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Berhael
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Posted: Mon 06 Jun , 2005 2:51 pm
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I am. :D

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Don't think so. :) Will probably wait till 9 next morning ;)

Will you stay up all night reading then?


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Nah, I don't have the stamina any more! :D
But I want to see the atmosphere of a midnight opening. :)

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I'll be there! :D

Very excited for Book 6. Besides, midnight events are just plain fun.

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Still... to far... away...

Since it's a Friday night, I might pick it up... but I'd be better off waiting until Saturday morning... so I actually get some sleep...

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I'll pick it up Saturday morning, and probably spend the whole day reading.

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Berhael wrote:
But I want to see the atmosphere of a midnight opening. :)
That's a good reason. I may just try to do so this year. :D

The last book I had delivered. I kept pacing around and looking for the postman to come getting more antsy by the minute because it was wasted reading time. :P

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I've ordered it from the internet, from bokkilden.no, who have brought me all the Extended LotRs a week before they actually came out. I'm hoping for something similiar this time as well... :D

(I'm also hoping that the day I get the book will be a resting day in Tour de France, since I would prefer not to read all day with the TV on in the background...)

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I will have mine delivered to my front door on July 16th. I preordered mine several months ago from Amazon.com. ;)

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We have to wait until 9am (midnight in the UK).

We're not just queuing up, however. My 8 year old son and I have signed up for a 5:45am trip on the 'Gleewarts' Express, an event being run by our local bookshop.

It should be fun!


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samaranth, so you can get the book at exactly the same time the people in the UK do? That sure is nice! Our stores don't give it away until midnight in the US so the east coast gets it 5 hours later and I have to wait 6 extra hours! :rage:

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I wish. :bawl:

I don't know when Amsterdam gets it.

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I'll get it Saturday morning; seeing I'm in a far Eastern time zone that'll still be before midnight for many of you people.


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I just realized I'll be out of town that weekend... which means I probably won't get it until Sunday evening at the earliest...

Oh well, not much sleep that night...

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I wish I could get it at midnight, but I don't think the bookstore I preordered mine in is going to be open then. :P Will probably end up getting it sometime in the afternoon and not getting a minute of sleep until I've read it all. :D This one is supposed to be shorter than OotP, isn't it?

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I'll have it on pre-order, but if it turns up on Usenet before then I'll read it on the PC.

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Ooh, it's coming out soon?

I guess it's obvious I won't be going to get it at midnight ... but probably within the first week.

I hope it's better than the last one.


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Also hoping it is better than the last one, which I, as a wannabe writer, was insulted by. :P Floppy plots, bloated text ... it reads like the work of an all-powerful writer who no longer listens to the good editing advice that made her first few books lovely reading, in my opinionated opinion :D

But still, I'll be getting it next morning from an online order, and I'll read it as quick as can be. I love the atmosphere of sailing through a new novel knowing readers the world round are doing the same.

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When "Goblet of Fire" came out, Ms M and her husband went to a party the night before, which ended in a enormously giddy game of name-guessing ("a relative of mine has the name of a famous politician in the 19th century ... " "... Otto?") and that went on until three o'clock. I slept three hours, got up, went to the bookstore crawling with kiddies and their parents, got book, went home, put it on Ms M's bedstand, went back to sleep and wondered myself how the book got there during the night.

One cannot repeat things like this if one wants to. I think I let myself drift on that evening and see what happens.

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I don't know if they even start selling the book at midnight here, and I most probably won't get it until a few days later. It probably doesn't sell out at once anyway.

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