22 Jun 2003
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Hoping for a repeat of three years ago, I stolled into my local bookstore around 11:55 pm Friday to pick up the new Harry Potter book. However, this time the entire store was packed. I waited in line for 50 minutes and got one of the last of the 300 copies they had in stock. The next day I found out Walmart put it on sale at 11pm for $2 cheaper.
But is the book any good? I think I’m more aware this time of the limits imposed by the young adult novel format. I wanted to slap Harry upside the head for being such a whiny little brat throughout the book. But then an amazing amount of backstory exposition was squeezed into the last chapter, so I’m now of course eagerly awaiting the next novel.
P.S. – why the hell is the original novel being released in Latin? What next, Esperanto?
I wanted to slap Harry upside the head for being such a whiny little brat throughout the book.
He’s fifteen. They’re all like that. (Well, almost all.)
As for the Latin … well, if I were in high school and required to take Latin for four years (like several of my friends were at Jesuit High School in New Orleans), I’d be fairly desperate for some reading material that wasn’t written fifteen centuries ago.
Esperanto is probably not next, but I wouldn’t be surprised by a Klingon edition.
Chuck | 23 Jun 2003