Harry Potter (no spoilers)

[andrewducker]

Finished it.  Was the best one so far, her writing style has improved vastly as she's made the transition from good short book (Azkaban) via rather padded longer books (Goblet and Phoenix) to good long book.

I managed to completely avoid spoilers for 5 days before today.  And then, with 60 pages to go, I was walking past a bunch of chavs on the way home, one of whom saw what I was reading and shouted "Massive Spoiler" at me.  Fortunately the ending still worked for me, and although I didn't cry it was rather moving.

Comments

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Oh that is shit!! (the chavs)
Do I get it now? :-)

[darkoshi]

So that's one of the drawbacks of reading while walking. :)

[andrewducker]

Yes. As official "fastest reader I know" you do.

Spoiler

[wordofblake.livejournal.com]

I would classify "Fortunately the ending still worked for me, and although I didn't cry it was rather moving" as a spoiler. I'm in no desperate rush to read the book as I missed the last one. But just so you know. You spoilered me in a post marked no spoliers!

[nameandnature]

Chavs can read?

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

i finished iit his afternoon and blubbed like a baby, having successfully avoided all spoilers

[azalemeth.livejournal.com]

One thing that I'd love to be able to know is where did s- er, the Half-Blood Prince - get his info from in the book?


How exactly do you discover to crush the....thign...with the side of a silver dagger, or to add one anti-clockwise stir every seven clockwise ones?

And on Sectum Sempra, or whatever it is, sectum is latin for carve/chop/cut/slice and so on, so you have a bit of a clue there :). It's strange that they don't teach everyone latin as well...

[andrewducker]

One assumes there was a lot of experimentation :->

And yeah - most of the spell namess are based on latin roots, but one assumes there's more to it than saying a word and waving a wand, or they could, as you say, just distribute latin dictionaries.