Please humour me...

[babynick34 at yahoo.com]

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From: babynick34
Subject: Re: Please humour me...
Reply To: [Yahoo! #1811] Please humour me...
Date: 6/9/00 6:04 pm  (ET)

Hi all

>I've already noticed that most of you are women (five points to
Gryffindor!) and concluded that most of you are either parents, teachers,
writers or witches (or all of the above) and that many of you were,
like me, introduced to the books by another fan.

Ok... answers to the above first:

Women - Nope
Parents - Nope
Teachers - Not as such
Writers - Nope
Witch - Nope
Introduced by another fan - Nope


Ok... so here are my details:

Age: 25
Gender: Male
Current Occupation: Children's Retail (UK Sales Manager for Rainbow Play
Systems, Inc.)
Previous Occupations: Children's Nanny. PC Engineer. Pre-school
assistant. Nursery Worker.

How was I introduced:

July 1999... must have watched the news about POA book launch. Forgot
all about it until...

November 1999... I still nanny 2 days a week in addition to my full-time
job, so I was hunting for a Birthday present for the 8 year-old I
nanny. Went into a bookshop... saw Harry Potter and the Philosophers
Stone, and brought it.

Thought nothing about it until his Birthday came - then I read the first
chapter to him that evening at bedtime. I enjoyed it so much... next day I
went to the bookshop and brought all 3 books. That was just the beginning!

I won't bore you with the rest of the goings on since then - some of you
will know about it... some won't... it's boring stuff... legal dispute
with Warner Bros. that sort of thing.

>I'd like to know how you felt reading the books for the first time,
and when you realised this was no ordinary experience...

That was a while back now... so not sure how to answer... but it's
just that I've never been much of a reader. In fact, I was always bad
at English at school... and as my mum will tell you (if you ask her),
I've never read a 'story book' longer than a few pages, cover to cover
before I discovered the Harry Potter books.

I think it boils down to how the books encourage you to continue
reading... once you have read a chapter, it's very hard to put the
book down.

My Managing Director at work has found this out very recently... her
daughter (aged 7) was ill from school on Thursday, so she stayed home
with her - and started to read POA to her. She called me at lunchtime
to say that she loved the book!

>Also, do any other authors grab you in quite same way?

Nope... not really read books by any other authors. However, I did read
Bill Bryson's Notes from a Big Country... and I liked that, but I can't
get into another of his books.


Nick.