This isn't really a review to be honest, it's more like news. Although most of you must already know. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone has come out as a an illustrated book. Now it probably came out about three months ago because I went to the Making of Harry Potter in October this year for the third time and found it there and guess how much it cost? £30!
My natural reaction would probably have been 'I'm buying it anyways, it's Harry Potter and what did you expect?', but somehow I was convinced that the book would be cheaper on Amazon and I'm quite careful when it comes to my money.
Was I right in saying it was expensive? Uh, yes. It was half the price on Amazon. Then I walked into WHSmith a wonderful day and it was £15 so I bought it. For my friend. She has talked about it since we saw at the studies (she was the one who went with me) and my English teacher talks only of it. So Holly keeps on saying 'it's at the tip of my Christmas wish list', 'I wan't it so badly', 'Mum better give me that one if anything this Christmas'. So I bought it, for her. Initially it was meant as a birthday present because her b-day is on New Years Eve, but then we were gonna do a group present (I'll tell you when we've given it) so I made this into the Christmas one.
When I got home I went through every page really carefully just to look because I knew that it would take some time before I got my own copy and I was dying. Literally DYING of curiosity. It was like a piece of treasure. I handled it really gently because it has that smooth paper cover alongside with the actual binding and I kept stroking it because the letters are gold. So I bought it about three weeks ago and I've never looked again in it since. After all, it wasn't my book.
Then, last Friday I got an offer from University of Hertfordshire (that's a whole different story) and my parents took me for lunch and guess what I got? HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE ILLUSTRATED EDITION!!!!
I got my own copy. I GOT MY OWN COPY. This is major. Truly major. I was so happy. It's beautiful. I hope they come out with the rest. I hope millions around the world are so happy with it that they choose to make a second and third and fourth and fifth and sixth and seventh because I want them all and if they're just gonna be £15 each and I got the first as a gift I'll just spend... £90 on the whole series, because I can totally afford that. Not really. At the moment. But they wouldn't come out all at the same time anyways. *Desperately trying to reassure myself that I'll sometime in the future have all of them*.
Anyways, I'm crazy about it. I'm thinking that if I start reading from it to my sister maybe she'll start reading them. I started reading when I was 9. She's 9. My mum said once that if she bought it for her in Christmas she would started read it but I emphasized how much I wanted it that I think I won cause here I'm sitting with my own copy.
No comments:
Post a Comment