<p>Bandit, was Charlie and Choc Factory good? The D of mine who saw it last night is currently at a summer program at Harvard so she saw it down there. The other D was in NYC for the night but is now back in VT but has rehearsals for a show here almost every night. I am sure she will see it eventually. I have not had a chance to ask the other D how the movie was. Tomorrow her GC is traveling to Boston to see the Red Sox/Yankees game (he is a devoted Red Sox fan) and had an extra ticket and knew my older D was in Boston and invited her to join him and so that’s where she will be! My kids get around. I, on the other hand, am just a driver, though now they both drive. </p>
<p>I ordered from Amazon as my 15 yr old said we didn’t have to do the midnight thing as in years past.
Amazon delieverd by noon today two books- not sure what is going on as I only ordered one- all the info on package is mine but I have only been billed for one- sending them an email.
No matter what I feel about the storyline- I have a fond place in my heart for Harry- my youngest who entered 3rd grade not even knowing letter sounds- was reading Harry Potter by summer.
I probably will read this one- it sound much more complex than the last- besides I am not a book snob- I am halfway through the Outlander series by Diane Gabladon, and while I think all the sex is distracting- I have bought the whole series instead of getting it at the library!</p>
<p>Susan,<br>
I really didn’t think that this one could be re-made. I was wrong. It was wonderful. It has a different tone than the original, but I won’t say more than that. Johnny Depp was incredible. It all was. Very Tim Burton.</p>
<p>Lindsey says this book is her new favorite of the HP series.<br>
Ross</p>
<p>Is anyone else having trouble getting into this book? All my friends are all happliy proclamming “Im done” or im on pg"600 something already." I stayed up all night." Mabye its just me but i’m on chapter 4 or 5 and have to stop and reread things because try as I might its all going in one ear and out the other. Mabye its just the fact that im having a bad day. I might put it aside and come back when I’m feeling better.</p>
<p>I dunno about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Johnny Depp is skeeving me out in the previews 'cause he’s reminding me too much of Michael Jackson.</p>
<p>I also went to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and then to the B&N Potter Party.</p>
<p>Well, there was other stuff in there too (like a great dinner with friends at T.G.I. Friday’s), but all told my day lasted from 1:45pm to … well, now, considering that I stayed up to read the book (I tried to sleep, honest, but I kept waking up every five minutes wanting to read more!).</p>
<p>I picked it up today at Wal Mart (lots and lots of copies available). special price today- $13.99 . It’s packed in a box to be sent to my s. at Duke TIP. He said there’d be a gazillion other copies around from all the other kids. Maybe it was silly to buy it. After all, he hasn’t opened his summer reading yet.</p>
<p>My son and friend got their books at the local Borders—also a big party atmosphere. Son finished it yesterday afternoon, after just a few hours of reading. Says he can’t wait for the next—just wants to know how it ends.</p>
<p>His assessment–things that used to be important were resolved, but newly important matters are unresolved. Hmmm…I did ask him not to give away the plot…</p>
<p>Bandit, I spoke with my D this morning who saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and she said it was pretty good but that she liked the original one better. She said they changed some things (makes sense to make a different).</p>
<p>I ordered mine last September (obsessed, anyone?) from Walden’s. Then, on Friday, I went to Books A Million for their party, and it was SO wild!</p>
<p>I read all the newspapers concerning the different parties. I thought it was neat that kids all over the world were reading the same book. One paper even commented that “Harry Potter has done more to help world unity than any leader.”</p>
<p>Yay for the wizarding world! <em>winks</em></p>
<p>Straggler in the family, I finished about half an hour ago.</p>
<p>We did the midnight party thing, D and two friends came home and started reading the night through, the kitchen being stocked with snacks. D finished about 6:15am. Her friends, who had dozed off, a hour or two later.</p>
<p>TheMom finished yesterday afternoon. I got to about page 500 before going to bed at 2am. The book made us pretty useless for other aspects of life yesterday.</p>
<p>I am probably the only person in the U.S. (perhaps the world) who has not read these books. The first couple are coming with me on vacation so that I will no longer be a complete and total embarrassment to my daughter. </p>
<p>The D is working in NYC this summer and could well have been in the crowd at Borders with Soozie’s daughter. A group of Columbia students went to dinner, saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and finally to Borders to pick up their books. This series seems to be ageless.</p>
<p>Ellen, not sure the exact location of the Borders she was at (with a few zillion other people) but it was nearby where she was staying, in walking distance to 28th and 3rd…which I think is around the Murray Hill area? Actually, it might be the Flatiron District. Funny if they were in the same line…neither of them New Yorkers either. </p>
<p>I have read all of them up to the latest but I probably wont read the Half blood prince till school starts again- I hear they are very dark and I am just not in the mood.
I like them but I think they are overrated- I have read other childrens series I like better ( the Grey king by Susan Cooper for one) but they are very engaging and if that is what it takes to get teens of America off their X-box who am I to argue?</p>
<p>Emerald
I am so supportive of your commnet. Anything to bring books to forefront is good. Lots of kids got hungry after the first few and turned to the tOLKIEN series, Orson S Cord, etc.</p>
<p>bookworm
I have psoted elsewhere that my daughter who didn’ tknow letter sounds ( or was it earlier in this thread?) at beginning of third grade- was reading Harry Potter by herself at the end of third grade.
She then went on to other books including books I couldn’t get into like the Silmarrlion (sp?)
I was desperate to read books when I was in middle school-but my family didnt go to the library so I read what few books we had- which were wildly inappropriate ( story of O and the Tin Drum are two I vividly remember) I would have loved to have had books like Harry around.</p>
:)</p>