The Damnable Harry Potter book...
So yes I have read the entire book, the entire series and have seen all of the movie to this point. I didnt get into the books until after I got off my mission and had this month of nothingness to do and had to occupy my time with something. Well that something ended up being the first 4 books. I sat down and read the first one, kind of thought it was cutish, truly focused on a younger audience. (Book 1 took 6 hours to read cover to cover)
Well I read through Book2 and found myself liking it a little more, and then I read Book 3 and I truly saw some potential into the entire series. I mean I felt that this could go somewhere. Then I read Book 4. See I hadn't heard any of the books at that point in time, I had just begun to read them. So I was reading Book 4, and let me tell you I became disappointed. Well, I sat there I cursed. See about half way through book 4 my younger brother called to ruin the book for me, and as I finished the book I realized that the story was a cookie cutter creative writing assignment only elongated over books. Because in book 4 she starts to wind down the story to be finished by book 7, and let me tell you, I was not to pleased at that.
Well like the rest of the world practically, I waited on book 5, more for the pleasure of ruining the book for my younger brother like he had done for me for the 4th book. In an honest admission, I was offered an illegal PDF format of the book 2 days before the release of the book on newsstands, which I took. I read the entire book, and spent the next month trying to get my younger brother to talk to me on the phone (he knew my plans somehow).
So I decided that I would want to wait on book 6, because I had been disappointed at book 4 and book 5 didnt do much for me either (although I did ruin the book for a couple people). Well the 16th came and I was busy saying goodbyes to friends as I was leaving to return to Utah the next morning. I was having a good time with friends when we ended up stopping by Wal-Mart to pick up drinks and snacks for the rest of the night (we got there right at 8pm) Well my friend's girlfriend went straight for the Harry Potter books to get herself a copy. As she picked up a copy, I was like hell, I might as well have something to read on the plane.
Well, I started reading it before going to the airport and at the airport. Let me tell you I gave the time it took to read book 1, well book 6 was read cover to cover in 3.5 hours.
Now I am obligated to say, I think this book did a lot to raise my opinion of the series, but at the same time I hated the fact that I was more reading a diary of everybody's life more than being pulled into a story like i was with the first 3 books.
Oh well that is my rant on the damn HP series...