HP Parties?
 

Okay, admit it. SOMEBODY here's going to be in one of those lines Friday night waiting for the stroke of midnight to buy Harry Potter #5.

...someone OTHER than me.

If anyone in the Chicago area wants to find me that night, PM me, I'll give you the location.

aaaaaaaaa.................... I'll see you when you get back. I have this thing about lines.







...... even lines I'd want to be in. ;)

Actually I'm going for the people I already plan on meeting there, and NOT for the book! I pre-ordered mine on amazon.com in April. ;)

Plus many bookstores are having in-store parties, giveaways, etc etc.

I still only enjoy crowds in my bedroom.

Must be a pretty spacious bedroom then.

I am not going at midnight, but I will go the next day to pick up the book.

Okay, just to be fair then I won't post spoilers when I'm done with it before you get yours ;)

My gf is going, which means I will be going.

OK.......now don't whack me upside the head or anything but......

I've NEVER read HP.........nor have I ever seen a single movie!

I have no clue what the books are about (cept some magic of some sort) because when the very first book came out I thought it was just for children and so I never followed the series (as I have no children) and now I fear I am too far behind to play catch up!

*covering my ears as everyone starts to yell at me for being in the dark on topical reading*

It's not too late Lixy. This way, you will have 5 to go through without waiting for them to come out one at a time. I started them after the first 4 were already released. I picked up the first 2 for some light reading for a vacation one year. When I started I never looked up until we got to the vacation city. Since then I have read them all at least twice and I am so ready for #5!

Whew! TY Scarlett! I saw that you had posted after me and I was kinda scared to come back in and see if you yelled at me for being so far behind on my reading! LOL!

*hugs*

We could even suggest waiting until all seven are out and she's all done with them, but no one knows how long that will be. She was doing 1 a year until after book 4 came out. She took time to have a hand in the first two movies (and the third is in production), got married, had a second kid with the new (younger!) husband, released two smaller books in early 2001 for charity....
But she's supposed to start on #6 this summer, after the hype for 5 starts to fade.

Re: HP Parties?
 

ME!!
I can't wait!! I preordered mine too...but I just wanta go cuz it seems fun.

Did you ever finish Desperation Lixy? TAK!

And I assume everyone heard about the stolen copies:

Thousands of Latest Harry Potter Books Stolen
Jun 17, 11:21 am ET

By F. Brinley Bruton

LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of copies of the eagerly awaited new Harry Potter book were stolen from a warehouse in England over the weekend, police said on Tuesday.

The 7,680 copies of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the fifth in JK Rowling's series on the boy wizard, were taken in a late-night heist on Merseyside in northern England on Sunday.

Police said they were checking a white articulated trailer truck found about 20 miles from the warehouse for forensic evidence.

They cautioned would-be readers not to touch the books, before their public release early on Saturday.

"We want to warn members of the public that if they handle the book between now and Saturday in any way other than legitimately, they may face criminal charges," a spokeswoman said.

Rowling's four books, the first of which she wrote as a penniless single mother in Edinburgh, have sold almost 200 million copies in 55 languages.

Police previously thought the haul was worth about one million pounds ($1.7 million), but later reduced that to around 130,500 pounds.

Bookmakers William Hill, meanwhile, leapt ahead and took a bet on future plot twists in the seventh and last installment in the series.

"Once we were sure that it wasn't JK Rowling trying to place the bet, we were happy to oblige," said a spokesman. "After all, we are, er, bookmakers."

Oh please please please don't tell me anything. 1 week, that's all I ask. Amazon's delivering me my very own copy on Saturday, but I'm going to try to save it for a Trans-atlantic flight 5 days later. It'll be a perfect airplane book.....

Didn't know you were reading that, Lixy!! (My bad :()

Isn't it ACE?!?!?! :)


BTW, I've never read HP either..... but my 9 yr old daughter has read all 4 to tatters!!

DM

Of course I wont be in line never read HP and never will :D Come to think of it I've not seen the movies either!

What about the walmart store that put the book on it's shelves early be mistake..........a few people managed to buy a copy before the error was spotted and the books were withdrawn !!

They should all be handed vomit any-flavor-beans and propperly scolded.

I wanna know what major character bites it! Augh! Someone tell me!!!

:D <-----------PF. You and me both, PF. :cool:

I am really curious about that too Steph. Can't wait to find out!

forget the lines and crowds I pre-order also.

I have preordered the book also, for all you nuts out there have you visited the web page with all the neat info anout HP called

www.mugglenet.com

its a good site for info.

I read all the books one after another a few months ago and got hooked and have been waiting for this book.

Lets see there was the Wal-Mart (in Canada I think) that sold them early, some pharmacy around Indianapolis that sold some early, and the store that sold one early to the New York Daily News, which ran a preview with that copy, and is now being sued by Rowling (and presumably her UK/US publishers) for breaking the silence.
And SHE's the one that insists on the silence!

oh well.

Still trying to get my group together for Friday night.

Joining PF in yelling aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....a line for a BOOK?
Nevah!

Movie, maybe. Book, well, haven't read the others so I guess jumping into this would be like jumping into a vat of chocolate AFTER the kettle has been licked clean! :p

I better not say anything about the Apple Store North Michigan Avenue opening on the 27th at 6 PM then. Those ALWAYS generate a crowd.

A woman who scored a copy in Canada was offered $5,000 from the publishers if she'd give it back but she wouldn't!

NO! You had better not say that! I don't wanna have to bite you! :bite:

;)

She scored! LOL
 

Anyone else giggling cuz it sounds like they're drug traffic-ing?

Anyone else think the woman is NUTS for not taking the money, sticking it in her panties and running like hell?
:cool:

I also pre-ordered so I won't be waiting in line at midnight. I'd like to head out and see the excitement but I haven't been sleeping well lately. I'll probably take a few sleeping pills and catch some Z's.

Re: She scored! LOL
 

She claims she couldn't put the book down. Shit, for $5,000, I'd photocopy it and bring it back! No, scratch that, I'd just bring it back for the moolah. Hello, it's being released in a few days!!!

It kinda screams 'marketing hoopla' to me.

Re: Re: She scored! LOL
 

It certainly does! :)

Re: Re: She scored! LOL
 

Shit, no shit! LOL I think I'd hand copy *WITH A DULL PENCIL EVEN!* the book for $5000 bucks! DAY-YUM, that's a lot of money!


Kind of begs the next question I guess. What would or wouldn't ya do for $5000 bucks? LOL






(I would touch a monkeys butt for a mere 2 dollah!) ROTFLMAO

Never read it either, nor seen any of the films.

To be quite honest it doesn't appeal to me at all. I'm not into fantasy (other than sexual) in the slightest and I actually find it kind of annoying. I have this big thing about going against the tide....if everyone else is going to be doing x, I like to make damn sure I'm doing y! LOL

I would rather read something a little more 'real' and a little more contraversial.

Lolita is my favourite book in the world and I just don't see how Rowling is going to match up to Nabokov......just my opinion, you're all welcome to tell me I'm a snob and that I'm missing out.

Hehehe....you can tell me off all you want, but it won't make a blind bit of difference to me! LOL

*Stubbonly digging heels in*

I'm with ya on that Lou...we can be snobs together ;)

Excellent BCG!!

There's safety in numbers :D

readin? pfft. i never readed and i turned out real good-like. *squints and looks around*

So how were the HP parties?

My people went.. and just about the time I got naked to get in the tub they were back already. They said nothing exciting was going on. Had their pics made in glasses and Mr. Lil picked up a copy at Target today.