As I've mentioned before, I'm not an early adopter - especially when it comes to cultural revolutions. I'm the one who, were I alive in the 60s, would have still been wearing poodle skirts and saddle shoes not caring that the rest of the world wasn't even wearing clothes.
But sometimes I'm astounded at the perils of being a late adopter when it comes to pop culture. I finished book two in the Harry Potter series last weekend, with great intentions of rushing out for book three. The problem is - book three is nowhere to be found. I've looked in four bookstores and my local library, and no one has book three. They have books one and two and four and five, but not book three.
I'm beginning to wonder if I'm missing something - are there a large contingency of readers who just decided to jump on the tail end of the Harry Potter bandwagon, and we all read at the same speed? Is something in book six connected to book three, so all the people who have read both have to go back and read book three to refresh themselves on something they may have missed? Was book three printed as a limited edition?
I'm going to have to purchase it on Amazon. Not that I mind - it's cheaper than purchasing it in the store anyway. The problem is that now I've discovered what the rest of the world has been raving about for seven years, I'm impatient. I want to read it now, not later. And I'm too cheap to pay for express shipping.
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