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[aadams73]

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/MTarchives/007173.php

<sigh> J.K. Rowling sure is one lucky duck. Meanwhile, I can't wait for my copy to arrive!

[Christine N.]

Me too, me too! We're having a marvelous discussion on it down in the Religious Forum, under Pagan.

Don't think it's weird, it's just a thread that got hijacked, and no one seems to care. LOL. It's the Pantheons thread.

[aadams73]

Thanks! I shall now go and join my kindred readers.

[ChunkyC]

I ordered my copy in February. My wife thinks I'm nuts.

[DreamWeaver]

My 74-year-old mother in the US prefers the British versions of Harry Potter, so I ordered it for her from Amazon.co.uk and gave her the receipt as her Mother's Day present.

They actually dropped the price last week, and sent me an email letting me know my bill would be lower than originally quoted. They mentioned that "both Muggles and wizards" will get the new price :).

Kris

[Perks]

I've never pre-ordered a book before this one. I feel like I'm waiting for a present. I love cultural phenomena. You can go on and on about the merits or relative lack of where Harry Potter is concerned, but millions of people can't be wrong. That's why I'm willing to submit that Elvis Presley must've been a talented cat. He didn't do anything for me, but there you go...

These people flavor the world... I love 'em. God bless the purveyors of the warm fuzzy and the cheap thrill!

[maestrowork]

but millions of people can't be wrong...

Well, millions voted for the wrong president. but I digress. ;)

[Perks]

Well, millions voted for the wrong president. but I digress. ;)

Ugh... true. Thanks for the buzzkill.

[KTC]

Please stop the Harry madness!

[zornhau]

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/MTarchives/007173.php

<sigh> J.K. Rowling sure is one lucky duck. Meanwhile, I can't wait for my copy to arrive!

Not lucky. It's earned. (Possibly unreliable) word on the street is that her early attempts got bounced because they weren't good enough. Instead if huffing, she got stuck in and improved her work.

I salute her prowess!

[aadams73]

Not lucky. It's earned. (

Yes, I realize that.

[A.REX]

Not lucky. It's earned.

I heard "Stolen". Any truth to the rumor about a little English grandma writing about "Henry Porter" first?

As far as the books go, I liked the first 2 but after that I feel like she was fishing for plot and reusing old scenarios. (Flame away) Maybe it's just me, but I think there's more talented authors out there who haven't had the success explosion that Rowlings has.

"Write a book about witchcraft, and they will come..."

[Christine N.]

LOL A. Rex. Heck, write a book with Wizard in the title and they will come. I picked up no less than four books about wizards and or mages last week. Two were older Tamora Pierce books, one was by Angie Sage and the other by Hilari Bell.

Wizards in school? Even better.

[tjwriter]

You can't talk about Harry Potter. The wait is killing me!!

I have enjoyed all of the books, though perhaps the 5th one did have dry parts.
There is something addicting about them to me, but to each his own.

[Roger J Carlson]

Well, millions voted for the wrong president. but I digress. ;)Clinton? (running and ducking for cover)

[Azure Skye]

I'm taking my niece to the midnight release party at my local bookstore. I have only small complaints about the books but I still find them addictive. I can't wait for the book to come out.:)

[Christine N.]

The release party at a B&N near me is having a whole HP night - with a little help from the local SCA chapter. Wizard's chess in the parking lot, people in frames to be the paintings at Hogwarts, the whole nine.

No, I'm not going.

[Perks]

As far as the books go, I liked the first 2 but after that I feel like she was fishing for plot and reusing old scenarios. (Flame away) Maybe it's just me, but I think there's more talented authors out there who haven't had the success explosion that Rowlings has.

"Write a book about witchcraft, and they will come..."

No flames here, although the plot is where she wins the most points with me. I think some novels are about the story and some are about the music of the words and some are wonderfully both.

I think with JK Rowling, it's all about the story. The manipulation of the language is pretty pedestrian, but the story is just a blast.

I love it that they have Harry Potter midnight madness and that there are children begging their parent to let them stay up late to get a BOOK. Not a movie or a video game. We never had anything comparable when I was a kid and my own children are a little too young to really get into yet, so I'm just enjoying it from the sidelines.

[A.REX]

Perks, good point about kids begging to get a book...

[Kallahan]

not going to preorder this one, but I'll probably swing by my B&N for the festivities.

Hey don't blast video games, I very literally learned to read from them. (Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior, gee I wonder where my fascination with fantasy came from?)

[Perks]

not going to preorder this one, but I'll probably swing by my B&N for the festivities.

Hey don't blast video games, I very literally learned to read from them. (Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior, gee I wonder where my fascination with fantasy came from?)

Oh, not at all!! I think they're fun and probably great for developing lots of things (my husband's got bionic eye/hand coordination from plaing video games.) It's just that it's so difficult to maintain vigilence against your children sitting in front of a box all day. Gotta mix it up. And many of them resist books when there is TV or gaming available all the time.