I think I'll go the Barnes and Noble about five minutes from my house. They have hot chocolate and lots of things planned. There's a conference that weekend, so I'm torn, but I can always attend the conference on Saturday night and Sunday, after I've finished the book.
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Watching Battlestar Galactica! I don't have time for any of that wizardry silliness, I need to know what's going to happen to Adama.
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We've been listening to the Jim Dale CDs and have it timed so that we can put in the first CD of Half-blood Prince just as we finish the last CD of Order of the Phoenix.
Jim Dale is awesome!
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dkw's friend Sarah has a bookstore in Story City, IA. I will be there, dressed as Sirius Black.
--Enigmatic
Edit to add: Jim Dale is awesome. I've listened to the audiobooks for all of HP, because I used to have a horribly long commute.
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Re-reading HP:OOTP most likely. Hopefully HP:HBP won't have quite so much angsty-angry-Harry in it (not to say I wouldn't be angsty-angry too if I was Harry)
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I'll go to Barnes and Noble to pick it up at midnight ( pre-ordered long ago). I'm supposed to hike Mt. St. Helen's the next day, so Brian will probably stay home and read it.
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Wow Pix! You described him perfectly! Of course I also like "self-pity Harry" too. But don't get me wrong, I still love the books and movies!
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I should be somewhere in the process of moving my kids to South Carolina and probably musing on the many things that have changed since the last time I was at a Harry Potter release.
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quote:Originally posted by skillery: We've been listening to the Jim Dale CDs and have it timed so that we can put in the first CD of Half-blood Prince just as we finish the last CD of Order of the Phoenix.
Jim Dale is awesome!
I didn't think the CDs came out until months after the books. I could be wrong, though.
As for me, I've been making my way through the first five (I just finished the second one). I think my parents are going to send me out to Borders in the wee hours of the morning to pick up our copies.
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Oh, I'll be in line at my local discount bookstore waiting in queue along with my fellow addicts. Many of which I may have met in line the last midnight release. I will also be waiting for my British version copies from Amazon UK to be delivered.
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The Braille version is coming out just a few weeks after the book, too. They have been working around the clock to get it out earlier than the standard nine months later.
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I'm going with my friend to the Barnes and Noble release at midnight. =D And then read alllll through the night and go to a Cake, et al concert the next day.
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A bunch of my friends and I are going to Borders in costume and then heading to my place where we'll spend the night reading it together.
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I'll be working late friday night. I ordered my copy from amazon, so I'll get it in the mail sometime on sat.
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I'm working at the bookstore the following morning, so I'll have to make an early night of it. But I'll probably go pick up my copy at midnight anyway.
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Can't go to a midnight party because of the lack of a car. And I can't order it from Amazon.com because I go to therapy on Saturday mornings and might not be home when they attempt to deliver it (they won't leave it because I live in a condo :rolleyes").
I'm going to Borders tonight to buy some manga (Fruits Basket #10, yay!), so I'm going to pre-order it then. Yes, I will be making a special trip downtown on the morning of the 16th just to pick up the book. *grin* Ooo, maybe I'll see a movie or something downtown Friday night and crash at the hostel, so I don't have to spend two hours on public transportion Saturday morning just to pick up a book.
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I love Borders, but there isn't one here in town! My nieces and I are going to the midnight shindig at Barnes and Noble. I haven't decided if I will dress yet or not. I think they're planning to go in costume.
It's pretty clear to me from the timing who must be responsible for the attacks on London, you know?
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I'll be in Chicago with my son. We'll go to the Barnes and Noble at the U.of C., buy TWO copies (don't tell my husband),and stay up all night, reading and drinking coffee. Heaven!
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quote:It's pretty clear to me from the timing who must be responsible for the attacks on London, you know?
There's a fanfic where he does exactly that. (well, not in relation to a book being released, but yeah, he blows up a tube station). End of this chapter, continuing on into this one.
