, I was shocked to learn that even at his rallies all signs are taken up and HIS STAFF passes out the signs they want supporters to have.

I have learned that everything he does, he seems to regret. His position on the death penalty (is now moving to the right) his postion on gun control (he says one thing in one state another in another state) changes according to those he is addressing.

He is a pure propaganda politician. He always has an excuse.

In his book Audacity of Hope, he refers to JEWS as KIKES, which is extremely offensive, in the newly released audio tapes this reference was convieniently left out! I have learned that he is trying desperately to mop up his past with denial and dodging. I have many Jewish friends and when we got a hold of his first edition of this book and read it, we were like WOW, the hatred! I was offended, so were they.
Puma was started by a Democrat, we are all Clinton Democrats, education is the KEY! WE are getting larger daily, there are now over 47,000 of us vocally, many more just standing with us. I can't wait until the convention!

I think he has had a completely orchestrated campaign from the start,he has only 143 days in office, before he declared himself a candidate. He wants his rallies to look all neat and uniform...he's says what he thinks each person wants to hear,whether southern,yankee,blacks,mexicans..etc..he's played his campagn sort of like survivor...He doesn't get my vote..

2008-07-09 06:48:34 by 13%

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Includes, Avalon Winter Wonderland, Michael W. Smith
Christmas is all in the Heart, Yolanda Adams Have yourself a merry little
Christmas,Amy Grant Breath of Heaven(Mary's Song)

Yesterday, my mother received a fax at her business from a company called "The Official Yellow Pages". It said that if she didn't pay the $399 in 24 hours, interest would accrue.

I called the representative and told her that my mother had already payed for the Yellow Book through 2008. Then the representative says, "Oh, that's the Yellow Book, we are 'The Official Yellow Pages', ours is printed every year, and we have your mother on audio saying she agrees to the contract, it's already printing in June and all the templates are done so you can not back out now."

Wow what a load of BS. I'm pretty sure this is one of those scam yellow pages companies. They even have the same logo as the Yellow Book on the faxed invoice.

I was just wondering if anyone else has had any experience with something like this and how they dealt with it. My mother doesn't speak English very well, and she thought she was agreeing for advertisement in the official Yellow Book.

Can she just not pay?

It sounds like a scam to me. I did a search of their name to try and find a website, but nothing credible came up. Is this the first one she received? No legit company is going to demand payment for something within 24 hours. Most companies have a term of 30 days or something like that. You can always contacts the better business bureau in your state and ask if they have had any complaints of find out if there is a company registered under that name.

Also, you can call them back and ask them for their legal entity name (some companies operate under a name other than their legal name) and then do a search for the legal entity name to ensure legitimacy of the business.

However, overall it sounds like a scam to me.

2007-05-23 14:11:05 by Epik

The plan as of right now is to have the local computer repair store take my old gateway desktop and use some of it’s parts in a new atx gaming case to upgrade the ram and graphics card and all that good stuff!
I am not going to be doing any major gaming here the only game I play is WoW. Maybe in the future I might play other games but as of right now it’s just that and work for my college courses. I don’t want anything fancy but the guy told me it would cost me around 250-300 for labor and all. He said it probably wont even be 250. But roughly in that area. I was thinking he is probably charging me around 50 bucks for the labor IDK I know I can put one together myself but I need a little guidance. Maybe a idiots book for it or something lol. But here are the specs. Tell me what you think he tells me that I can use most of my component in it. I want a motherboard cpu combo and I will be needing a good graphics card nothing big but enough to run the game and id like it to look pretty good lol. So maybe I can save 50 bucks in labor by doing this myself. Can someone tell me what MB combo I can use with the components I have. Here are the specs I copy and pasted them from Everest Home Edition!

Motherboard
CPU Type Intel Celeron-S, 1400 MHz (14 x 100)
Motherboard Name Intel Fayetteville D815EFVU (3 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DIMM, Audio, Video)
Motherboard Chipset Intel Solano i815E
System Memory 512 MB (SDRAM)
BIOS Type AMI (09/19/01)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Display
Video Adapter Intel(R) 82815 Graphics Controller (Microsoft Corporation) (32 MB)
3D Accelerator Intel i752

Storage
IDE Controller Intel(r) 82801BA Bus Master IDE Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive WDC WD200EB-11CPF0 (18 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive LITE-ON LTR-24102B (24x/10x/40x CD-RW)

with the list you've supplied you have all you need

building a computer is quite simple it is just like a jigsaw

but if you don't know what you are doing then id say get a friend that does

2008-09-29 23:47:27 by bigdaddy6298