Potter = Gold
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The new Harry Potter book sold like hot cakes this past weekend!
The final installment in the franchise moved 8.3 million copies in its first 24 hours on sale in the U.S., setting a new record.
Deathly Hallows averaged more than 300,000 copies in sales per hour - more than 5,000 a minute.
At $34.99 a piece, the last Potter book generated far more revenue than the opening weekend of the latest Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which came out July 10th.
So have you read the last book???
You like it????
Posted: July 23, 2007 at 10:41 am
hmmmm-plot hole: Hermoine says she cast a memory charm on her parents so they would not know that had a daughter and even assumed different identities-yet not even 2 chapters later, in the dinner trying to escape the death eaters, she says she only read about memory spells and has never done one. WTF? Don't get me wrong but that is kinda a biggy.
i absolutely loved it. might begin rereading it now
i think that it was great, read the whole thing in 2 days, i just couldnt put it down. The ending was a little dissapointing i thought that it could have had a better last sentance. It was way to rushed, but in saying that i think that the whole Harry Potter trilagy was awsome and will go on for ever!
my book only cost $20.
Bought it on Sat morning (Thailand). Took me 2 nights to read up.
Too much talking/explaining during the last battle, I'd say.
But love it anyway!
I got it at Books-A-Million for $22 and finished it within the 24hrs I got it…it was absolutely AMAZING!!! J.K. did such a FABULOUS JOB! I had tears in my eyes after I read the last part of it (19yrs later). It was everything I hoped it would be and much much more!!!
loved it, but one thing that bothered me was that when harry went into the headmasters' office for the last time and the portraits all cheered, i was sure that he was going to be the next man of the job, and when that didn't happen, i was waiting for it in the epilogue, and it still didn't happen. i think it would have made it better, if not that, to at least hear what the generation WE know (harry, ron, ginny, etc.) is up to professionally, because, personally, i don't care much about their kids until there is a new JKR series about them.
The new book was a great and terrible beauty.
And, due to my boyfriend's employee discount/hook-ups, I was the third person in line at my city's main Barnes&Noble and only pad $22.
Read it, Read it, Read it, because the movie is [most likely] going to suck even worse then The Order of the Phoenix did.
and it sucked worse than Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise in between takes of the shower scene of Top Gun.
Dearest Tracy,
The reason you don't undertsand the "obsession" with the books is most probably the fact you don't have the skills to read one.
Although Britains excepted most good tv comes from America,
Fabulous literature will always come from Britain.
Regards
Miss Pout
the ending was cheesey as hell.
it would have been better if harry died.
loved it! great end!
ending was a clinche' let down. i still want another!
the only thing i read is PerezHilton blogs!
Yes omg! Its wonderful! Its a total emotional rollercoaster!
Will you people seriously get a life? Losing yourself in a children's book?…you should be ashamed…pick up some real literature, not an easy-read baby blabber series and call yourselves read! Unreal.
Loved it! Rowling should write another book about Ron and Hermione only! Love the hole romance between these two.
Loved the book just wished Ginny played a larger part in it. The first 500 pages are great but then it seems JK just run out of time and decided to rush everything. Should've been much longer. Really hope she'll write another book about the nineteen years gap.
$34.99??
it's a fiver in Asda in the UK…
$35 dollars - you were shafted! I swear you can buy it over here in Ireland for the € equivalent of $13!!
Its brill though, I love it, not finished it yet, I want to make it last as long as possible!
Perez - you're so funny, keep up the good work!
x,
Niamho.
fuck the book. i'll wait for the movie.
amazing i loved it i started crying at all the deaths but the begining wasnt as boring as usual!! if you havnt bought it already you should
Mint book! Cannot wait for the final film now….Potter gets naked a lot too….hmmmm!
The book was amazing!!!!!!!
I loved the eiplogue!!
it was so good!!!!
I bought mine when it first came out in Canada, at a store kind of like Target in the U.S. and it was only $29.99 and I got a $10.00 gift card for school supplies. I haven't finished it but it's AMAZING!
It was a great book. The epilogue was a disapointment but overall very very well written. I will miss the excitement of the book releases, but we still have 2 more movies to go!!!
Long Live Harry Potter!!!
Finished it in 24hours. this may be the best book yet. But be aware, it is also the most violent and scary. Many fights, many die.
i absolutely loved it… although parts in the middle were slow the action scenes were well written and all our questions were answered!! the epilogue was a great touch– if a little corny
it probably would have been better if some douche on perez didn't ruin it for me in a previous thread.
who gives a rat's ass about harry potter!!!!!!!
It was AMAZING! I'm so sad that I have no more books to read : (
Harry Potter Fans=Geek Burger with cheese……….lol
it was brilliant. i cried so much at the end.
it was brilliant. i cried soo much.
OMG the book is so amazing soo farr ! im so sad that there arent goonnnaa mee noo moreee (U)!
i read and finished it just a few hours after id bought it. its amazing, best book ever.
i read it
and i liked it
although i do wish jk would have shared what happened with luna
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LOVED LOVED LOVED LOVED LOVED the new Harry Potter book 7. Sad it's over. JK Rowling is one of the most brilliant women EVER!
I bought the book for 35 cents and finished it in 45 minutes! I'm better than you! HA
it was amazing!
totally kool
luv yah perez!
342!! (why does everyone put "first"??? especially when most of them aren't???)
I loved this book! So cute - fairly lame, yet kid-friendly epilogue. happy how she tied up the Snape story-line. *spolier* Distressed about the twins - wrong. so so wrong. Everyone kept telling me she was going to kill off one of the "big 3" and I was going to get my ass to England and bitch-slap JK if that was the case. So I was delighted with the turn-out.
I feel as though a great friendship has ended, I read the book so fast and now I feel lost! It was incredible, although I wasn't too impressed with the "Nineteen Years Later" epilogue. I really think JK could have elaborated more on what the characters become in those 19 years, who the headmaster becomes, who the actual Ministry for Magic is since Kingsley was temporary, I just want some answers!
How much is $34.99 in pounds?
I love the series and the book was good but the end kind of sucked!
Don't you guys who finished the book like waaaaay fast feel this empty void in ur life as you finished it. talking avid fans,of course. harry potter is not to be rushed but be allowed to spin its magic; to be cherished as each page is read.
the book was great until page 500 and was a little rushed though. could have had a more detailed storyline towards the end. i was actualli waiting for this dramatic duel btwn voldie and hay but was disappointed by how it turned out. Fred's death was unnecessary.
hell yeahhh
it was awesome!!
i only paid 17 bucks for it too
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hell yeahhh its was AWESOME!
i only paid 17 bucks for it
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no, not up to previous standard.
It was a'yait. The ending was crap though. Because marrying someone who resembles your dead mama is just sick!
It was a'yaight. The ending was crap. Because marrying someone who resembles your dead mama is just sick!
BRILLIANT. THIS WHOLE SERIES HAS SUCKED ME IN UNLIKE ANY BOOK HAS DONE BEFORE. I CRIED FOR HOURS. LIKE ALL OF US DIE HARD POTTER FANS, THE FACT THAT IT IS OVER IS HEARTBREAKING. AT LEAST WE STILL HAVE 2 MORE MOVIES, WHICH OF COURSE WILL HAVE NOTHING ON THE BOOKS, BUT IT'S STILL SOMETHING..