I remember when Book 5 came out, I was flying to Korea. The supershuttle was picking me up at 3AM, and I hadn't pre-ordered, so I didn't bother to go anywhere at midnight to get it. But the next day, on the first leg of my flight (at like, 7AM), the two kids next to me were reading it, and I was *so jealous*.
'Serenity'
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."
I think I remember that! Everywhere you went people were reading Harry Potter!
They were!! Luckily my very kind friend who I was visiting in Korea got it at the PX after I'd been there a few days, and let me read it before her.
I don't remember why I didn't pre-order #6, after the debacle with #5, but I got so darn impatient to read it that I ended up buying it in the airport! This time, I swear, I will not pay full price...
I don't remember which volume it was, but Hubby was reading a borrowed copy in a doctor's waiting room and fell asleep with the book in his lap. When he woke up the book was missing, and it was found in the possession of a kid hiding in a corner and reading and hoping he'd get away with grand theft literary.
That's great. Darn those books, inciting children to crime!
Bwah!!
::off to COMM::
SF/Fantasy geeks are such book-buying fools.
Ha! This is hi-larious: [link]
You know, now that I know that the regular edition does include a Tolkien map (like the one in the Silmarillion) I think I can be happy with the regular edition.