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July 13, 2005
Itching for Harry
I admit it… I’m a book geek. Furthermore, I am also a Harry Potter geek :)
I didn’t pick up on this series of books until the fourth one came out. My brother recommended them to me and I said “What?? Read a kids book voluntarily? For pleasure?” It turns out that they are books about kids not just books for kids. All of them are ripping good yarns.
Anyway, I tell you all of that to tell you this. In preparation for the sixth book coming out on Saturday I have reread the fifth book
to refresh my memory and man, what a whiner Harry has become. I realize he is now 15 years old and is supposed to be a self-absorbed, put-upon whiner but sheesh! There are parts of this book that are almost unbearable and are definately cringe-worthy.
So, all teenage hormonal spikes aside (Harry’s, not mine, hehehe), I am really looking forward to Saturday when the nice UPS man delivers my shiny new copy. I will sit right down and do nothing else until I finish it, which should be sometime late Sunday :)
Posted by Susan at July 13, 2005 4:33 PM
Comments
Ah, so I see you are among the Potterites, the drooling, shambling, masses of the un-sane, driven by the relentless throbbing of eldricht drums and the thin mad piping emenating from the seething nuclear chaos that is Shub Harry Potterath! the blind idiot god around whom the ancient ones dance in their dark ways gesticulating wildly in the creeping maddness from beyond time and space. Suffice it to say that I've never read a word of the Harrold Potter books save for the title of one of them, and only the Harry part.
Posted by: Ara at August 3, 2005 5:44 PM