Good for McCarthy. It's an amazing book, if in no way a cheerful one.
I really need to set my Tivo for the Oprah episode where they talk about it, because I'm having a hard time imagining their responses. It's really not much of a redemptive story.
Take jobs as they come -- and we'll never be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get, we'll just get ourselves a little further.
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Consuela - Apr 16, 2007 6:16:46 pm PDT #2562 of 28175
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
sumi - Apr 16, 2007 6:21:30 pm PDT #2563 of 28175
Art Crawl!!!
So, that Oprah hasn't happened yet?
Consuela - Apr 16, 2007 6:26:59 pm PDT #2564 of 28175
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
You know, I don't know. Guess I should check.
Sparky1 - Apr 17, 2007 4:24:51 am PDT #2565 of 28175
Librarian Warlord
The problem with Amazon delivery, even if it happens on the 21st, is that it happens at 2 p.m. in the afternoon -- and I can go down to Target at 8 a.m., get a copy for the same price and start reading!
Aims - Apr 17, 2007 7:36:31 am PDT #2566 of 28175
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Yeah - I've cancelled my HP pre-order. Partly because won't be living here, but partly because when book 6 came out, I was in Meijer at 5am and there was the book. Had to wait til 2 to get mine. This time, I'll be in Michigan and not above camping out at Meijer for it.
Kathy A - Apr 17, 2007 7:41:55 am PDT #2567 of 28175
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
When HBP came out, USPS delivered my copy from Amazon at about 9:00 am. With Deathly Hallows, though, if I do get accepted into the MLS program I applied to (the damn letter is supposed to show up some time this week!), I'll be in Champaign for Library Boot Camp when the book comes out, so I'll have to wait to get it until afterwards (if I get it at the Borders/B&N in Champaign, I'll end up reading it instead of doing the schoolwork I have to, so I'll just wait).
sj - Apr 17, 2007 7:43:37 am PDT #2568 of 28175
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I pre-ordered from Barnes & Noble, so I'll probably just show up there early that day, get a latte and the book.
Jessica - Apr 17, 2007 7:44:48 am PDT #2569 of 28175
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I gave up pre-ordering after GoF came out when I realized that no bookstore on the planet was ever going to run out of copies of any HP book as long as they were in print.
sj - Apr 17, 2007 7:46:21 am PDT #2570 of 28175
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
This is true too, Jessica.
Steph L. - Apr 17, 2007 8:04:51 am PDT #2571 of 28175
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The problem with Amazon delivery, even if it happens on the 21st, is that it happens at 2 p.m. in the afternoon -- and I can go down to Target at 8 a.m., get a copy for the same price and start reading!
Or a bookstore that has an event the evening before, and starts selling the books at midnight.