Well, sure, like most any review. I mean, they have to talk about what happens!
And we live to fight another day.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Jesse - Jul 19, 2007 4:12:26 am PDT #3251 of 28197
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
flea - Jul 19, 2007 4:20:08 am PDT #3252 of 28197
information libertarian
I read the review in full, and while there are no specific spoilers, if you are spoiler averse I would avoid it. She talks generally about themes, and mentions deaths without naming names, but in a way that fans might find spoily.
Also, she apparently bought the book by walking into a store in NYC???
Jesse - Jul 19, 2007 4:22:12 am PDT #3253 of 28197
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Maybe she walked in and said, "I'm Michiko Kakutani."
sumi - Jul 19, 2007 4:33:24 am PDT #3254 of 28197
Art Crawl!!!
Yes - and now that it's been on NPR and the NYTimes I'm sure that Scholastic has contacted the store about their error.
(Also, I thought professional critics got advance copies?)
sumi - Jul 19, 2007 4:37:10 am PDT #3255 of 28197
Art Crawl!!!
In NON-HP book news: has anyone read Tasha Alexander?
I am currently reading And Only to Deceive, thoroughly enjoying it and think that others here will too. It's set in the UK (and France so far) at the end of the 19th century about a young widow.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 19, 2007 4:41:17 am PDT #3256 of 28197
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Re early copies of HP: There's also a kerfuffle that DeepDiscount.com sent out some of their copies early (approx. 1200), and Scholastic is going to sue.
Scholastic are also begging via press release that those who receive them prior to the actual release date not open the packages. Like that's going to happen.
Toddson - Jul 19, 2007 4:51:19 am PDT #3257 of 28197
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
oh dear ... the news is out (about early shipments of HP) - does this mean that rabid fans will be lurking in the shrubbery waiting to waylay hapless postal workers?
Consuela - Jul 19, 2007 5:05:17 am PDT #3258 of 28197
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Someone on LJ who posted a snarky review, with quotes, got a DMCA take-down notice from LJ-abuse. WTF?
Frankenbuddha - Jul 19, 2007 5:07:59 am PDT #3259 of 28197
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
does this mean that rabid fans will be lurking in the shrubbery waiting to waylay hapless postal workers?
If this wasn't a distinct possibility, I'd say the image this... ahem... conjures is hilarious.
Connie Neil - Jul 19, 2007 5:16:49 am PDT #3260 of 28197
brillig
"Hand over the Harry and no one gets hurt." Let's hope nobody leaps out of a bush, points a twig, and yells "Expelliarmus!"
Snape borders on brilliant, in a book intially aimed purely at the younger set. "He hates your guts, he always will hate your guts, but he is on your side and you can depend on him." You don't have to be buddy-buddy with everyone to succeed at a common goal.
edit: Plus, Snape has good reason to hate James--though transferring it to Harry is petty.
Do you think they'll explain why Dumbledore continually hired incompetent/dangerous DADA profs?