Are you just wild about Harry?

[TechBear_Seattle]

The next and final Harry Potter book comes out on Saturday.

[AllegroRondo]

1. I'll be at the midnight release party

Its not for me, its for my 13yo daughter!

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. Just keep telling yourself that

:toast:

I've got it on order, and my local independent book seller is having a party. I will probably wait until Saturday morning, though.

[AllegroRondo]

4. She has first dibs on it

So I probably wont be able to read it until Monday.

[Orsino]

2. The bookstore next to my office may have no unreserved copies...

...but I'll stop in at the Kroger on my way to work Saturday.

[Tyler Durden]

5. I would prefer a tone-deaf tenor singing the "Tom Bombadil" song 24 hrs straight.

And for those of us who know our Tolkein well, that TRULY is the low point of the Ring Trilogy.

[TechBear_Seattle]

6. A much misunderstood character and scene

Not to hijack my own thread, but the whole point of the Tom Bombadil scene is to explain why the Ring was so dangerous: it fed on a person's desires, reinforcing them and so turning it evil. Tom was able to put on the Ring and not vanish, then toss it back to Frodo as if it were nothing more than a curious looking turnip, because he had everthing his heart could possibly desire already; the ring had nothing to latch on to. Hobbits were largely immune from its influence because they in general were contented with what they had (Smeagol was greed from the beginning, which is how he got ensnared.) This scene should be contrasted with Gandalf's and Galadriel's desperate desire for the Ring and their only slightly more desperate desire not to let the Ring sink its hooks into them, and how Boromir stole the Ring and freed himself from its grasp only through his stronger sense of duty.

But yes, Tom's song does not rank as Tolkein's best poetry. And thanks for the f-ing earworm, I will have that song running around my head for the rest of the morning.

[Tyler Durden]

7. No cover charge: mine is Aretha Frankin singing "Who's Zoomin' Who?"

Not a bad song to dance to, but a horribly repetitious earworm.

[bigwillq]

8. I could care less

about anything Potter related. I never read any of the books and I tried to watch one of the movies but after 20 minutes, I shut it off.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

9. My bumper sticker reads: Republicans for Voldemort

[WindRavenX]

10. already have it

NT