Check this out ... http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-potter-stolen,1,729349.story

Seems someone stole a truck loaded with the books. I've also seen a signed copy on E-Bay for an incredible amount.

Is this all hype, or is anyone real looking forward to the book?

I've had my copy pre-ordered at amazon.com (through SP, but of course) since the release date was announced, and I'm trying to finish the last 200 pages of my current book before HP arrives on my doorstep.

But I'm not an autograph hound and I can wait to get it legally, thank you very much. Can you imagine what the furor would be if there wasn't such a long break between the books, and Rowling had been able to capitalize on the "Harry" fervor?

Sure, I'm looking forward to reading it. Btw, here are a few links with the same content (and some more) for those who don't want to subscribe to Mat's link:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&ncid=762&e=1&u=/nm/20030617/en_nm/crime_britain_potter_dc

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030617/161/4f560.html

Thanks Tal ... didn't realize it was a subscription page (darn cookies!)

well, I shall get mine when i get the cash to do so. I am not sweating about it, even with me being such a Potter-freak every now and then.

Even thought the movies really made me think about reading the next one or not... I can't wait! My mum ordered it ages ago. There's going to be a lot of argueing in my house the next few days (after if comes out of course) ,with my sister, mum, and me all wanting to read it first.

Well, I will read it after my sister bought it, she is really into that. But I am not really looking forward to it, I think it will be nice, but nothing special.

I note that JKR is none too plussed with the exerts being published on the net and has filed a lawsuit running into millions....

As for reading the book? > not on your nellie.

J . K. Rowling is an Inkling... The Inklings were originally a group of Oxford dons who wrote Christian fiction. The most famous of them are J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. LewisThat's news to me! Just read it in the National Review (http://nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel062003.asp) .

Just some food for thought! Any comments on the rest of the material on the article?

The Dark Material stuff floored me.

:rolleyes: Great, another book where the author tries to cash in on a popular book/series by selectively picking out things that he can link to symbolisms that prove his pet theory.

Also, the Inklings were a specific group of friends/authors who regularly met and discussed each others literary works. The suggestion that she is an Inkling because of her religeous background and literary preferences is pure rubbish. Unless the author can somehow prove that Rawlings built a time machine and went back to sit in on a few meetings he is just plain out to lunch.

The Inklings were a gathering of friends -- all of them British, male, and Christian, most of them teachers at or otherwise affilitated with Oxford University, many of them creative writers and lovers of imaginative literature -- who met usually on Thursday evenings in C.S. Lewis's and J.R.R. Tolkien's college rooms in Oxford during the 1930s and 1940s for readings and criticism of their own work, and for general conversation. "Properly speaking," wrote W.H. Lewis, one of their number, the Inklings "was neither a club nor a literary society, though it partook of the nature of both. There were no rules, officers, agendas, or formal elections." An overlapping group gathered on Tuesday (later Monday) mornings in various Oxford pubs, usually but not always the Eagle and Child, better known as the Bird and Baby, between the 1940s and 1963. These were not strictly Inklings meetings, and contrary to popular legend the Inklings did not read their manuscripts in the pub.

I'm in the same Mood as Ara, I'll read it eventually, possibly when it's translated to Turkish, no need to rush and buy it AND the most important reason is CASH! I can buy a hardcover and a softcover WotC book for the same price.

I can live without it, its not like it'll be as good as any of the other much cheaper books I can get. And it will have less content than most of these anyway.

I got on the day it came out, apparently, Harry Potter is not a must by in Singapore.

I'll likely get it next year when it comes out in paperback, probably as a gift if it is released in time for my birthday or father's day. :) That's how I got 2-4 anyway.

I may get impatient though and see if I can get it from the library.

I picked it up at midnight on the day it came out. I didn't wait in line or anything for it either.... the grocery store I worked at just happened to have it in and didn't advertise, so there was no one waiting to get it. I was very pleased with my stroke of good luck.

I just finished it, and now I can't wait for #6! :roll:

Well Rallymama, you should only have to wait another two years if she writes at the same speed as she did for the 5th.

I finished the book last night. Great book, better than the other four IMO.

I read somewhere(I think Time magazine) that she's already begun writing the sixth book.

I don't see how she'll be able to make the adventures of a sixteen year old boy into a book suitable for children though.