Sales of the "Half-Blood Prince" starts tomorrow at midnight! My store's gonna be hoppin'!

I'm gonna be doing a twelve hour shift until 3am... then, returning at 8am to open for more craziness!!

Pray for me!

June7 said:

I can't wait!

Why do people rush out to buy it at midnight?

Why not wait til the next day, it's not like they'll run out of the fuckers.

I just left work, and people are in line already... spending the night!!

Ohhh I better phone Chapters, I have every book so far. I have been waiting patiently.

bkw said:

to be one of the first in the world to get a copy and start reading it

EarthAirFireWater said:

Why?

What does that matter? you can read a Harry Potter book in one day anyway.

And another Harry Potter movie I hope.

bkw said:

maybe the first couple of you get really into it you can read it full on in one day but they get thicker as they go...this one is going to be a big book apparently

Do people actually leave their basements to buy these books?

ReturnOfDOOK said:

EarthAirFireWater said:

Hi Nat!

ReturnOfDOOK said:

hey you

I don't understand whats the big deal with this henry potter character

bkw said:

My thoughts exactly....

I've gone from someone who enjoyed the first couple of books, as being unexceptional but fun little stories, to someone who is totally fed up with this never-ending bullshit.

Every story is the fucking same!

Let me summarise this one for you before it comes out - Voldemort loses.

MartyMcFly said:

maybe someone forgot to tell them they can pre order the book

TheFrog said:

I'm scared of you right now! lol

EarthAirFireWater said:

you know i couldn't hurt a fly.

If one landed in my beer, i'd apologise to the damn fly for letting my beer get in its way.

Harry Potter....

I prefer Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs...

Cheek said:

not alice in wonderland

(much better than harry potter imo)

Raine said:

Alice is an all time fave!

Cheek said:

The last book came out the day I got married - hence I had PLENTY of time during my honeymoon to do my keep-fit lengths of the swimming pool, on my own (WHY does she read this SHITE?!?!?)


Now I can look forward to a good week or so of actually being able to operate the TV remote myself whilst she is lost in the middle of anither one of these dumb books

rocknrolldave said:

EarthAirFireWater said:

Over ? I haven't even started yet!

TheFrog said:

You should put a spoiler warning on that !

I totally agree with you, it's turned into Harry Potter and the Wizard of Marketing.

Does anybody actually believe that those copies of the book were sold accidentally ? The publishers have made it perfectly clear for months when the release date was - are we supposed to believe that any book store manager is too stupid to take note of that, particularly when we're talking about one of the most awaited books there's ever been. The only way they could have 'forgotten' the release date and sold copies early is if they were instructed to do so by the publisher in order to crank up the marketing machine another notch. And I really resent the abuse of the judicial system in order to hype a book. I think there is a case for the publishers to answer - wasting court time is a serious matter. I don't know why the judges even entertain these cases. I would have told them to fuck off and get over themselves.

EarthAirFireWater said:

I'm waiting for the dutch translation.... will probably be around october/november?

MartyMcFly said:

YAY!! ...and cool I hope it doesn't take too long