I decided last week to read all the Harry Potter books before the new one came out.
I saw that it was my last chance to participate in this particular cultural phenomenon.
I read the first one Sunday and yesterday in between worrying, and the second and third ones today.
Yes, all day. I read like 800 pages of Harry Potter. So, 3 to go, but they get successively longer.
Tomorrow, I have to practice moderation, because I had planned to do other things today, but all I did was read and occasionally get up to eat or pee.
I think I'm turning into my cat, who sleeps on her side like a horse all day. At least I didn't spend any money!
I'm too brain dead to think of a good question, so here are too bad ones:
1. I've heard the 4th Harry Potter book is no good and can be skipped. Comments?
2. I want to believe in magic now-- the kind that means owls deliver letters and cars can fly and such. Is magic real?
7 comments:
1. I haven't read them, so no comment. Or wait, I have a comment: see the movie!
2. Well, yesterday we prayed, and it worked. Isn't that magic?
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1) The fourth book is my favorite, so I would say no.
2) No less real than anything else, I would say, but I am in a bit of a flippant mood. Maybe I will have a more considered answer later.
1. Book 4 is the best! The weakest book is Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) -- that is almost nothing but "Harry is angry, Harry is mad, Harry is enraged, Harry is very angry, Harry is really pissed..." Still, I think there's info in it you need for later books.
2. I see magic in my life every day when I look at my kids.
I never read any of the Potter books because they are Bible sized and won't fit in my cute purse.
After the first movie I wanted my grad school to be Hogwart's and all my class mates to have fancy accents.
Then I began friends with theJunkysWife.
She's like magic.
Yea magic!
Ok, I'll read the 4th, but the 7th comes out SATURDAY, so I'm in a rush here.
i'm in agreement, the 4th is key. They all are, I think. Even the angry Harry one (tho I agree, you can skim the fist 250 pages of it)
Well, you don't really need to read them all before you do the new one. They are interesting books, but I don't think you need all the backstory to understand any particular book. I've usually forgotten almost all of the previous book by the time a new one comes out. You could go watch the movie of the 5th one and skip that one, maybe.
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