It is just after midnight here. Thirty days from now, I will have Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in my hot little hands waiting and ready to be read
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My sister (his mother) says he's reading slowly, but he keeps plugging at it without prompting from her
When the first couple of these came out and were hitting bestseller lists left and right, I had coworkers with kids saying things like, "he hasn't touched his Nintendo in a week...he just goes to his room and reads! At which I ROTFL. And I had to make up a list of good kids' fantasy and hand it out to parents looking for recs for what they could get their kids until the next Potter book came out.
I enjoy the Potters myself, but I'd have to love them for their effect on the reading habits of kids, even if I didn't! And book releases as major media events! Whee! Gotta love it.
And book releases as major media events! Whee! Gotta love it.
Totally! It astounds all the odds. Movies may have midnight screenings, but HP has midnight book release parties! For the last one, we had some five hundred people crammed into the one bookstore, all waiting to purchase the book. They could have gotten it quicker at the local Wal-Mart, but there's just something about a gathering of fans that's wonderful and heady and just plain fun that you don't get anywhere else.
My plan is to go over to the local Sam's Club to get my copy sometime on Saturday and then read it until I'm finished while keeping far, far away from LJ. I just know that people will spoil just from tag cuts or mood icons alone, because people are prats that way. ;)
I know a lot of fans who plan to abandon LJ and the Internet as a whole for a week or more before the book comes out. Last time, there was a troll who joined lots of HP fandom communities on LJ and posted a scan of a page from HBP the night of the release. Whoever it was ruined the surprise of the book for a lot of people, unfortunately. I imagine the person got the book in the UK or on the east coast of the U.S. and thus had time to skim it and spoil hundreds if not thousands of people. Since the U.S. is at the tail end of the time zones, we get the book last. People in the UK might have already finished the book by the time I get it by midnight my time. Plus, since I live in Arizona and we don't do daylight savings, midnight comes last for us within the U.S
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My roommate, on the other hand, always reads the last page first of any book she reads.
I never, ever do that unless I have absolutely no interest in reading the book and just want to see whodunnit. :)
I seem to remember quiet a few OMG's and Nooooooooo's and what not with the last book, which is why I went and bought it because I knew I couldn't wait until I got it from the library without getting spoiled. I don't own any of the other books. I just borrowed them from the library years after the first book came out.
I keep thinking I need to reread HBP bfore the new book comes out though.
I keep thinking I need to reread HBP bfore the new book comes out though.
See, I have theory about this.
If you, like many, wish to refresh your memory of the series but do not have the time or inclination to do a giant reread of all six books, then there is a solution. The books parallel each other. Book two has many similarities to book six. Books three and five likewise are parallel. Book four--the middle, pivotal book--stands alone. Therefore, it stands to reason that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will have the most parallels and similarities to the first book.
So, you can reread HBP (and I think you would enjoy DH more if you did), but the best book to reread is the first one. It also has the advantage of being the shortest book in the series. *g*
For myself, I'm listening to all six books on audio CD as I drive. I'm up to a little more than halfway through GoF. Unfortunately, that leaves me approximately 54 hours of listening left to do in about four weeks. I don't drive enough for that!
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When the first couple of these came out and were hitting bestseller lists left and right, I had coworkers with kids saying things like, "he hasn't touched his Nintendo in a week...he just goes to his room and reads! At which I ROTFL. And I had to make up a list of good kids' fantasy and hand it out to parents looking for recs for what they could get their kids until the next Potter book came out.
I enjoy the Potters myself, but I'd have to love them for their effect on the reading habits of kids, even if I didn't! And book releases as major media events! Whee! Gotta love it.
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Totally! It astounds all the odds. Movies may have midnight screenings, but HP has midnight book release parties! For the last one, we had some five hundred people crammed into the one bookstore, all waiting to purchase the book. They could have gotten it quicker at the local Wal-Mart, but there's just something about a gathering of fans that's wonderful and heady and just plain fun that you don't get anywhere else.
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I never, ever do that unless I have absolutely no interest in reading the book and just want to see whodunnit. :)
I seem to remember quiet a few OMG's and Nooooooooo's and what not with the last book, which is why I went and bought it because I knew I couldn't wait until I got it from the library without getting spoiled. I don't own any of the other books. I just borrowed them from the library years after the first book came out.
I keep thinking I need to reread HBP bfore the new book comes out though.
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See, I have theory about this.
If you, like many, wish to refresh your memory of the series but do not have the time or inclination to do a giant reread of all six books, then there is a solution. The books parallel each other. Book two has many similarities to book six. Books three and five likewise are parallel. Book four--the middle, pivotal book--stands alone. Therefore, it stands to reason that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will have the most parallels and similarities to the first book.
So, you can reread HBP (and I think you would enjoy DH more if you did), but the best book to reread is the first one. It also has the advantage of being the shortest book in the series. *g*
For myself, I'm listening to all six books on audio CD as I drive. I'm up to a little more than halfway through GoF. Unfortunately, that leaves me approximately 54 hours of listening left to do in about four weeks. I don't drive enough for that!
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