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Wow, just for a book.

Insane.

I wouldn't say it's "just a book"
It's one of the only, actully good pieces of literature today.
A good piece of literature is hard to come by these days, and when you find some, you should treasure it.

What I think is "Insane" is the fact, people don't take the time to READ, or try to understand what literature is.

-Agrees-

I liked the HP books well enough..but not enough to make such a fuss.

I work at a department store, and we didn't have a midnight party or anything like that.
We only got one case of DH, and we still have most of our copies left.

I guess small-town Canadians don't care about Harry Potter?

Sounds like our bookstore. I haven't finished mine yet... emo

or you could just tap your heels together and do it the easy way...

You know... I'm going to stick with my 1968 copy of the Sherlock holmes chronicles. And my Lord of the Rings. And King Arthur. >.<

It's amazing how people get all fannish over these things. But I'm with everyone else. It's just a book. Even if I was a big fan of the series, I'd wait until next month to buy a copy when there'll be plenty and no one cares. If you love the books great, but goddamn, that's just craziness.

Glinda, understand I'm not putting down the books. I don't think anyone here meant too, either. We're just stating our opinion that it seems like a bit much fuss over a book. It's not like a movie that will be in theatres three weeks then straight to DVD. It's a book. It will still be on the shelves in three weeks. Three months. Three years. FOREVER. And furthermore, in three months I bet it'd be discounted. *is a really cheap person* gonk

If it's worth it to you to be up past midnight at Wal-mart of all places to be one of the first people to get your hands on it, that's fine. Its your time and your money. But not everyone chooses to do so. That's fine as well.

Hah, try *working* in a bookshop on Harry Potter night. razz It's madness!

We sold more than 150 copies in like 30 minutes. We had to have someone manning the door to stop a mad rush. Despite the rain the queue was down the street and around the corner and some people had even been there since 2pm. >O<

I was on the Unpaid pre orders stand with another girl. We had paid preorders, unpaid preorders and unpaid unordered stands which all went to the till. The bookshop was full all the time from midnight to 1ish by which time everyone had rushed in and gone. We gave out free pens and little books by various authors as well as the occasional voucher and poster, it was very nice. ^^

Unfortunately for us, there's a bar down the street from our shop so we had the occasion drunk coming in and acting like us bookshop staff all PERSONALLY know Harry Potter himself and it's like a complete mystery as to why he isn't there to celebrate the book with us himself in full hogwarts garb.

We also had another drunken man come up to the unpaid preorder stand, he was very obviously drunk and possibly high. I was like "Unpaid preoder?" He rolled his head on his neck and slurred out a yes, I could tell he was drunk but went along with it, so I asked his name and he rolls his head again and says Sharp, pointing to the name on the list. Myself and the other girl are unsure of what to do, so we cross his name off and hand him a book. He begins to amble his way to the till, but then sets off for the door. Luckily we managed to get the attention of the doormen before he happily walked off with a free copy. xD