mingster

I left Barns and Noble at 11pm, being too tired to wait behind a hundred or so dressed up 12-year old kids.

Did anyone get the book?

Muz

Yup

Scot

did you have to wait until 12pm Pacific time? You could have bought it 3 hours earlier here in Pennsylvania..........I could have read you some pages over the phone.

cali99boy

They were actually selling it at Albertson's (a grocery store chain). Check out the book at a supermarket near you.

Optikal

For those of you that are reading it, what's your general opinion so far?

EvoVII

Haven't bought it yet, but waiting to buy it for my cousin, he's a big fan... I think I'll wait till the Harry Potter craze dies down a little bit and buy it in a couple weeks..

Elistan

Got it, am about 150 pages in. (I was shopping for stuff from Amazon a few months ago and noticed they were pre-ordering, so I figured what the heck.) Same writing quality as the others. It's always struck me that while it's about kids, it's not meant as a kid's book. (Even though JKR has pretty much said it is.) Maybe it's because of the different culture, but she uses words even I'm not familiar with - and I got a 750 SAT verbal way back when. I think it's awesome that kids these days are so interested in a writen work at this high of a level. The world needs more like it.

s2koolzaino

hell no. I can think of at least a thousand better things to do with my time... i havent seen any of the movies or read any of the other books either, nor do I plan on ever.

s2kz

EvoVII

The books are pretty damn good man, for people of all ages.. the movies are decent too, but it's better to read the book..

Elistan

A friend of mine refuses to read the books simply because they're so popular. I think that's rather silly - it's letting other people dictate you choices just as much as reading them only because they are so popular.