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In a hundred years- or fifty, or twenty- people will snicker at the excesses of the Potter craze as we roll our eyes at the excesses of the Dutch tulip craze. 'Friendships were broken, families were split apart, people committed suicide, all over 'spoilers' that appeared in and about the time of each book's release. It boggles the mind now that people would feel such excessive emotions about the hackneyed two-dimensional characters described in Rowling's flat-footed undistinguished works, but thus it was.'

That being true I'm a little annoyed at the small part of me that wants to go join the madness- buy the book tomorrow morning at an excessive price and devote tomorrow afternoon to reading it so as not to be spoilered by the airheads blissfully blathering about it, without lj cuts, tomorrow night. Hell, I expect the national newspaper to be blathering about it and flinging spoilers left right and centre come dawn Saturday- they have a woman stationed at a bookstore at midnight.

The fact is that unless I buy and read it tomorrow I *will* be spoilered almost immediately unless I confine my reading to individuals on my FL. For sure the rant and/or meta-fandom communities won't be safe after this. But I don't feel like reading Rowling's flat-footed undistinguished book in a heat wave. Dou shiyou? Opt out of the HP and lj madness alike and do a marathon reread of Hundred Ghosts seems to be the only option. If you don't hear from me for a week that'll be why.

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Hmm. We-ell, everyone needs a "thing," and I certainly don't begrudge people their thing; this one just doesn't happen to be mine. In fact, I've always been baffled by the size of this particular fandom because I didn't find the first three -- four? aaa, I've lost track -- to be very good books. ^^;

(The sister and niece creatures have traveled abroad in the land to attend a "release party" tomorrow, I'm told. I will be sneering meanly at them later -- *they* are fair game.)

Enjoy. ;)

(I don't pretend it is great literature. I just . . . have a great desire to know what happens next. It's not just Rowling that does it to me, either. Ah well. I'll scrub the bathroom to cleanse my soul.)

I'd recommend the audio book form (the guy who reads it does a great job), but that's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over-priced.

Like with HP 5 or FMA, I just skipped over people's entries who talked about the book/anime. People were pretty good for the most part, I thought, or I didn't get spoiled during the whole week it took to read it (or the 9 months it took to finally finish the series.)

The books are really expensive though, and it might be awhile before it hits used places. I know Amazon offers it at 40% off, with free shipping over a certain amount (%25). Maybe there are other online stores that are offering it for cheaper.

Oops, I mean, over $25 at Amazon, and you get free shipping, I think...Is there an Amazon Canada?

There is, but for much the same price I could support an independent bookstore five minutes away. Well, not 'support'- bookstores are barely breaking even on the thing, it was reported. They have to discount it heavily because everyone has it.