On 7/23/07, Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: > > > On 7/21/07, Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> I just finished it. I'm in San Diego, so I lost three hours due to the > >> time change, but just finished it. It's amazing, wonderful, deeply > moving, > >> and not just everything I hoped for, but far more. Happy reading to > all of > >> you still working on it!!! > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > I'm about two thirds of the way through, and enjoying the heck out of > it. > > > > Speaking of no spoilers, Friday evening I went with some friends to see > the > > fifth Harry Potter movie, and then we drove to our local Wal-Mart to > pick up > > the seventh book. It was about 1 AM, and there was no waiting, a free > > poster, free cookies and cupcakes, bookmarks, trivia cards, etc., and > > several pallets loaded up with the new book. On the way back home, we > drove > > past a Borders and saw several dozen people camped out, waiting for the > > store to open at 7 AM. We thought about stopping to tell them they > didn't > > have to wait, but then decided not to spoil their fun. > > > > But I bet at least a few of them felt silly when they found out (if they > > found out). > > Book People in Austin was selling vouchers for the book back in March > (which is when I paid for our 2 copies). > > I could have gone to a closer bookstore, or Wal-Mart, or heck, probably > HEB, even, but I wanted to go to Book People. (And with the excuse of > wanting to find parking THERE, rather than across the street, I got there > around 9 and spent some time browsing in the bookstore -- bought 6 more > books, as well.) >
Six more books would have been out of my budget. On the other hand, Wal-Mart had free cookies and cupcakes, a trivia quiz, bookmarks, a small-ish free poster that included partial pictures of the covers of the previous six HP novels, wristbands with each of the house names... I know I'm missing something. Oh, and the actual book cost me three bucks less than Borders was charging. :-) I checked out the website for Book People. Wow. It looks like you've got yourself a great local independent bookstore. I wish I still had a good local bookstore around here. To help support a good local bookstore, I'd have ponied up the extra three dollars There aren't a whole lot of independent booksellers left around here, and there are a couple that I won't go to just on principle -- long story. -- Mauro Diotallevi "Hey, Harry, you haven't done anything useful for a while -- you be the god of jello now." -- Patricia Wrede, 8/16/2006 on rasfc -- Not a Harry Potter reference. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
