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Monday, July 23, 2007

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

No, I will NOT spoil anything for anyone! I'm not really reviewing it, just letting people know I have finished. I was lucky enough to have pre-ordered from the Borders Express in Chapel Hill Mall and had my book by 20 after midnight (the line at the Borders by Home Depot had close to 1000 people there-it would have been like 6am before I got the book-which is the time I had to be at work!). I took my mom's next door neighbor who is 16 and a big fan. It was fun. Hers was ordered at the big Borders but we got fed up with how slow they were moving and went back to where I got mine and they handed one right to her. All those poor suckers who waited forever when they could have gone 3 blocks away and picked it up off the shelf. I did make a lot of people jealous at the big Borders when I walked in with the book and started reading. I had people asking if they could touch it and see the last page. Weird! The book was intense. I couldn't put it down....especially the last 100 pages or so. I will not say a word about anything that happens in it. Although, can someone please read it soon so I can talk about it with you!! People at work asked about what happened and I told them, but they aren't completely familiar with the books and characters and hadn't read this one. I did spend two days at work reading it (I love slow weekend mornings--but I never would have done it with any other book) and was up until 3am last night finishing it off. No sleep was well worth it. I plan on reading it again to catch everything that I may have ended up skimming over trying to get to the dialog.
So I say to everyone, read, enjoy. You'll go through a range of emotions before the end. I am going to leave everyone with a quote. This is my new phrase (no it will not let you know anything about the book)....If you don't like this book, you are "nutty as squirrel poo" (sorry, I don't actually have the book here with me to cite the page, but this is the best phrase JK Rowling came up with!-I love it. Makes me laugh.) Rowling is an amazing author. These books will long outlive this generation. They are so well written and draw you in to a world you can only get to by imagination. Good job. I know I will read any other book she may write in the future. Well, that's all. Let me know what you think after you read it! But please, no comments that may spoil things for those who haven't made it through the book yet. Thank you!

1 Comments:

  • At 7:15 AM, Blogger delilah said…

    You'll be happy to know I finished the book yesterday afternoon. I totally agree with the intensity. Up until about half way through I think I could have walked away - only because it was very stressfull but after the half way mark I was hooked and I didn't put it down for the last 100 pages either. And you are so right about the emotions. I started to cry a little at one point - probably a part you wouldn't expect but it could be the hormones.

    Did you hear what the Plain Dealer did - they printed the obituaries. Man I would have been so mad if I had read them ahead of time.

    If you want to discuss it more...CALL ME.

     

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