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[green_queen]

They need to fire whoever does the illustrations. The American ones are so much prettier these days it hurts.

Green Queen

Comments

[continoushell.livejournal.com]

sweetness!!

i have to say, although im not a huge fan of the above cover(the green & blue is yuck!!), i generally prefer the uk editions(the GOF and especially OOTP are pure love )

the uk HBP adult cover is amazing though!!

they removed the text i think because it was fairly spoilery(i wont post here my thoughts, due to lack of an lj-cut)

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I liked the first three British ones better, the fourth one pretty much even, but I like the American OotP better than the UK and now there's no competition. This one is creepy and stupid-looking, and American one is pretty and spooky.

Do you have the version with the text?! Could I please have it?

[malsirien.livejournal.com]

I find myself becoming excited about reading it. I forget what happened in the last one though.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Read it again! It's only 800 odd pages :D

[malsirien.livejournal.com]

After exams...and after the 5 or so books i'm in the middle of. I really need to learn to read one book at a time.

[carencey77.livejournal.com]

So...Harry will be thumbwrestling in this one???

It's about time to start my pre Half-Blood-Prince series reread though, as I expect to be short on reading time between now and July.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

LMAO!!! Priceless.

Yeah, I'm already on book 4. I got a bit ahead of myself.

[truffle-shuffle.livejournal.com]

I wonder what's with the boat...I wonder what's with the arm wrestling...I wonder what the back of the American version looks like.

I was told that at my bookstore, they lock up the books when the shipment comes in so that none of the employees can sneak a peek. Which is exactly what I had planned on doing. Dammit.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Ooh, you dirty cheat XD I love it.

Yeah, I wonder what's with all that too, but mostly I wonder why the illustrator's gone downhill.

[missmomoko.livejournal.com]

Yeugh! this is horribly ugly. My favourite UK editions have been the third and fourth one by far.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I'm really very fond of the second British one. And the first three American ones are just plain ugly. But this one I DEFINITELY like the US one better.

[http://users.livejournal.com/bliss_/]

Thanks!! :)

I am currently re-reading Book 5 in preparation! LOL

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

You're jumping the gun a bit, like I did. Now I'm trying to pace myself so I'll finish OotP just before HBP is released.

[http://users.livejournal.com/bliss_/]

LOL I was so sad when I finished Pheonix that I didn't even think about it for a long long time...I seriously remember very little. So I am really enjoying the re-read! LOL

But you have a great plan going with the timing!! Hrm...will have to ponder that! :)

[encyclopedicace.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I hate the covers of the British/Australian books. I prefer the adult covers, well, overall, I prefer the American ones. Man, why can't they all be the same?

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the adult covers are *gorgeous*. I'm getting the set once they're all out. I like the covers of the first few alright but this one's butt ugly.

[patsie.livejournal.com]

I wonder who the two hands are.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Mmm, me too. And does the back one look old? And is it going to be as badly described as it is badly drawn?

Okay, scratch that. JKR is a genius, she won't let me down.

[pinkegogirl.livejournal.com]

thats a bit of a letdown. the international ones are so much nicer. *pouts*

the front cover is awful. harry looks about a zillion years old.

xxx

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. Ugly.

[seren-mahtori.livejournal.com]

The arm wrestling hands and Harry and Dumbledore's hands look all the same...meaning...it might be Harry and Dumbledore.

I have to agree...that art isn't so...alluring. And I am not particularly fond of the artwork for the American covers of the first three books. I actually find it rather annoying that Harry has to be flying on every cover...I feel like (sarcastically)"Whoo...he can fly...hooray...let's throw him a party. Hey he's flying again...holding a bird's butt...and hmm...there we are again...clutching a bigger birdie...alrighty."

And just so you know...being new to the magical world of JKR...I don't understand all the abbreviations yet...so I was slightly confused till someone said Pheonix...then I remembered the book...Order of the Pheonix. *duh me* All truly awesome stories are abbreviated though aren't they? Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter...hmm. Sorry...rambling.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the first three are ugly but since the I think the US ones have become better than the UK ones.

The abbreviations are just to make it easier to type.