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A new book by JK Rowling? Can't wait! Reading the beginning and end of this thread, a few comments:
-I will buy it at whatever halfway reasonable price point. Of course I won't buy it at a crazy price like say $100 U.S., but $20 U.S. sounds reasonable enough to me for something new and probably very hotly anticipated by many. In fact, I'll probably even pre-order it and I rarely do so; the last book I ever pre-ordered was...lol, HP7. I have no idea if I'll like it but I enjoyed HP so much that I'm willing and excited to give her first non-HP book a chance.
-The "walking around in the woods" part of HP7 that some of you don't like was my favourite part of the book and one of my favourite parts of the last few books, and the resulting film (HP7.1) was one of my favourite of the entire cannon.
-I put off reading HP for years despite some of my less-bibliophilic friends loving them and encouraging me to. Finally I gave in around the fifth book's release time and tried it...and then devoured them. They may not be the "best-written" compared to say, Tolstoy, but not much is, and they weren't trying to be. In fact, it's obvious from the first two that the series was originally intended to be much more juvenile and shorter than it turned out. But the series and writing has a magic to it that is enchanting, to me at least, and to many, many others.
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