Harry Potter is the $H!T!!!!! Holy crap!

So I have been sitting on my butt, watching youtube videos and talking to five people at once on facebook. My real social life may be dusty and non-existant, but on the internetz, I'm pretty social. Someday it'll probably switch itself, but since the winter weather is making me live like a hermit, I'm adjusting to this. It's like this every year. It doesn't bother me much either. I am pretty adaptive to anything over time. I am not once of those people who HAVE to be surrounded by people and be talking loudly constantly for attention. I am just one of those quiet people who enjoys the sound of silence and my own presence in the room. Other people just make me nervous. I can also feel their emotions, which stresses me out. My sense of empathy is so strong too. People make me crazy. When I am alone or just with one or two friends, I am completely normal. People also make me very neurotic. Damn it!

So I ran out of things to do last night, and I NEEDED to be entertained, so I looked through my bigass library of books. I have read them all several times, and nothing seemed to pop out and bite me in the ass. I remembered that I had Harry Potter on in the background, but I watched the movies so many times, it was boring. Then it hit me, I SHOULD READ THE BOOKS! The last time I read a Harry Potter book was when it first came out. I was eleven years old, the same age as the protagonist. I barely remembered reading the book and I saw the movie over a hundred times. I thought, hey what the heck? Books are usually better than the movies. Let's see if the movie really did stay loyal to the book. So I opened the Socerer's Stone, and didn't close it until 4am. It was THAT good. I couldn't get my eyes off it.

Now it has been a while since I have found a book worth reading for more than 5 hours a day. The last book was Stephen King's Pet Sematary. This book sucked me in from the first paragraph. Even though I've seen the movies sooooo many times, especially the first one (it's my favorite one!) the book felt like a fresh breath of air; like I haven't read anything this good in about a decade, which is so true! This book made me more happy and excited than any other book I've read. It is WAY better than when I read Twilight for the first time. It had adventure! It was funny! It took me away to a wonderful, magical world far better than real life. And it also had a nostalgic feel of when I use to go to middle school and all the stupid adventures I had with my friends. There was no teen angst, like in Twilight. No love, or mushy romance. Just pure adventure and fantasy, which is a blessing for depressed, cynical people like me who hate the world. This book made life beautiful for me, if that makes any sense. If a book has an impact on someone like that, then you know it's a really good book. I get the same feeling from music and movies and sometimes video games. That good feeling that life is awesome. That there is adventure out there. That life can change dramatically for the better. That evil can be conquered, and friendship will always be found in the weirdest places.

So I am sticking to this series to the very end. I am hooked! The happy nostalgic feelings keep pouring in with every page I read. I forgot how much I loved this story until last night. What a wonderful feeling! I can't get over it!

Well I am off to Hogwarts! Then back to reality with walking the dog and cleaning. Then back to the Griffindor common room. Heehee. I am such a nerd and a loser! And I am lovin' every minute of it!