I did find it amusing that there was this big media surge about the book's first day of release and... not that many people actually bought it in shops. (Granted, it's storming up the pre-release charts, but it's certainly not the phenomenon that the Harry Potter series was.) I admire that Rowling has pretty much completely departed from her previous works, but I probably won't be buying it any time soon. For one, I have no time to read fiction, but I was never the biggest fan of her writing in general, and from the reviews that I've read, they're not saying it's a masterpiece or anything. Eh... whatevs.