Well?
Are we having fun yet? What chapter or page are you on now, are you loving it (I am) and why are you taking a break for the intertubes before you’ve finished??
My answers are yes, page 175 right now (the kids had theatre rehearsal so there has been driving and errands, really cuts into the reading time!) and hey, that’s a good question, back to the BOOK . . .
. . . future generations will come to the books without the hoopla that has defined them since 2000, when the publishers first set a midnight release for the fourth installment, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.”
. . .[but] a reader’s “experience is a special, one-on-one intimate experience whenever you have it.”
I really love weddings.
Alasandra has a link to JK Rowling reading the first chapter, fun!
Ours has been dispatched, but is coming from from the UK, so a few more days of waiting for us.
Well I found out today that my eldest read it online Tuesday. I was hoping he would stop by the store when he got off work and pick the book up for us. No such luck as he has already read it.
I visited the blog of Politicalypso (think I spelled it right, it’s in my blog-roll) to find out what happened. She picked her copy up at 12:01 has finished it and blogged about it. So I got to surprise eldest by already knowing stuff he thought he could surprise me with. That was FUN! I knew I would be the last one to finish the book at our house.
So I have listened to Chapter 1, and that’s it. It’ll probably be Tuesday before we get the book and then I’ll have to let Lord Epa read it first.
Just hit my next break, for food! — now on page 415. Favorite Daughter is ahead by about 60 pages and Young Son is in the 200s somewhere, wanting to do something else for a bit. Not me . . .
I think getting a UK version might be worth the wait, if you can avoid the “spoiler” coverage everywhere. (That wouldn’t work for us though, we’ve got folks phoning from all over the country to say where they are and how soon they want to talk about it . . .)
I do like the cover for the UK version better.
Oh my! - I finished shortly before midnight. As promised, for me it was indeed that “special, one-on-one intimate experience” and btw, see if you notice a couple of sentences well along in the book that are very unschoolish, about the problems and risks of learning only what you calculate will help you get ahead in the world.
So, we’re reading number two to youngest son while oldest son is well into number seven. I’m reading number four for myself. We just watched the movie of number five. I’ve recently read numbers six and five, in that order for some reason, for myself. And finally, as soon as I finish number four, I get to finish the series because it will be my turn at the new book. I’m stuck somewhere in J.K. Rowling’s universe of wizardry and wishing I weren’t a muggle.
To sam: Oh, me TOO!
For those who have finished, or who might like a few reassuring hints of what’s to come that don’t really “spoil” imo, here’s one sympathetic review.
Via COD — may His Noodliness bless him — comes “Finished Potter? JK Rowling Tells What Happens NEXT” (as in after the epilogue!)
Whoopee, there IS more to the story!