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I'll be wearing my Gryffindor robes ( ) and playing around Pearl Street Mall in Boulder. The Boulder Bookstore is having a fun party, but by midnight we'll end up at Barnes and Noble where we've preordered our copies. (I'd love to support a local bookstore over Barnes and Noble, but I am too poor to pass up 40% off the cover price. ) Then, I will read all night in hopes that I can finish it before my 2:00pm shift at work on Saturday.
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We'll be at the same books store Enigmatic will be at, an idependant bookstore run by our friends Sarah and Sara. I'll be Professor McGonagel and Bob will be Hagrid. I think I get to run the sorting hat. Posts: 9866 | Registered: Apr 2002
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quote:Originally posted by WheatPuppet: Watching Battlestar Galactica! I don't have time for any of that wizardry silliness, I need to know what's going to happen to Adama.
Lo stesso (Italian for "the same"). I also don't have a car, so going Saturday during the day works very well for me - I'll still be done with the book before a lot of my friends, and I'll get to see SciFi Friday in its entirety.
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I'm gonna go to sleep early and either pick up a copy at 7 am to get at Sam's Club. That's what I did last time--they had to cut open the pallate for me.
I've just finished reading the whole series again. Somehow, I like OotP a lot better than I did the first time. Maybe because right now I'm dealing with an angst-ridden 15-year old brother and it seems more true to life... And GoF, which was my 2nd favorite in the series, dropped two places in this reading--somehow it got slow and ponderous since 2000 (go figure--I remember reading it for the first time with baited breath). My revised order: PoA beat OotP by its narrowest margin yet (PoA has always been my favorite), followed by SS, GoF, and CoS.
Also, I'm coming up with a personal list of how to get the most out of my first reading of HBP. So far I have:
--don't worry about food (like I ever have on HP Day) --remember to take a good look at the Mary Grand Pre' cover art (because it's cool and is chock full of visual details that come to play in the book) --try to identify the Dark Arts teacher before they are formally introduced as such (this has *always* happened in the past books) --take a guess as to who of the known 5th years will be prefects (there's Ginny, Colin, and Luna to pick from) --keep an eye out for Mark Evans.
More will come to me the closer I get.
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I'm going to Borders then to Blacwolve's house, the next morning I have a cat show, so the leader will be very mad at me that I stayed up all night reading. (she's anti literature anyway)
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Sarah, why did you guys pick Borders? I'm just curious...I'm not sure whether to go there or to Barnes and Noble across the street.
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Can't go to a midnight party. But I will be waiting with ANTICIPATION to get it from Amazon.com on Saturday. Last time I got it right in the morning and got to spend the whole day happily reading. I'm going to have left-over chinese food, milkshake, kick ass reading music, and Earl Grey Tea.
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I have 3 copies on order at Barnes and Noble (one for me, my mom, and my little brother). But now Books-A-Million is offering an express pass for people who want to get-in-get-out-and-read. And BAM also has the DELUXE COLLECTOR'S EDITION on sale for like $42 instead of $60. So now I'm torn. I REALLY want the special edition but all my other copies are hardcover and I don't want to screw up my collection.
I'll be watching a Queer As Folk marathon with my college roommate who is visiting for the week and will be going with me at midnight to pick up our copies.
I call angry-Harry....all-caps-Harry. One of my brothers had turned 15 the month that OoTP came out and it was bizarre how well she had captured the angst of being 15. Teen boys are so angry. ha.
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I'm probably going to be grumbling about how I don't have money to buy it anyway, and even if I did, I wouldn't because it's been so long since I last read the first 5 that I would have to re-read all of them just to know what was going on. I recall vaguely that Sirius died in the last one. Also there was this repulsive woman that I envisioned as a carnivorous frog. And Harry was really annoying. That's about it.
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When the last one came out, money was tight enough that I decided I wasn't going to get it.
A friend in Portland bought it and shipped it express mail to me. *fondly* That nut! But she did get it to me on Friday (about a week or two after it came out) so I could read it on Shabbos.
