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It's Midnight: didja get your Harry Potter book?
Unbelievable. The seventh and last book in the series. What a run! What a story!
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i was at the syracuse nationals earlier tonight, on my way home stopped at a wegmans market, there was a crowd of about two dozen folks milling around the customer service desk. now i know why.
in less than a month i have seen folks lined up for i-phones and harry potter books. a bread line or a gas line maybe i can understand, but stuff that will be available any time? waiting all night? i don't get it. |
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Mine should be showing up tomorrow morning at my doorstep. Amazon, baby.
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In all, I see your point about waiting all night. But this one, the seventh, is particularly important not only because it's the last in the series, but also because a major main character, possibly Harry, will die.
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another billion dollars for JK Rowling...
it may be "formula" as the other writer stated... but in a way, if you really think about it, writing a novel is similar to writing a song in that Hits are extremely rare, and when they occur, every other writer looks at them and goes "i could write that".... but they never do. cause they really cant go into the mystic |
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One of my daughter's friends is flying back from London tomorrow with half a dozen copies, one of them is MINE.
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Whatever you guys who are reading the 7th book do, AVOID THE NEWS. I just saw "a hint" of the ending on CNN's homepage.
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Walked into Sam's club and picked up 2 for my kids about 30 minutes ago. $18.50 with no one around.
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It does one very good thing. It gets kids to read a book.
Hurrah for JK Rowling. She deserves every penny!
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I heard a news story on the radio about this and yes the books have gotten kids to read Harry potter. The issue is that they only read Harry Potter and "reading for enjoyment" everyday is still in decline.
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"Deathly Hallows" update
I'm halfway through. And by far this is the most intense HP of the series. Christ! You don't know whether to cry, drink and/or smoke yourself numb, or blow your brains out because of the storyline. I'm not joking. If you've followed the series at all, this last and final 7th book blows the first six completely away - and that's just in the first 350 pages.
As an aside, I've read online that parents in the U.S. have pre-scheduled psychiatric counselors for their kids because of HP-7's ending. The way things are so far with reading this seventh in a series book, I think I too may need a shrink. 
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Finished my copy this morning. Good read. Fun.
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Ya know, over on fark.com when they have a HP thread someone usually posts hot pix of Emma.... (hey, she's legal in England!)
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Funniest thing about that site is it has its own separate category for "Florida". Hilarious.
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