I'm about 400 pages in, and I'm marginally annoyed at the heavy-handed Nazi metaphor. But the rest of it I'm loving so far, although I want it to not end.
I'm going to stop reading for the night, and I expect I'll finish it tomorrow.
I don't care if it is an orgy of death, there's still such a thing as a napkin.
Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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."
Steph L. - Jul 21, 2007 6:54:51 pm PDT #3428 of 28197
I look more rad than Lutheranism
DavidS - Jul 21, 2007 7:04:00 pm PDT #3429 of 28197
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I was talking to JZ's mom (the bookstore manager) the other day and I said, "This is the last time you'll see a publishing event like this."
And she poo-poohed it, but I'm certain. This kind of communal literary event happens maybe once a century when a Dickens captures the public mood so that dock workers yell up to the ship heaving into the docks, "Does Little Nell die?"
The last time this happened in music was when Sergeant Pepper was released. (And I say that thinking it's a lot less than their best album, but The Event of it was unprecedented and still unsurpassed. It defined that summer.)
JZ used her credit card to buy a copy and I made her a martini and she's in the bedroom reading right now.
DavidS - Jul 21, 2007 8:48:10 pm PDT #3430 of 28197
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Btw, is there an LJ devoted to chapter by chapter reading of HP7?
Or rather, I'm sure there is - where is it?
Emily - Jul 21, 2007 8:48:49 pm PDT #3431 of 28197
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
It's a hell of a long book, though! Just finished, myself. Dr. Who may have to wait until tomorrow. Along with all the other things I was supposed to do today.
Atropa - Jul 21, 2007 8:52:50 pm PDT #3432 of 28197
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Hec, the LJ comm is here: [link]
beth b - Jul 22, 2007 5:58:35 am PDT #3433 of 28197
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I had a really great idea about stuff that was going on in the book just before I fell asleep. but then my dreams go so weird that I can't even rememer what my idea was about
Typo Boy - Jul 22, 2007 8:28:39 am PDT #3434 of 28197
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
A non-spoilery comment. IMO a key plot point depends on handwavium.
brenda m - Jul 22, 2007 9:08:18 am PDT #3435 of 28197
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Good god. My friend picked up the book on Saturday morning. Her mother, on the other hand, picked it up on Friday night and decided the thing to do was text her the ending first thing Saturday morning.
Consuela - Jul 22, 2007 9:08:40 am PDT #3436 of 28197
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
OMG. Bad mom, no biscuit!
Dana - Jul 22, 2007 9:10:20 am PDT #3437 of 28197
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
decided the thing to do was text her the ending first thing Saturday morning.
WTF?