I still remember the day, when the last book of Harry Potter's series was released world wide. Television news channel, news paper and the other news medium gave special time and attention to the last Harry Potter's novel. I still remember the popular book houses in Chennai made announcements on making advance booking of the book.
The day arrived; the book was released in all the book houses across the world. The news paper carried photographs of children with their parents standing in long queue in front of the book stores. I found this, a little crazy, what is in a book, why people are wasting time and money on it?.
Even this book as its previous novel “Harry Potter and Half blooded prince" was a great success. And subsequently the last series of the movie was also released and it was also house packed in all the theatres it was released. The Harry Potter mania subsided and I removed it from my brain. This happened between 2007 and 2008.
As I had mentioned in my previous post about my second affair, My brain started to thrive for reading books of different genres , fiction, non fiction religious etc....
I was reading a non fiction book, it is a self development book and I wanted to read a fiction or a fantasy one along with it so that I don’t reach the monotony. I decided to read Harry Potter books, I went to the book store and found the first novel of Harry Potter series, It was "Harry Potter and Philosopher’s stone", I wanted to buy but I did'nt as it was heavily priced. I did nt want to buy the pirated books either, so I was searching for it in the used book stores , but could nt find it. I left the idea of buying the book for now, thought I would save some money and buy it later.
One day on my way to home from the railway station, I saw a lending library, I went to enquire about the charges and the kind of books they have stocked. I saw the Harry Potter books that I was searching for, I asked the librarian whether he can sell it he said he can and took out 5 - 6 copies of the same book, I was choosy as I found the books either in poor condition or it looked very old. In theses copies of books, I found the Sorcerer's stone, this is also the first series of Harry Potter, this was released in US and Philosopher’s stone in other parts of the world.
I bargained for the book and got it for a reasonable deal.
Though I bought this, it took almost one month forme to start reading it as I was reading something else in between.
I started it yesterday, finished the 1st chapter and almost going finish the second one and I find it interesting.
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