No, Not Yet....But soon
You can't be a reader of books (and reviewer) and not read Harry Potter. Even if the majority of the books I read are romance, I still read Harry. But I haven't read Harry yet. Why? I need a whole loooooong weekend to read the book. I need to be able to read it without putting it down. Between my two jobs (down from three---stopped teaching pottery, just doing pottery) I 
never have a long weekend to read it except around labor day weekend. Granted I will be camping...but as I get up at the crack of dawn, I will have plenty of time to read.
I do know some people who read the whole thing ALOUD over a weekend. Wow.
Then the stories of the night Harry Potter came out are fascinating. The boxes had been sitting in our store for a couple of weeks with yellow caution tape wrapped around. Might as well been crime-scene tape as you weren't allowed to touch the boxes, much less open the box.
The Palo Alto version of our store was apparently a mess with traffic. If you have ever been to Palo Alto, you know how small the streets are. Even with the police and fire department helping, people decided it wasn't worth the effort and drove over to Kepler's to pay full-price for the book.
Yep, Kepler's had 3000 people pay full-price for the book. The great thing about Kepler's is people paid for the book ahead of time...sort of. Kepler's had people buy a Gringott which they exchanged for a Harry Potter book when the book came in. Because, of course, you weren't allowed to pre-sale the Harry Potter book. Keplers had 4 tables with people manning them, taking the Gringott, giving the book. And it took them until 1:40 in the morning to get the 3000 people in the line a book.
The next day I traveled to Wyoming and in the airport, every other person that was reading a book, was reading Harry Potter. Amazing...I even saw one girl finishing her Harry Potter. Either she was an amazingly fast reader or she had stayed up all night reading... more likely it was both scenarios, But by 3:00p the next day she had finished reading the last Harry Potter.
And the whole scene for me is filled with melancholy. The story is over. Maybe that's another reason I am delaying. I am not quite ready for it to be over. J.K. Rowling has been interviewed numerous times and has already said that she is writing 2 books right now, one for children and one for adults, but can they even come close to the phenomenon that is Harry Potter? And we still have the last two movies to look forward too. Like all good things that have come to pass, we all wait for the next one, not really recognizing how great it really was until its over.
never have a long weekend to read it except around labor day weekend. Granted I will be camping...but as I get up at the crack of dawn, I will have plenty of time to read.I do know some people who read the whole thing ALOUD over a weekend. Wow.
Then the stories of the night Harry Potter came out are fascinating. The boxes had been sitting in our store for a couple of weeks with yellow caution tape wrapped around. Might as well been crime-scene tape as you weren't allowed to touch the boxes, much less
The Palo Alto version of our store was apparently a mess with traffic. If you have ever been to Palo Alto, you know how small the streets are. Even with the police and fire department helping, people decided it wasn't worth the effort and drove over to Kepler's to pay full-price for the book.
Yep, Kepler's had 3000 people pay full-price for the book. The great thing about Kepler's is people paid for the book ahead of time...sort of. Kepler's had people buy a Gringott which they exchanged for a Harry Potter book when the book came in. Because, of course, you weren't allowed to pre-sale the Harry Potter book. Keplers had 4 tables with people manning them, taking the Gringott, giving the book. And it took them until 1:40 in the morning to get the 3000 people in the line a book.
The next day I traveled to Wyoming and in the airport, every other person that was reading a book, was reading Harry Potter. Amazing...I even saw one girl finishing her Harry Potter. Either she was an amazingly fast reader or she had stayed up all night reading... more likely it was both scenarios, But by 3:00p the next day she had finished reading the last Harry Potter.
And the whole scene for me is filled with melancholy. The story is over. Maybe that's another reason I am delaying. I am not quite ready for it to be over. J.K. Rowling has been interviewed numerous times and has already said that she is writing 2 books right now, one for children and one for adults, but can they even come close to the phenomenon that is Harry Potter? And we still have the last two movies to look forward too. Like all good things that have come to pass, we all wait for the next one, not really recognizing how great it really was until its over.
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