Harry Potter

[RoadRunner]

Is anybody excited about the new Harry Potter book that is coming out? It is called Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

[RoadRunner]

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/6097408.htmIt goes on sale at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. Scholastic is printing 8.5 million copies and will spend $3 million to $4 million on marketing -- expect a bombardment of billboards, bumper stickers and buttons. After all, they have 8.5 million copies to sell.

Online booksellers have taken more than 1 million advance orders. That's nearly double the record-setting totals for the last book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, published in 2000.

Order of the Phoenix, fifth in the series, is going to cost $29.99 -- an astounding figure for a ''children's'' book -- but it's a lot of book: 896 pages. It'll also be widely discounted.

But what we want to know, what we're dying to know, is: Is it any good? What happens? And, most importantly, does somebody we know and love . . . die?

[RoadRunner]

WOW!! 8.5 million copies. That makes Hillary's book sound like a failure.

What do you think of the $30 price tag?

[Grimey]

I've never read any of the books. I enjoyed the movies, however. I have friends who have pre-ordered and are eagerly awaiting them.

[Tybalt0125]

I read two of the books and I enjoyed reading them.
But I didn't order the new book. :)

[jamesglewisf]

My wife is one of the big fans. She pre-ordered the book and has read even the companion books.