Harry Potter…..

With no thanks to Amazon (sorry E.), I went out and picked up the final installment of Harry Potter on Saturday. The book, which is entitled Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, has been a long time coming. I have a few friends who are in the process of reading it, so no spoilers here. That being said, I'll be curious to get your feedback on what you thought of the book. I do have a favorite line from it which I will be happy to share once I hear back from the folks whom I know are reading it.

It's really quite phenomenal, if you think about it, what kind of impact that the Harry Potter series has had on society. How many books can transcend generations simultaneously? So a friend of Marc's mom was reading it (she's probably around my folks age), I was reading it and the daughter of a close friend of ours was reading it (she is 10) – all on Saturday. I've heard of classics being handed down through generations (i.e., Little Women, Great Expectations – books like that), but to have multiple generations excited to read the same book at the same time – that speaks a lot to JK Rowling and the cultural phenomenon that is Harry Potter.

Marc – FYI. According to Barnes and Noble's page on JK Rowling, if you like her work, you'll also like Neil Gaiman. Interesting.