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I will never forget reading this book. It was available the weekend before my youngest daughter was born. I picked it up at the library that day (I was lucky enough to put it on hold early), and started reading. I read off and on the next couple of days, between getting ready for the new baby, and taking care of my then 3 year old daughter. That Tuesday, the 24th of June I went into labor and read HP between contractions until I couldn't concentrate anymore. So I threw it into my bag for the hos
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Imagine if you will...it's almost midnight at the Border's Book Store. The place is filled to capacity with children of both genders in all sizes, shapes, and colours dressed in pointy hats, black robes, round glasses. And then there is me, a grown lady, wandering around with tears streaming down my cheecks. It was the most beautiful spectacle I had ever seen. Hundreds of kids waiting eagerly for a BOOK!!! Not a toy, or a game, or some trinket made in a China, but a BOOK, and big book at that! W
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From the art work on the cover to the last page inside this is a dark and scary novel. The longest of the HP books, it is an exhausting read but well worth the time. If Book 4 introduces Harry to the costs of his destiny, then Book 5 teaches Harry the truth behind it. Watching Harry struggle with the loss of what little innocence he had left takes this book to "literature."
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I just re-read this in preperation for the final book, and I have to say I enjoyed it much than I did either of the first two times I read it. I'm going to re-read book 6 after I give myself a palette (sp?) cleansing book or two, so I'm curious to see if I like it better than the first time, too.
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December 2005
June 1, 2007
