It is 12.45am on a cold Highveld night, and I am driving my car to Sandton City shopping mall. In the passanger seat is my 10 year old daughter...
We reach the bookstore. There is large crowd gathered around the tills, eating pizza and chocolates. At 1am sharp (12am GMT), there is a one minute countdown over the loadspeakers.
Five, four, three, two, one, Launch. Suddenly Bookstore staff dressed in wizzarding outfits crack open boxes of books. Grabbing our copy (and forking out 200 Rands (about $30), we race home.
I read my daughter the first chapter... of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince... hmmm... and its off to a cracking good start.
I close the book. I kiss her goodnight. I leave the room...
"Dad?"
"Yes, darling?"
"Where do you think you are going with my book?!?"
Ah, well, there's nothing for it. I'll just play some chess... and go back later when she's asleep....
Originally posted by GatecrasherYou're lucky...my mum bought one copy, and started reading it while I saw Sin City...so I have to wait until I can get it, or buy my own copy...which is dumb, coz then we'd have 2 copies in the house.
It is 12.45am on a cold Highveld night, and I am driving my car to Sandton City shopping mall. In the passanger seat is my 10 year old daughter...
We reach the bookstore. There is large crowd gathered around the tills, eating pizza and chocolates. At 1am sharp (12am GMT), there is a one minute countdown over the loadspeakers.
Five, four, three, t ...[text shortened]... there's nothing for it. I'll just play some chess... and go back later when she's asleep....
Originally posted by mosquitorespectGeorge RR Martin's A song of Fire and Ice is a good series also. But not child appropriate.
Potter, Schmotter! Condescending rubbish. Films are good though...
Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is the way forward. Real books. Then if you live in the UK you can go and see the plays at the National Theatre, assuming they put them on again this year...😀
Originally posted by mosquitorespectThe Pullman was great, but so is Harry Potter. They definitely move along quicker than His Dark Materials. The first two were great, but you really had to read the third to bring it all together and that one kind of dragged.
Potter, Schmotter! Condescending rubbish. Films are good though...
Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is the way forward. Real books. Then if you live in the UK you can go and see the plays at the National Theatre, assuming they put them on again this year...😀