Harry Potter spoiling wankers

[Orang Utan]

I understand that. But at least you have a choice.
I avoided the spoiler thread. I read the spoiler on an unrelated thread.

Maybe now your Harry Potter book is ruined, you should go out and buy a proper good read?

 

[May Kasahara]

I avoided the spoiler thread. I read the spoiler on an unrelated thread.

So are the spoilers I've read here fake or not?

 

[Melinda]

Maybe now your Harry Potter book is ruined, you should go out and buy a proper good read?

Consider me told. Appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Orang Utan]

Consider me told. Appreciated. Thank you.

Try Ghostwritten by David Mitchell

 

[Melinda]

So are the spoilers I've read here fake or not?

The book comes out Saturday!
Ive honestly no idea whether the spoilers are fake or not. Sorry May

I remember Iain Lee wrecking The sixth Sense the day after it was out as well. Its so cockish!

 

[Orang Utan]

The book comes out Saturday!
Ive honestly no idea whether the spoilers are fake or not. Sorry May

I remember Iain Lee wrecking The sixth Sense the day after it was out as well. Its so cockish!

Have you read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susannah Clarke?

 

[milesy]

it was a bit mean.

it was.

 

[madzone]

Fucking hilarious! The people stating that reading HP books is childish behaving more childishly than anyone....

It'll be apple pie beds and tears before bedtime just you wait and see

 

[pogofish]

Maybe now your Harry Potter book is ruined, you should go out and buy a proper good read?

If you can't read a book for its own sake, regardless of knowing the outcome or not, what does that say about the quality of the writing?>

 

[madzone]

If you can't read a book for its own sake, regardless of knowing the outcome or not, what does that say about the quality of the writing?>

Why does it matter?

 

[PacificOcean]

No, I scorn and ridicule everything I don't like

It's true. He always picks on Enya.

 

[Dubversion]

not as often as she deserves, to be fair

 

[frogwoman]

i like harry potter, it's hardly top quality literature, but it's ok, must have taken a lot of imagination to do, and i've grown up with it now and want to see what happens in the last book.

 

[Dubversion]

must have taken a lot of imagination to do,

i disagree - to me it seems like a lot of cliches and genres fudged together with very little imagination - the main source of my dislike for them

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

If you can't read a book for its own sake, regardless of knowing the outcome or not, what does that say about the quality of the writing?>

S'exactly what crossed my mind - if HP novels are such good reading, how can they be spoilt simply because of the revelation of one dramatic event within 600+pages of material?

I say this, btw, as someone who's read ~10 pages of the 1st, then put it down and i can't remember seeing it since.

 

[T & P]

S'exactly what crossed my mind - if HP novels are such good reading, how can they be spoilt simply because of the revelation of one dramatic event within 600+pages of material?

Presumably for the same reason it would spoil any 'who dunnit' crime book or film.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

S'exactly what crossed my mind - if HP novels are such good reading, how can they be spoilt simply because of the revelation of one dramatic event within 600+pages of material?

I say this, btw, as someone who's read ~10 pages of the 1st, then put it down and i can't remember seeing it since.

TBH, when I read fiction I read the first 10 pages and the last 10 pages and then go back and read the middle. It annoys my book club friends, no end.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Presumably for the same reason it would spoil any 'who dunnit' crime book or film.

Is HP a whodunnit then?

It's a fair enough point i suppose though, although i've read crime books knowing roughly what goes on beforehand and it hasn't spoilt things tremendously.

Different strokes i suppose...

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

TBH, when I read fiction I read the first 10 pages and the last 10 pages and then go back and read the middle. It annoys my book club friends, no end.

Esp. if the book club picks the latest HP novel

SO DON'T TELL THEM THE ENDING!!!

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Esp. if the book club picks the latest HP novel

SO DON'T TELL THEM THE ENDING!!!

I doubt that. They're all elitist snobs. They're into Russian and French lit with the odd Cormac McCarthy thrown in. If its written after 1899, they probably arn't much interested. I wouldn't even admit to reading Harry Potter in their rarified company.

 

[T & P]

Incidentally, can we have the title of this thread to Harry Potter and the Spoiling Wankers?

It should have been the title of the last book. Far more catchy than the current one

 

[madzone]

I doubt that. They're all elitist snobs. They're into Russian and French lit with the odd Cormac McCarthy thrown in. If its written after 1899, they probably arn't much interested. I wouldn't even admit to reading Harry Potter in their rarified company.

I think you should suggest it as a group book?

 

[Orang Utan]

Nobody in my BG want to read The Da Vinci Code

 

[5t3IIa]

Here's a bit

Nineteen years later...

"We need new towels", Ron said as he scraped the last of the shower droplets off his body. "Anyway, I'm going to the shops, do you want anything?"

Harry sucked hard on his Silk Cut 100.

"No thanks, Darling", he said "No thanks.".

Outside, it was just possible to hear the wail of sirens through the Saturday morning bustle. It reminded Harry of owls he once knew.

"It's great living here, isn't it?" chirped Ron, with an enthusiam which seemed at odds with the peeling wallpaper and nicotine stained walls surrounding the pair.

"Yeah" said Harry, "It's magic.".

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I think you should suggest it as a group book?

No thanks. I'd rather not have a repeat of the Sophie's Choice Incident of 2003.

 

[madzone]

No thanks. I'd rather not have a repeat of the Sophie's Choice Incident of 2003.