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andrewducker) wrote2003-06-21 09:30 am
andrewducker) wrote2003-06-21 09:30 am
Such a Fanboy
8:15 - I hear the distinct noise of post dropping through the letterbox. I'd been asleep moments earlier, but my senses are hyper-sharp today and I was woken by the tread of postman's feet as he came up the stairs. I turn over, tell myself not to be so stupid, and try to go back to sleep. After all, if it had been in the delivery then they;d have knocked on the door - there's no way it would fit through the letter box.
8:18 - give up, wander to the post box and stir the few letter there with my feet. All for Erin. Large parcels obvious by their absence. Wander back to be via toilet.
8:30 - woken by the front door buzzer. None of my friends are ever likely to arrive at this hour - there's only one thing it can be. I snag a towel on my journey twixt bed and door. I press the buzzer and tie the towel swiftly around my waist - no need to reward the postman with a towel falling off.
The Box is large - this book is even bigger than the last one. It says HP on the outside and I have to assume that this is to warn the Royal Mail what lies within. 500,000 copies are being sent out across the country and special vans are being laid on to help the postal service with this. I pity the poor postman who has to carry a dozen of these parcels to a street of readers.
9:15 - 42 pages in, two chapters down. Harry's different - his whole world has aged again - he's 15 now, vandals roam his suburban streets, doubt and angst straddle him, adults and friends both seem less of a comfort to him. I remember these years. 724 pages to go. I have to tell someone. Erin is asleep, so I tell you.
8:18 - give up, wander to the post box and stir the few letter there with my feet. All for Erin. Large parcels obvious by their absence. Wander back to be via toilet.
8:30 - woken by the front door buzzer. None of my friends are ever likely to arrive at this hour - there's only one thing it can be. I snag a towel on my journey twixt bed and door. I press the buzzer and tie the towel swiftly around my waist - no need to reward the postman with a towel falling off.
The Box is large - this book is even bigger than the last one. It says HP on the outside and I have to assume that this is to warn the Royal Mail what lies within. 500,000 copies are being sent out across the country and special vans are being laid on to help the postal service with this. I pity the poor postman who has to carry a dozen of these parcels to a street of readers.
9:15 - 42 pages in, two chapters down. Harry's different - his whole world has aged again - he's 15 now, vandals roam his suburban streets, doubt and angst straddle him, adults and friends both seem less of a comfort to him. I remember these years. 724 pages to go. I have to tell someone. Erin is asleep, so I tell you.
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Not even about page 160. Which nearly gave me a heart attack.
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If you don't define those as spoilers, I certainly do.
Bad man. Cuts please - I won't have a chance to read this for a bit and I really don't want to know!
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And "the character's grown up some more" isn't a spoiler either, in my opinion - the whole point of the Harry Potter books is that he changes each year as he grows up.
As I said two days ago:
But... the first one is obviously aimed at 11 year olds (Harry's age), the second at 12 year olds, the third at 13 year olds, and so on.
They get darker and more complex as they go aong.
I'll try to LJ cut more stuff in the future, but I really don't see how "Harry is now 15, and behaving like a 15 year old" is telling you anything you didn't already know.
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But if you don't feel that's the case, then don't bother putting in spoiler tags, I'll just skip your posts till i've read the book too. I suspect I'll be doing this with a lot of people for a while.
There are some things I really don't want to know what's happening in, and other things I just don't give a toss about. But, the ones I do care about are all things I want to remain completely blank about before I enjoy them.
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Nothing heart-stopping happens on page 160
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I was thinking of the bottom of page 159.
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