Word: pottered
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...seconds past the wizarding hour of midnight last Saturday, the most annoying and unnecessary marketing campaign in publishing history finally delivered the goods. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Press; 734 pages; $25.95) would have sold millions of copies had its U.S. and British publishers simply dumped them in bookstores, unannounced, and then got out of the way as word of mouth spread among stampeding Pottermaniacs. That is pretty much the way the first three books about the boy wizard so phenomenally caught fire among young readers and then their parents...
...guard a title that was rich before/To gild refined gold, to paint the lily," wrote Shakespeare, "Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." True, but this is a new millennium, and the gilding of Harry Potter seems to have worked. The carefully built-up demand produced long lines of customers and the curious at the many U.S. bookstores open for business at the crack of last Saturday. Some of these settings seemed surreal. At Books of Wonder in lower Manhattan, local TV and print reporters swarmed among the expectant book buyers. "The A.P. has already hit us," said Dave Lambert...
...worth remembering right about here, that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is not a Hollywood summer blockbuster, although its weekend grosses will probably be announced in a breathless press release. It is a book, a really long book, with no moving images, sound track or joysticks. Reading it or listening to someone else read it aloud requires a modicum of silence, the exact antithesis of all the bells and whistles and clarions that heralded its arrival...
Thank you for the article about Harry Potter. It truly is an amazing series of books. Until last night, I never thought I would ever find myself sitting in a bookstore for 2 hours waiting for a "children's" book. Yet there I was, 32 years old, laughing along with all the other adults waiting for the book. I tried to resist and wait for it, but I just couldn't wait. I had to have it. Now it's going to be a lost weekend as I spend all my time reading this huge 4th edition. Puffy eyes here...
...enjoyed your comments about "Harry Potter." As a fifth grade teacher, I regularly witness my students frothing at the mouth when their names are called in the school library's weekly "Potter" drawing. I hope the book series has the staying power of Pokemon and the WWF... - Devik