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Like millions of other people, I am reading the new Harry Potter book.
Wanna make something of it?
I'll return when I'm done.
I just bet Allah that I can finish the book by 8pm tonight.
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Like millions of other people, I am reading the new Harry Potter book.
Wanna make something of it?
I'll return when I'm done.
I just bet Allah that I can finish the book by 8pm tonight.
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Don't tell me anything about it! I don't even get to see a copy until my Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince double feature tomorrow!
Posted by: ScottC | July 16, 2005 04:26 PM
USPS delivered it at 130 PM. My son fininshed it at 645 PM.
Posted by: Chris | July 16, 2005 08:39 PM
USPS delivered it at 130 PM. My son fininshed it at 645 PM
Impossible....from 1:30 p.m.-6:45 pm. is 315 minutes...the book is 672 pages long. That would average out to less that 30 seconds per page to read.
Posted by: mr lawson | July 16, 2005 08:47 PM
We got our copy at 12:02 last night; and Anna and I are both reading it...I get it while she's sleeping. I'm about halfway through, and am thoroughly enjoying it.
I read that the number of books printed for this first release was 10.5 million.
That's a lot of books.
This is the 6th book in the series; there's going to be one more. Anna heard, though, that J.K. Rowling said she might go ahead and write an 8th book and donate all the proceeds to charity - does anyone else remembering hearing/reading that?
Posted by: Trish | July 16, 2005 10:42 PM
We ordered it from Amazon back on 12/27/04. I tracked it via UPS when they shipped it from Seattle on Thursday, thinking/hoping that perhaps it might get here on Friday since we're a mere 170 miles or so away. It arrived here early Friday morning, but it wasn't delivered to us until this afternoon via USPS. It was in a box marked in big letters, "Please do not deliver before July 16th" and "Please do not open before July 16th."
Damn service cooperation...
I'm letting my 19-yo daughter read it first and am (im)patiently waiting. She seems to be slowly "savoring" every word.
Posted by: cardeblu | July 16, 2005 11:35 PM
Yeah, I have to "timeshare" my copy with the better half. I'd nail it in a day, but she reads slowly. I'll read it in bed on the nights that she wants to sleep.
Posted by: Frank | July 17, 2005 01:12 AM
Read it. Unbelievably good.
Posted by: Alex Knapp | July 17, 2005 02:47 AM
Well, I just finished it. Damn.
It's going to be a very long wait until the next one comes out.
Posted by: Trish | July 17, 2005 09:12 AM
Picked it up yesterday. Waiting for my wife to finish is. So far she's moved it from the couch to the loveseat. I know once she starts she won't stop.
Posted by: Timmer | July 17, 2005 10:29 AM
Got my copy via USPS at 1:30 pm ... 11 y/o stepson arived from Oregon at 2:00 pm and 3 y/o twin grandsons arrived at 3:00 pm...
At midnight I got 85 pages into it before falling asleep.
argh
Posted by: Darleen | July 17, 2005 11:33 AM
Got it yesterday about noon, read it by 7. Good, not great, IMO. Certainly darker, but I feel the books have been getting less well structured, sort of like the author decided "Well, I decided 5 years ago that X Y and Z would happen, I foreshadowed them, now how the heck do I tie them together?" Either that or she's just held to the same amount of structure while she tripled the page count.
Your mileage may vary, in fact I hope it does. Certainly a good read, and I had to read it yesterday while my wife was out of town for the weekend. She doesn't share well... :)
Posted by: Dr_Mike | July 17, 2005 11:41 AM
Mine came at 2:20. I finished it at 5:50pm. 3.5 hours. RTFO.
I finished Book Five in 4.5 hours.
Posted by: Josh Cohen | July 18, 2005 07:28 AM