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No-one in the area seems to be doing midnight releases .

Ah well, It's still only 35 hours or so until 9am on Saturday.

Anyone have any last minute theories? I've guessed that Dumbledore's looks of triumph in GoF will be explained.

Lord_Morningstar wrote:

I've guessed that Dumbledore's looks of triumph in GoF will be explained.

Ditto. I was wondering about those.

I think the brothers Creevy will play an important role. Maybe they are just more random characters, but I still believe that they're more than just other students.

Here's the UK blurb. Beware of slight spoilers (it tells you how the book starts, but very little else).

http://www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter/c ... 20Released

Dear Peeg,

I think the audiobook reader does a good job -- and he doesn't sound so different from the movies (a pleasant surprise considering he started before the first one came out. )

I didn't have anything so distinctively aural in my head that his reading spoiled it, and most audio books make me appreciate a work even more.
(Current favorite: the author-reading of A Secret History )

But, I also spend so much time reading professionally that I have a hard time reading for leisure (even though I love to) -- some days my brain refuses to take in anything further via my eyes.

-Kushana

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Do you mean The Secret History by Donna Tartt? I love that book!!
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I got my copy reserved today. Now to decide whether to brave the masses at midnight or wait until Saturday morning.

I should probably experience a midnight release once I suppose. Plus my bookstore is doing something handy. At 6pm they are handing out numbered bracelets to determine where you'll be in line to get your book. That way, you don't have to hang out in line forever. I may go at 6pm and see how it will work.

I doubt i'll have to contend with the 'masses', as you guys put it. I'm getting mine early in the morning from a discount store, not a proper bookshop....it's the real copy at and a lower price, but all the other hardcore fans will be in the city's bookstore's so i'll have the store pretty much to myself

Kushana, well, like i said, it's a personal thing.....i guess if i read books as a profession i might get sick of em too, but i still don't think i'd be able to stand audios. I'm too much into the imagining my own thing and my own way of how the characters say things. Which is probably why i hate the movies so much, come to think of it. Is that selfish of me?

Well, I tried to reserve a copy a week ago at a major bookstore in town, but they were no longer deigning to accept reservations. I could put my name on a waiting list and "might" receive a copy if I showed up at midnight Friday.

So I'll go over to Target at 8 on Saturday, stroll in, pay $16.96, and stroll out with the book. No reservations, no party, no ceremony, but I'll have it.

The bookstores might find it profitable to be a bit more accommodating, considering that they will doubtless have enormous heaps of the books just like Target.

Only theirs might not all get sold, given that they're sending customers away.

It's tonight!!!!!!!!1111



*is hyped up*

Our library has our 25 copies all prepared and ready to fill reserves tomorrow. (The processors were required to wear blindfolds, I swear! ) But for some reason they all said "On Shelf" in the catalog this morning. Luckily I noticed or we might have been arrested - or trampled to death by eager fans.

And the sun rises on July 16...

Two and a half hours until I gett he book in my hands.

Sun rises there, maybe...

7½ hours until te midnight release over here.

Nine hours and thirty-two minutes to go.

Have I mentioned how much I *love* the West Coast? Especially Pacific Standard Time?

Well, the New Zealanders now have their hot (or seeing it's winter in the southern hemisphere at the moment, more likely cold) little hands on HBP. In one and a half hours, us Australian east coasters will too.

Today, JKR is expected to make 50 million pounds.

1 hour now, LordM. And aren't we going to have fun rubbing it in.......

peeg wrote:

1 hour now, LordM. And aren't we going to have fun rubbing it in.......

Not as much as we could, though; I believe that it's only one or two hours until midnight in the UK.

Lord_Morningstar wrote:

Today, JKR is expected to make 50 million pounds.

*determinedly ignores all efforts to rub in the fact that it is only 3:36 PM PST*

50 million pounds in one day? DUDE.

I have it.

I have it!

Just back from the shop, with my Gryffindor scarf and the book in a special HP paper bag.

I've promised myself I won't read more than 3 chapters tonight...

I've read three chapters.

This is everything OotP should have been.