This time, I'm buying my own. I've ordered from Amazon, but with free shipping they won't ship it until after the date it comes out.
That's ok. All I need is a book arriving on Shabbos that I can't open!
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I'll be going to my local Borders, leaving my mother to hold our place in line while I sneak off to browse the bookshelves....
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See, I'm not buying a copy of this book. My sister and mother and whole family will probably buy a copy (and I'll wait until they've read it and then borrow it), but I'm waiting for all 7 to be published so I can get the special super deluxe box set edition. (I do this with DVDs too.) The only HP book I've purchased was the UK version of OOTP because it came out while I was in Estonia and I found it in a little book store in Tartu. Couldn't pass that up.
But, I've never been to a Harry Potter party. I think it would be fun, so I might head over to Borders. In fact, maybe we'll crash Borders and B&N in the same night! I'll just go with my sister because she'll buy the book. Then I won't look like a loser.
(I like Borders better simply because they have CDs and DVDs too, as well as all the books. I tend to shop at Borders more than B&N, but very rarely for books at either.)
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quote:Originally posted by sarcasticmuppet: --keep an eye out for Mark Evans.
SPOILER (though straight from the horse's mouth so to say and she never gives out details)?? ***** In the FAQ section of JK Rowling's website she said there was nothing particularly important about Mark Evans. He truly is as small a character as he was made out to be.
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I will also be glued to the SciFi channel to watch the much-anticipated Battlestar season premiere! Posts: 1681 | Registered: Jun 2004
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I will be on an airplane debating the nature of the international date/time line. Let's see...lose a day going over...gain two days coming back? Or is that gain and then lose...17 hours plus 2, minus 3, carry the 6...land sometime in October...No that can't be right...
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My friend Molly has decided to give me Harry Potter 6 for my birthday, but she told me about it when I was telling her of my possible Harry Potter Eve plans. Now, if I go to the party, I can't buy the book. That could be okay. I will practice those "delaying-gratification" skills I keep hearing so much about. It's worth a shot.
Now I must decided whether to go to the party or go to the conference. I still don't know. It would be easier to delay gratification if I didn't surround myself with Harry Potter, but then, Harry Potter Day only comes once every other year or so, and there aren't going to be many left.
Maybe I'll skip the party and reward myself by going to Lumos 2006 next year.
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I don't read HP, never have, nor do I plan to, but I reserved it for a friend of mine. On this so-called HP Eve, I will be working a security shift at a local Dave and Buster's right across from the Barnes and Noble where I reserved it. At 11:50, I will take a ten minute break, walk over to B & N, walk past the long line of colorful costumed creatures who will meet their demise once the bar lets out, and approach my friend Eric.
"Hey Eric, how's it going?" "Pretty good man, I'm here 'til we get all these books out." "Yeah, same here. Never a Friday night off, eh?" "Nah, it's all right. Perks are great! Here's your book." "Hey thanks! How much do I owe ya?" "Are you kidding me? Don't worry about it! You scratch my back I scratch yours!" "I appreciate it! Stop by after work for a few drinks!" "Ok! See ya later!"
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I personally can't see how that's possible. Barnes and Noble keeps the boxes of Harry Potter books sealed until midnight. They threaten all of the employees with some sort of punishment for opening one early. And with all of the people there, there's no way you will just be able to walk out of that store holding a book that everyone else has been waiting for all evening (plus years of anticipation), and won't be getting for another 5+ minutes depending on the number they have. From my experience two years ago with HP #5, the Barnes and Noble people would never allow it.
Have you done this before? Or are you really thinking that your friend that works there has this much control over these things.
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quote:Originally posted by kojabu: Who's Mark Evans?
I believe (though I won't get to rereading #5 until sometime this week) that Mark Evans is a neighborhood boy that Dudley and his gang had been picking on. People are curious about him because that's Lily's maiden name and because JK Rowling has a tendency to casually mention characters in an offhanded way, only to have them end up being essential to the plot.
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