Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix June 21st

[thatdarncat]

Millions of fans of Harry Potter worldwide will get their hands on his latest adventure when JK Rowling's fifth book about the young magician is released on 21 June.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be released on a Saturday so that young fans do not have to skip school to buy it on its first day.

The fifth volume of the Potter series will be 38 chapters and 255,000 words - a third longer than the last book.

(warning, two very small non spoiling excerpts for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2661409.stm'

edit: Please, no spoilers in this thread, start your own if you want to (and in the proper forum too )

 

[Wicht]

Cool - I was just wondering last night when the fifth book was coming out.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Woo hoo! About time! This of course means that the speculation for who will be playing any new characters will begin around...oooh...22nd June or so...

 

[Jack Daniel]

A third longer?!? If Rowling keeps things up at this rate, book 7 will be longer than the Bible!

 

[thatdarncat]

A third longer?!? If Rowling keeps things up at this rate, book 7 will be longer than the Bible!

And this is a problem why?

 

[Crothian]

A third longer then Goblet of Fire, so it'll be around 1000 pages? That's a good sized book. It was a nice long wait and hopefully it will be worth it.

 

[Oni]

This makes me happy, I've been eagerly awaiting next book. Now I know exactly when I have to wait to.

 

[Number47]

Sigh. How long until the softcover, then? We have the books in softcover and I don't want to mix soft and hardcover. Do you recall that it took a lot longer than the industry standard of 1 year for goblet of fire to hit softcover? I think we'll buy the hardcover for my mother in law, then borrow it.

 

[thatdarncat]

at this rate, she'll be writing longer books than Robert Jorden

 

[Mr Fidgit]

I think we'll buy the hardcover for my mother in law, then borrow it.

or read it first...?