Check connie! I for one would love to see you here for the first round. I ordered a used one for $2.50, but it has been 12 days and I still haven't got it. The seller promises it is in the mail. Pacing.
Mal: Does she understand that? River: She understands. She doesn't comprehend.
'Objects In Space'
The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration
This thread is a focused discussion group. Please see the first post below for the current topic and upcoming book discussions. While natter will inevitably happen, we encourage you to treat this like a virtual book club and try to keep your posts in that spirit.
By consensus, this thread is reopened specifically to discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It will be closed again once that discussion has run its course.
***SPOILER ALERT***
Laura - Aug 03, 2004 3:25:56 am PDT #359 of 3301
Our wings are not tired.
-t - Aug 03, 2004 5:00:04 am PDT #360 of 3301
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
You still have time, connie and Laura (and anyone else who hasn't started reading yet). I'm finding the actual page/hr reading speed pretty fast, though there is a kind of dreamlike quality to the writing that gives the illusion of slowness.
And I'm also finding the setting a little confusing, libkitty. Reserving judgement on P-C's suggestion until completion.
Wolfram - Aug 03, 2004 5:16:33 am PDT #361 of 3301
Visilurking
I've been going through the book at a pretty fair pace. Unfortunately my cheating heart makes me read other stuff at the same time, and since I started The Intuitionist I've completed the latest Jeffrey Deaver, Terry Pratchett, and Stephen King novels, and I'm forcing myself to wait on 3 Alan Moore graphic novels (League 2, Killing Joke and From Hell), and House of Sleep all recently redeemed from on hold at the library. Part of the problem is that we have so long until the deadline that I wanted to pace it out so I finish it right before discussion time.
And I am finding the concept of the (spoiler for end of part 1) black box very cool.
-t - Aug 03, 2004 5:29:19 am PDT #362 of 3301
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Me too, Wolfram, on the whitefont.
Small digression into off-topic natter since we are not yet in full discussion mode - what's the newest Pratchett title? I'm on a paperback only diet of those, so I'm probably very far behind indeed, but I like to know what I have to look forward to...
Wolfram - Aug 03, 2004 5:43:08 am PDT #363 of 3301
Visilurking
It's Hat Full of Sky, a sequel to Wee Free Men.
Geared for young adult, but hey, I'm young and an adult.
Topic!Cindy - Aug 03, 2004 6:44:43 am PDT #364 of 3301
What is even happening?
I haven't been able to get the book, yet. Like Wolfram though, I have a cheating heart. I've read Primary Colors, and am well into Clinton's biography. I'll be trying to make it to the bookstore either on Thursday, or over the weekend.
Daisy Jane - Aug 03, 2004 7:55:34 am PDT #365 of 3301
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Oh yeah, I have a little thing with Oryx and Crake on the side right now.
Kate P. - Aug 03, 2004 9:00:16 am PDT #366 of 3301
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I also have a cheatin' heart, by way of The Count of Monte Cristo and Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines. But I'm getting into The Intuitionist more now, so it'll probably dominate my reading for the next week or so. Definitely interesting so far!
Tam - Aug 03, 2004 5:57:00 pm PDT #367 of 3301
"...Singing their heads off, protected by the holy ghosts, flying in from the ocean, driving with their eyes closed." - Patty Griffin "Florida"
Heehee, and here I was feeling all guilty for cheating.
-t - Aug 04, 2004 4:24:48 am PDT #368 of 3301
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm a one book woman. Or serial monogamist, anyway. And sometimes I find myself continuing to read some boring and thick book that I should have put down ages before, but its sweet words keep calling me back with the promise that this time the plot will make sense and the dialogue will be interesting, it'll all be different, baby.