phloidf787
07-19-2007, 10:54 PM
I don't know how many of you are thinking this way, but tomorrow is a truly significant day in our lives. It will be the last day that we ever have to anticipate a new Harry Potter book; the last day we can throw around theories about what is coming next; the last day we can finish a Harry Potter book and find comfort in knowing that there is still another one yet to come; in a way we all grow up a little after tomorrow because HP won't have the same magic anymore. In the future when kids read this they'll know all the books are already out there. Most likely everyone will know what happens. They won't be able to spend two years coming up with theories and then arguing about them. There won't be any more JKR interviews where she drops little hints about what's coming. After tomorrow no other book, at least in our lifetimes, will ever so utterly capture our imaginations again. Tomorrow is our last chance to live in the moment. After Friday we will never again go to a midnight release and become giddy with excitement. Tomorrow is a day to be cherished and mourned, for it is the end of an era.
So I ask you: When you get that book in your hands, please cherish how special it is. Look back on all the years you have read the books and smile. Take your time reading it, for this is the last chance you get. LIVE IN THE MOMENT!
Tomorrow...
Tomorrow...
Tomorrow is special.
phloidf787
07-19-2007, 11:11 PM
I know it might seem dumb to get so wrapped up in a book series, to get so emotional, but I have been reading these books since I was 11! The only thing that has been more constant, more cherished, is my best friend, whom I've been friends with since kindergarten.
raynes
07-20-2007, 01:18 AM
I don't know how many of you are thinking this way, but tomorrow is a truly significant day in our lives. It will be the last day that we ever have to anticipate a new Harry Potter book; the last day we can throw around theories about what is coming next; the last day we can finish a Harry Potter book and find comfort in knowing that there is still another one yet to come; in a way we all grow up a little after tomorrow because HP won't have the same magic anymore. In the future when kids read this they'll know all the books are already out there. Most likely everyone will know what happens. They won't be able to spend two years coming up with theories and then arguing about them. There won't be any more JKR interviews where she drops little hints about what's coming. After tomorrow no other book, at least in our lifetimes, will ever so utterly capture our imaginations again. Tomorrow is our last chance to live in the moment. After Friday we will never again go to a midnight release and become giddy with excitement. Tomorrow is a day to be cherished and mourned, for it is the end of an era.
So I ask you: When you get that book in your hands, please cherish how special it is. Look back on all the years you have read the books and smile. Take your time reading it, for this is the last chance you get. LIVE IN THE MOMENT!
Tomorrow...
Tomorrow...
Tomorrow is special.
I guess I am lucky. The big thing of my childhood was transformers. At the time they came out the technology wasn't enough to make them look real. So 20 years later my generation is getting to live our childhood dreams all over again. It won't be the same for you and Harry Potter.
unlikelybannedname
07-20-2007, 01:59 AM
I truly respect Rowling for stopping the books, telling her readers to move on with their lives.
Game0ver
07-20-2007, 06:36 AM
Want to become really enthralled reading a story published in a series of books? Ok, Harry Potter was your warm up and now you're ready to graduate to a higher level of intellectual entertainment by reading one or all of the volumes of the Foundation series by Issac Aszimov. You will line your pet bird cages with Harry Potter books after that.
Here the first paragraph about this literary masterpiece found in the Wiki entry:
The Foundation Series is an epic science fiction series written over a span of forty-four years by Isaac Asimov. It consists of seven volumes that are closely linked to each other, although they can be read separately. The term 'Foundation Series' is often used more generally to include the Robot Series and Empire Series, which are set in the same fictional universe. In total there are fourteen novels and dozens of short stories written by Asimov, and six novels written by other authors after his death. The series is highly acclaimed, winning the one-time Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series" in 1965.
Here's the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundation_Series .
Follow it if you dare but I warn you, if you're one of those WiiFit-type follow-the-rules kind of idiots, don't bother---it will all be Greek to you.
@raynes
Here here brother. Kids today don't know what they missed. I a world that's all about the "now" they'll never know the feeling of having to wait 20 years for their boyhood games to come to life in front of their eyes.
In other new, if Tranformers had been any better the next person in my seat would have sat in a sticky mess. AUTOBOTS, ROLL OUT!