A Touch of Magic
Posted by: Denelle
Harry Potter mania continues to sweep not only the country with a record breaking 8.3 million copies of The Deathly Hallows selling during the first 24 hours the book was available.
Harry Potter mania continues to sweep not only the country with a record breaking 8.3 million copies of The Deathly Hallows selling during the first 24 hours the book was available. That's 5,000 copies a minute.
The final installment in the series far outsold the previous book - The Half-Blood Prince - which sold a mere (lol) 2 million copies during its first 24 hours. Bloomsbury, the UK publisher of the series, announced that the book had sold 3 million copies during the first 24 hours in the UK.
"This weekend kids and adults alike are sitting on buses, in the park, on airplanes and in restaurants reading 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.' The conversations the readers have been waiting to have for 10 years have just begun."I finished reading the book last night around 7 p.m. and I was overwhelmed by all of the emotion that she managed to pack into this final 700 + pages. Anyone who has followed this series will be delighted with how not only Harry but the entire cast of kids who've been a part of Harry's life for the last seven years really come into their own.
People may not agree with me but I see a lot of parallels between Rowling's story of good versus evil and the transition from child to adult and the same themes in the works of J.R.R. Tolkein and C.S. Lewis.
"When I closed the book I was overjoyed and devastated — overjoyed at the story, and the way it had played out, but devastated that the tale was complete," she said. "It did feel like a bereavement, like it was saying farewell to a long-trusted friend."
I couldn't agree more.
I went right to the last chapter and epilogue. I couldn't help myself. What a great story.
Posted by
Don |
Tue Jul 24, 08:57:00 AM 2007