[Sir Exxon]

<font color="gold">I've heard that it comes the 21st of June, in 6 days.

Some cool facts that I found at another forum who again found it on CNN.com:</font>

HOW LONG ARE THEY? "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" will clock in at 255,000 words, according to its publishers. Here are the lengths of other literary works: - The Bible: 774,000 (Old Testament 593,000, New Testament 181,000) - "Hawaii," James Michener: 500,000 - "David Copperfield," Charles Dickens: 357,000 - "Wuthering Heights," Emily Bronte: 116,000 - "Treasure Island," Robert Louis Stevenson: 68,000 - "Julius Caesar," William Shakespeare: 19,000 - Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln: 272 - "The Cat in the Hat," Dr. Seuss: 237 The new book is 38 chapters and 255,000 words, more than one-third longer than the fourth book, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," the publishers said in a press release. Given that "Goblet" clocked in at 752 pages in its American edition, this means that Book 5 is approaching James Michener -- or Dickens -- lengths. (The publishers apparently will reduce the size of the type; the new book is going to be 768 pages, they say. At least it will be in Britain, where "Goblet of Fire" ran 636 pages.) Michener's "Hawaii," for example, was a brain-fogging, wrist-breaking 500,000 words. However, eager readers who gobbled up "Goblet" will probably be unfazed by another 60,000 words -- indeed, it's probably a bonus. "

<font color="gold">I hope it'll be a good read. 38 chapters ad 255,000 words is a bit risky by Rowling, though, if you ask me.</font>

[ 06-15-2003, 08:27 AM: Message edited by: Sir Exxon ]