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I'm Cheap.
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:30 am
by balon!
Bought the first six in a box set on Amazon for 27 bucks. WOO HOO!
Now I can join the rest of you in here without spoiler danger. After all, I havent read them in years.
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:54 am
by Menolly
:::patting self on back for suggesting via IM to Balon that he look online for them instead of in bookstores:::
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:03 am
by balon!
Menolly wrote::::patting self on back for suggesting via IM to Balon that he look online for them instead of in bookstores:::
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:55 pm
by Seafoam Understone
For the upcoming dissection (o-boy o-boy o-boy) I've bought the soft cover of the first book, and will get others as the dissection goes along. I hope to get a 7 hard-bound set later on. It'll break me but I've come to love the series.
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:34 pm
by Cameraman Jenn
I'm planning on the fancy box set. You can actually pre-order it on Amazon to be shipped in September.
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:40 pm
by Menolly
Fancy box set? Of all seven books? Where?
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:06 pm
by Seafoam Understone
Menolly wrote:Fancy box set? Of all seven books? Where?
Harry Potter Boxset Books 1-7
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by J. K. Rowling (Author)
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Edit: Thanks Bunches Menolly!!
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:46 pm
by Menolly
Wow!
I now know what I am suggesting to my sister to get her nephew for
Hanukkah!!
I know he'll be getting the CDs of
DH from her for his birthday. Good thing he'll have finished reading the book long before his birthday comes. He loves listening to Jim Dale's characterizations, and usually reads along with the CDs once he has both.
YVW, Seafoam.
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:50 pm
by Cameraman Jenn
It's pretty cool. I'll probably just stash that and keep rereading my old tattered copies.
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:58 pm
by Menolly
*nodding*
Although when we do begin the dissection in September I need a newish copy of SS/PS. When I read a chapter a night to Beorn as his bedtime story when he was in kindergarten, I bought the paperback edition. That copy has been long gone due to being lovingly reread by a kindergartener-third grader (I think it lasted that long). I don't think we ever replaced it. Although the others have been hardcover first issues as Beorn had to have his copies right away as they came out, so we have the rest.
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:41 am
by balon!
The set came in the mail today. WOO!
All I gotta do now is start.
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 3:25 pm
by sindatur
My HCamber of Secrets fell apart on me, and I had to replace it with a hardbound. Still have the paperback copy of SS/PS that I got at the flea market for $1 that started my obsession (And the rest were all purchased as Hardbound, before paperbacks were available)
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 3:33 pm
by Menolly
Remind me, Balon. You have or have not read the books before?
sindatur, yep. That's pretty much my situation. SS/PS was a long fallen apart paperback, the rest are all hardbound purchased as soon as they came out. However, Beorn just told me Azkabhan had lost half it's pages, so I'll need to get a new copy of that, and GoF has been missing a while.
*sigh*
I really should just purchase that collector's set, but for now I'll settle for paperbacks, if I can find them. Perhaps FIL will get the collector's set as a Hanukkah gift for Beorn if I point him in that direction when he asks what Beorn wants...
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:56 am
by balon!
Menolly wrote:Remind me, Balon. You have or have not read the books before?
Erm... in a manner of speaking. Heh.
I read them when they first came out when I was in the Fifth grade, and then when each of them came out, but since then? Nope.
It's all fresh.
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:26 am
by Menolly
Cool. I am looking forward to reading your comments on each book as you read them. Sort of what I've been doing with the DT cycle over in the King forum.