Yay!
P.S. Although I no longer need to worry about spoilers, please continue to confine spoileriffic comments to That Which Must Not Be Blogged (for now), for the sake of readers who haven’t finished the book yet. Thanks!
P.P.S. Glenn Reynolds writes:
Hmm. Clicking around a few sitemeters, it appears that yesterday was the slowest Saturday in a long time for the blogosphere. Coincidence? Or all those people reading Harry Potter?
Okay, I didn’t check enough to be scientific, but I still think we should be glad J.K. Rowling didn’t release the book on a Monday, as the economic drag would probably tip us over into recession . . . .
Heh.
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July 22nd, 2007 at 2:04:38 am
Dude i finished about the same time you did and i didn’t even start reading til about 11:30 Pacific time, whats your excuse for being so slow ;-)
July 22nd, 2007 at 3:21:40 am
I bought and finished the book today. I am content.
July 22nd, 2007 at 8:18:17 am
Ted hasn’t put the book down except to sleep last night- must be good!
July 22nd, 2007 at 2:47:38 pm
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July 22nd, 2007 at 6:38:11 pm
So I can stop policing That Which Must Not Be Blogged, yes?
July 22nd, 2007 at 7:09:59 pm
Yes indeed, Sean. Thanks. :)
July 22nd, 2007 at 8:33:59 pm
I just don’t understand the bravado (albeit tongue-in-cheek from David K.) about who can read a children’s book the fastest.
July 22nd, 2007 at 8:54:14 pm
:) Well, for what it’s worth, I read the book in somewhere between 12-13 hours of actual reading time, once you take out the time I spent sleeping, packing, going through security at the airport, etc.
I also finished the book 25 hours, 9 minutes after the midnight on-sale date; 24 hours, 22 minutes after buying it; and 23 hours, 7 minutes after starting it. All of those beat my Half-Blood Prince records of 26:27, 26:02, and 25:47, respectively. :)
July 22nd, 2007 at 10:41:37 pm
10:38 Sunday and just finished. It was about 1 hour for 100 pages or so, but I had a lot of other competition for my time.
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:21:29 am
Really, what’s the doggone rush with the reading speed? Honestly, enjoy it. The audiobook is 21 hours.
Cheers.
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:23:35 am
Anonymous, it was a JOKE, notice the smiley at the end of the sentence. I knew Brendan would be busier during the day, but since he’s a bigger Potter nerd than i i just wanted to give him a little friendly teasing. I know people who read it much faster than me, and i’d hardly call a 700+ page book a childrens book…
July 23rd, 2007 at 10:23:34 am
I think it’s a good sign that even children’s literature has become more complicated and requires more brainpower. Remember that the next time someone tells you that pop culture is inherently stupid.
July 23rd, 2007 at 3:46:21 pm
Anyone else notice how dark this book was? This was no longer any children’s book. Though it might have been written on a relatively low reading level, I can’t see it as a book intended for kids. Without posting spoilers, I just think that the death level was a little high, the repeated use of “effing” to replace “f*cking” (which, of course, is a replacement for something else), and someone calling someone else a BITCH (in all caps, too), this was not a book intended for kids.
Or maybe it was. But you can’t eliminate the fact that this was one dark book.
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:03:49 pm
Kids are aware of these things. J.K. has said people don’t give kids enough credit. They hear swearing all the time, experience death, and face some nasty things every day. I don’t think any of these elements are ever gratuitous in her work, they’re realistic (as much as they can be for a magical world) and tactful. I think that’s the appeal of these stories: it’s full of wonder, but not sugar-coated.
She never set out to write the books specifically for children. They were marketed that way from the start because they had to be, but everyone knows they’re written for all of us.
July 24th, 2007 at 4:36:07 pm
Great work with this one, nicelly done!