Potterheads Unite....

[drunkkenartist]

I never knew so many people in Panama City could read, but there I was with hundreds of folk standing in line at Books-A-Million last night at midnight waiting to get my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

I got it, read the first few pages, and fell asleep. No, its not boring, I had just been up for 22 hours.

I hadn't finished rereading The Half Blood Prince yet, wanted to finish it before starting book seven. Looks like its gonna take me all day to finish 6 before I can star seven tonight.

Who else is reading it? A great deal of fun getting it, standing in an all to appropriate lightning storm... I thought we were all going to end up with the trademark lightning scars on our foreheads!

The line wrapped around the entire perimeter of the inside of the store, then out and around to the back of the building. Yet it only took 25 minutes to process all of us.

If only the airports were this efficient!


Happy reading to you all!

 

[Mermaid]

Philippa is just coming home from a week's vacation with one of her friends, and she and her friend pulled an all-nighter. Like I thought Fyl would do any differently than she has for all the previous books. ;-)

All she'd tell me is that she never cried so hard. About what, she's left me hanging, until I get my hands on the book myself!!!

 

[Sheila]

FBB's copy came in the mail and he and FBB Jr., just returned from the movie. I assume they enjoyed it. I didn't ask.

 

[Smiling JOe]

I really don't understand the rush to go out and buy the book at midnight. I was talking to a kid this morning who talked his parents into going to B&N at midnight, last night, to buy the book. I asked if he finished reading it yet :funnsome kids do that, you know), and he told me that he was only on chapter three of book #6. He couldn't explain to me why he needed to purchase the book so immediately, since it would take him a while to finish reading the sixth book.

Call me crazy, but I just don't understand that. Now if he was going to read the new book this weekend, I could be convinced that it made sense.

 

[Miss Kitty]

So, who died?

 

[drunkkenartist]

I really don't understand the rush to go out and buy the book at midnight. I was talking to a kid this morning who talked his parents into going to B&N at midnight, last night, to buy the book. I asked if he finished reading it yet :funnsome kids do that, you know), and he told me that he was only on chapter three of book #6. He couldn't explain to me why he needed to purchase the book so immediately, since it would take him a while to finish reading the sixth book.

Call me crazy, but I just don't understand that. Now if he was going to read the new book this weekend, I could be convinced that it made sense.

Why do people flock to New York City to watch the ball drop at Midnight New Years Eve or stand out in the weather to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
Or to California for the Rosebowl Parade? To New Orleans for Mardi Gras?
Why do people travel to Spain for the running of the bulls?
Why bother going to sporting events when you could just as easily watch them on TV?

For the sheer experience of it all. The spectacle. The opportunity. That's the only reason I did it. To experience it. It was fun. I'm glad I did it, and got it out of my system. Now if I could just stay awake long enough, I might be able to read it, or at least some of it.

So, who died?

The dog dies in the end.

The butler did it.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Why do people flock to New York City to watch the ball drop at Midnight New Years Eve or stand out in the weather to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
Or to California for the Rosebowl Parade? To New Orleans for Mardi Gras?
Why do people travel to Spain for the running of the bulls?
Why bother going to sporting events when you could just as easily watch them on TV?

The only event listed above, which I could possibly understand is the running of the bulls. All the others are just as questionable as waiting to buy a book or CD immediately upon its release.

 

[Sheila]

So, who died?

I dunno. Want me to read the last 10 pages to find out?!?

 

[Miss Kitty]

I dunno. Want me to read the last 10 pages to find out?!?

Yep.

 

[Sheila]

Yep.

I'll get back to you on that. I'll pm you what I find out. I don't wish to be lynched.