This was the line to pick up your pre-ordered copy of the final Harry Potter book. The book became availible at midnight and this was the line at 8:00 p.m.
This snaked down the parking structure stairs and onto the first floor and into the store.
I was there with my camera in the event Christians showed up to protest the release of the book. When the previous book was released there was a group of folk singing hymes and preaching the word to the unsaved folk buying the books.
I had hoped they would return for this book release and I waited and waited and they never came.
"Father.... Why have you foresaken me?"
So I went to IKEA and bought cute little picture frames!
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Dem crazy Christians stayed away. Good.
These people waiting in line for a book are crazy too. My God. For a book. I dunno man. I just wouldn't do it. This JK Rowling must be loving this.
For a book you could have read online a week prior? If you really needed to know what happenened you'd know long before you had to line up.
Rowling must be fiddling her bean all the way to the bank.
Damn - had I known you were going to I would have asked you to pick me up a Farfegnugen Laundry Basket.
I was at an indie bookstore on Valencia last night, and one of the tatooed lesbian clerks was cutting open a couple of boxes of them. When I smirked, she rolled her eyes and said, "Yeah, we gotta sell 'em too." I guess I should force myself to read one someday. I made it about five minutes through one of the movie adaptions while on a plane. A tree was trying to eat the kids, and then I fell asleep.
I've never read any of these books. I'm amazed by the buzz that it has generated. It seems like Star Wars but not so fun.
I've only seen one Star Wars movie and fell asleep during it too. Or was it Star Trek? Is there a difference?
those people in line need to get a life not a book
Okay - here's the truth: I finished The Deathly Hallows by Sunday and I enjoyed it. No, I didnt buy it Friday night, I bought it Saturday afternoon. Yes, I am that much of a geek.
I love to read when I get the chance. Anything from Amis to Bronte to Carr to DeLillo... you get it.
The Harry Potter books are an easy, fun read. You do become invested in the characters, and she does have a knack for bringing back that age of uncertainty (11-17). The books become visiting with an old friend - kinda like when you read a lot of Sherlock Homes or Agatha Christie.
Katherine and I bought the book Sunday afternoon before our drive back to LA from SF. I knocked out about ~150 pages in the car when I wasn't driving, and ended up being a major dork and staying up to finish it at 3:30 this morning. I could have finished quicker, but we also went out to dinner, and I had a bunch of pictures to put on flickr. My main reason for reading it in a day: So Katherine doesn't have to wait to read it.
Now, back to reading for my summer class, English 429: Adolescent Literature. Nine books in five weeks, but they're all pretty easy reads. You'll recognize some of them: Catcher in the Rye, Go Ask Alice, Lord of the Flies, that kind of stuff. Much easier than the Lit Theory class that just ended.
So the adolescent reading class is the same as Serial killer literature? Odd.
Pretty much. The idea is that these are all books written at an adolescent-consumable level that deal with the unique pressures of adolescence, whether in a fairly plausible way (like Catcher in the Rye or The House on Mango Street) or through more unlikely situations (like Lord of the Flies or The Giver).
Serial killers probably connect to these books both because they deal with disconnection from society and because they have easily comprehensible surface meanings.
I hadn't read Catcher in the Rye since high school. I'd forgotten how good it is. The Chocolate War, on the other hand, is lame, even with the surprisingly bleak ending.
White Noise! White Noise!
I think they should have included Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
What did you read for Lit Theory? Any good reccommendations? I've got room on my nightstand and I'm lagging on finishing what's there right now (Sarum; a book on screenwriting; and an Amy Tan book that my husband and daughter for me for mother's day)...
The Chocolate War was an even worse film.
Lit Theory traditionally starts with Plato & Socrates, working up to current theories, but since we only had six weeks we skipped a bunch of the early stuff.
The prof was a younger "cowboy hipster dude," which made the class a lot more interesting. He clearly was not trying to get us to parrot back what we thought he wanted to hear, but to actually form and back up our own opinions; the first thing we read was On the Poverty of Student Life, basically forcing us to justify our attending a university.
We had two textbooks: Terry Eagleton's Literary Theory: An Introduction, and Falling Into Theory, an anthology of conflicting ideas about literature and reading. They're actually both surprisingly accessible- at least until Eagleton gets fairly heavily into semiotics and psychoanalysis. Eagleton takes the time to explain different lit theories, then points out their flaws, while the Richter book does the same thing with collected essays.
We also read "Industrial Society and its Future," better known as The Unabomber Manifesto. It's an amazing combination of great ideas and pure insanity. It's exactly what I'd expect from a mathematician turned philosopher: all observation and cold rationalization, no comprehension of humanity.
For weeks leading up to the release of the book someone had been coming into the bookstore I work in and placing bibles in front of our stacks of Potter books. I just don't get it.
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