There’s one born every day
I have Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on hold through the library. Right now the hold list hovers around 1,440, and at #224, I’m pretty likely to get the book in a decent amount of time.
Of course, that has not stopped me from whipping out my credit card, not 10 minutes ago, and purchasing a copy from amazon that will be delivered on July 21.
Where did this fanaticism come from? I didn’t even start reading the series until years after everyone else; I’m stubborn and I held out up to Book #5 before capitulating and reading them all in one frenzied month.
I’m buying my copy now so that I can hole up in my apartment with some coffee and read through that damned thing, so I’ll be able to join the rest of the world instead of hiding from it. The simple fact is I’ll be afraid to talk to anyone, read any news online, or even look other people in the face until I know what happens in those last few pages. Learning how things end from people screaming in cars would just be too much.
I’m a sucker, but I don’t really care. In fact, maybe I will buy a big bag of suckers since I will need sugar and something to bite on as I rip through those 784 pages.
So is anyone else investing in a final book fix, or are you going to behave yourself and wait in the holds queue?
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Jessi
July 12, 2007I am number 212 on the hold list, and I am waiting…mostly because I have sooooo many other books I need to read in the mean time. Also, I don’t own the other 7, so it would be a sadly incomplete set.
Jessi
July 13, 2007Oops, I meant the other 6…
Melissa
July 13, 2007Dude, I am SO getting the book on July 21 through Amazon. When we got book 6, as we were standing in line, the kid ahead of us read the end and blurted out the ending to us. So this time, I am holing up, like yourself, and will not have contact with the outside world until it’s over. Sourpatch kids will be my poison.
Who’s your favorite character? Mine is a toss-up between Hermione and Tonks.
Yeah, we’re nerds.
Guybrarian
July 17, 2007I’m not even a Potterphile, and I will be getting that package on my porch midday Saturday. Why? To participate in the mass vibratory hum of a million readers reading together, one nation, one book? mm, maybe. Maybe more like being in at the death.