It seems like the sort of thing that happened back in the nineteenth century, when people were waiting for the latest installment of one of Dickens' novels.
I've read that people in the U.S. would wait at the docks to meet ships carrying the next chapter of The Hound of the Baskervilles. People love a serial.
If I were a child, nothing would make me less interested in reading a particular book than 1) waking me up for it, 2) turning a solitary act into an communal experience, and then 3) reading it to me. If I'd had any interest in them up to that point, that would almost certainly kill it. But I suppose the relentless hype would have done that, too, since it's certainly had that effect on me as an adult.
I've read that people in the U.S. would wait at the docks to meet ships carrying the next chapter of The Hound of the Baskervilles. People love a serial.
Not that different really from being at the comic shop when they open the boxes for the new orders, or getting in line for a Star Wars movie.
Not that different really from being at the comic shop when they open the boxes for the new orders, or getting in line for a Star Wars movie.
If you're doing the former, you're silly, because that's what pulls and a good relationship with your comic book shop are for, and if you're doing the latter...
Well, after TPM, you just have my extreme sympathy.
We will not discuss where I was for opening day of TPM, however.
I have the new Harry Potter! Woohoo! Borders was crazy. There were a lot of people dressed up as Hogwarts students and there was one Sirius Black. Prison tats included. Very cool.
I would've been bitter as a camper too, going "You're going to get through a CHAPTER, reading it outloud...in that amount of time I could get through like, FOUR reading it to myself! Damn you!"
Probably most of the campers will like it though.
(Me, i'm waiting until tomorrow to go get it)
Getting woken up for a special thing would not bother me--I remember being woken up at camp to see the sun rise, which was very cool. Being woken up early more than ONCE would have annoyed me, even as a tyke, though.
I shouldn't have pre-ordered it -- I could have walked up to B&N and bought one when I woke up, but here I am stuck waiting for the mail to arrive.
I shouldn't have pre-ordered it -- I could have walked up to B&N and bought one when I woke up, but here I am stuck waiting for the mail to arrive.
I was going to say, I just walked by an enormous stack of them when I was at Wal-Mart.
Well, I've gone and spoiled myself for
the identity of the HBP.
What I'm waiting for is
the significance of the whole HBP thing and what being the HBP means relative to the wizarding world.
My book is in DeKalb. It arrived at 5:18 this morning.
Why isn't it HERE!?!!??!!
This time - it was shipped UPS. (Last book came FedEx.)
