Oh thank goodness. A couple friends of mine are letting me borrow their Book 7 to read as soon as they get it because they "can avoid the Internet better than [I] can."
'Lessons'
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 just got a notice from Amazon asking me to check that my order of HP7 has the correct shipping address. I don't recall them doing that before, do you?
Sumi, they sent me the same email. There must have been a lot of irate customers last time, who didn't get the book in time. They're promising guaranteed release date delivery, so there's more at stake, I suppose. With the free shipping and Amazon discount, that's an awesome deal if all goes according to the plan.
I got my copy of HBP from Amazon at 9:00 a.m. on the delivery date, but my friend who lived in the city (Chicago) didn't get hers until around 2:00 in the afternoon.
I still have issues processing that I'll be buying HP7 5 hours before anybody in the US. In Edinburgh.
Gris, if you read real fast, you might be able to finish before we even get ours (well, not me, because I have this damn original text fetish)
I got my copy of HBP from Amazon at 9:00 a.m. on the delivery date, but my friend who lived in the city (Chicago) didn't get hers until around 2:00 in the afternoon.
And I lived (at the time) a mile or less from you and got mine around 1pm that day.
That's right!
I'll have to put my name down to reserve #7 tonight, so I can pick it up while at work. I asked on Tuesday, and (so far) they have over 1200 reservations for the book just at my store alone. There's a fun promo banner there saying, "You've read 3,440 pages already. Only 784 to go."
Hee! That's cute.
I am rereading HP5 right now, I forgot how truly dark this one is. Like no glimmer of hope with relentless pounding of stupidity from above ( GWB, anyone) combined with basic adolescence angst. . I was talking with C , my co-worker's daughter, and she says 5 is her favorite. I think when I read it the first time my eyes were half closed - I think I missed a lot due to the pain. ( pain for the characters)