Harry Potter, at last!

I hate to say it but I'm a Harry Potter fanatic. I know that Harry Potter is supposed to be for kids, well, adolescents at least but I've just been engrossed in the story. I finally, this past week, finished the seventh and final installment. It was phenomenal. I don't think it could've been written any better. I know that there are those out there that would disagree but I was rivetted from first to last and everywhere in between(ask my wife). I dare not put anything on this blog about the story so that nobody(including my wife) who hasn't found time to read it yet will see any spoilers, no matter how mild. I take comfort in the fact that I have many friends around my age that also have the same attitude toward these books. Some very close friends of ours bought the book and spent 27 hours, almost straight through, reading it. It's hard not to when you've been waiting over two years for it to come out. There's not many other books you can think of that you knew would be written but had to wait this long to actually speed through its pages. This will probably turn into one of those annual series for me. I have read all of the books, except for the last one, more than once and have read the longest of the seven in more than one language. It's one of those stories that you don't really seem to get tired of. Another friend of mine told me recently that he feels the same way about the Lord of the Rings trilogy and reads those every year. I can also compare it with the Chronicles of Narnia which my wife and I both read within the last year and plan to read them again in the future. Congratulations to J.K. Rowling for having such a great imagination and being able to share it in a way that has encouraged so many young people to read again!