Ouf

[flemmings]

Have finished the beast. Better than OotP, certainly, but that's damning with faint praise. Better than anything but Philosopher's Stone and PoA, I think, though I've never reread any of the books and my memory is vague.

And now I shall go back to ignoring the net again because people I would never have expected to be unintelligent on the subject are being so. Starting with the woman who (rightly, I then thought) threatened to defriend anyone who spoilered her and then put an uncut spoiler into her post-read post. People still don't know what a spoiler is and clearly will never learn.

But a vote of thanks goes to (possible spoiler here) the person in a certain community who, when some twit said 'X and Y happen-- at least that's what I heard somewhere, don't know if it's true or not,' answered with utter assurance 'It's not.' It was. Go them.

Meanwhile I did not win my horse race. Sadness. But Akino Matsuri is still a fun mangaka and perfect summer reading, so I return to Masked Detective Suzuki Tarou.

Comments

[xsmoonshine.livejournal.com]

I used the magic End button to skip your spoilers! But actually, someone on my own fishlist has already spoiled me with cut-tag text. Still, I've been ignoring all the spoiler posts popping up. Is everyone in the world reading this thing? Whatever happened to waiting for the cheap paperback? ;_;

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Confused. I thought when this appeared in flists the cut tag would be there still, and assumed that people would be reading this in their flists. But the cut's still there if you just go to my page. So why do you need to use end to read the bit after the [/lj-cut?]

Shall lux it instead then, not that it's an obvious spoiler unless you read the same communities I do.

Waiting for the paperback means half a year of staying off the net because people will spoil you when you least expect it.

[xsmoonshine.livejournal.com]

I used the end because I wanted to comment and the comment form takes you to the complete post, sorry if that wasn't clear.

:) I don't really mind, I expected that there would be no end of spoilers when I decided not to get the book. I am zen like a zen garden, nothing but rocks in my head.

Can die happy now

[luxetumbra.livejournal.com]

I'm a verb!

Re: Can die happy now

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

And an active verb too, she says approvingly. Thanks again for the Useful Grey. I'd totally forgotten that going to comments cancels spoiler cuts, thus removing a good deal of the latter's usefulness.