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OMG Harry Potter Harry Potter Harry Potter Harry Potter Harry Potter Harry Potter Harry Potter Harry Potter...............
I'm a little excited.
The general consensus seems to be to try to read it as fast as humanly possible, preferably to have finished by Saturday morning. Not I. I plan to read this book as slowly as I can, to savor everything. You don't wolf down filet mingon, you don't guzzle Chateu Latour. Don't mistake me, the book will be glued to my hand until I'm finished - but this is the *last* *new* *book* of Harry Potter. That's too special an experience to speed through, and it will *never* *happen* *again.* JRR Tolkien hated rereading books, and didn't think children should ever read his Lord of the Rings because they wouldn't comprehend it as well as they would if they read it for the first time as adults. "Nothing can compare to the bloom of fresh words on the page", he said (roughly). And while I don't take his stance on rereading, I constantly reread the books I love, I do agree with him that the first time is something special that can't be recaptured.
Occasionally I have this image in my head of legions upon legions of teenagers, immediately upon finishing the seventh book, suddenly snapping to attention as the slow and subtle brainwashing that has been woven into all seven books comes to maturation, and we all storm the White House or something and take over the world.
We'd probably just make people do stupid things like wear their underwear outside their robes.
In other news, I have two people to contact today - that guy from Apple Music who gives the free guitar lesson, and Amy from SMYRC, who left a message for me yesterday afternoon. So glad she called, I was starting to wonder.
I slept for a good solid eleven hours last night. I definitely needed it.
I'm a little excited.
The general consensus seems to be to try to read it as fast as humanly possible, preferably to have finished by Saturday morning. Not I. I plan to read this book as slowly as I can, to savor everything. You don't wolf down filet mingon, you don't guzzle Chateu Latour. Don't mistake me, the book will be glued to my hand until I'm finished - but this is the *last* *new* *book* of Harry Potter. That's too special an experience to speed through, and it will *never* *happen* *again.* JRR Tolkien hated rereading books, and didn't think children should ever read his Lord of the Rings because they wouldn't comprehend it as well as they would if they read it for the first time as adults. "Nothing can compare to the bloom of fresh words on the page", he said (roughly). And while I don't take his stance on rereading, I constantly reread the books I love, I do agree with him that the first time is something special that can't be recaptured.
Occasionally I have this image in my head of legions upon legions of teenagers, immediately upon finishing the seventh book, suddenly snapping to attention as the slow and subtle brainwashing that has been woven into all seven books comes to maturation, and we all storm the White House or something and take over the world.
We'd probably just make people do stupid things like wear their underwear outside their robes.
In other news, I have two people to contact today - that guy from Apple Music who gives the free guitar lesson, and Amy from SMYRC, who left a message for me yesterday afternoon. So glad she called, I was starting to wonder.
I slept for a good solid eleven hours last night. I definitely needed it.