Misterimpatient

No spoilers here.

I finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows this afternoon at 5:10. I enjoyed the book and can recommend it to anyone who has invested all the time and money in the other 6. Bad idea: Start with book 7. If I was in the mood to be sarcastic, mean and untruthful (I’m not in said mood) I’d say the best thing was the absence of quidditch. While that was a good thing, it hardly mattered. It really only underscored the somewhat more adult tone and content of this volume. More than some of the other HP books, I felt this one moved along quickly for most of it’s 759 pages.

Is the book 759 pages in the UK as well? I wondered because the line space in the US edition is pretty wide so that we get only 30 lines per page. I guess this is “young reader” spacing.

Anyway, I bought the book for full list price at 8 minutes past midnight on Saturday, July 21, 2007 at a local CVS(pharmacy). I had checked earlier in the day and the day staff said they had the book out back and it would be out for sale by 12:15. When I got there at midnight, the overnight crew knew nothing about it (infidels!), but they were good enough to go check. They found their one box of books and, after a few minutes I had my copy. They went on sale today for 24.99, down from 34.99 so I’ll bring my receipt back and they’ll give me a credit for the 10 bucks. If I wanted to wait over night, my local grocery store had a big pile of books for 19.99 but had I done that, by the time they opened I would have been 100 page behind.

The last observation I’ll make is that I’ve read on the net that it should take about 9.5 hours to read this book. I know I’m a slow reader but I bet I spent 18 hours, over two days, reading this. Some 10 year old is probably reading two pages for every one I finish AND I’ll bet with better comprehension.

Bring in the clowns….

Filed by misterimpatient at 10:02 pm under Patter