A quiet weekend....not a sound to be heard

It would be interesting to take a poll of how many people were reading over the weekend. HP 7 arrived and we ventured to the city to see the fun and frolics..of which there really was none by 11.00am. Every one was home with the latest tome or curled up somewhere devouring it. Kids were reading it in the bookshop whilst parents browsed, I sat an read the first chapter whilst 2IC took the terrorists to the toilet, grownups read it in coffee outlets ( sorry to the guy behind us a Gloria Jeans who left after the umpteen stage whisper of "he's reading Harry Potter, it's for kids!!!", all in all it was a bit of a non event.. apart from the suitable attired Dymocks staff noting much about to see. I also bought Eragon, yes, I know it's also a kids book but I saw parts of the film the other night and sort of thought it would be a good read and unlike Rowlings he wrote Eragon at 15. I find that interesting in itself.
HP 7 is the sort of book you have to read, having read the others and enjoyed them for the most part but it is hardly literature in the realm that Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Plath, Green, Grass, et.al are deemed. But you have to wonder if any one had the savvy, marketing nous and ideas of the guru who thought up the embargo idea and the printing at different printers and all the hooray that went along with it..if any other book would make the splash the HP series had in the book world.