Re: o.t. READING

[Mech <mech@m3ch.net>]

At 3:28 PM -0400 8/23/07, Tony K wrote:
>>On 8/23/07, <mailto:markfrancombe@gmail.com>markfrancombe@gmail.com 
>><<mailto:markfrancombe@gmail.com>markfrancombe@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>Is no one reading the new Harry Potter... ???
>
>I think I'm in a minority.  I haven't read any of them.  It's not 
>that I'm not interested, just way too many other books that are 
>ahead in the line. :)

I haven't read any of them either, but that's because my wife has 
always been a big Potter fan (she started keeping up with 'em right 
before the second book was released; long before any serious talk of 
movies).  She gives me a synopsis of what's happening from book to 
book as they come out, so I've never bothered to read them myself.

BTW, she absolutely HATED the new book.  She said J.K. Rowling was 
merely sleepwalking her way through the whole thing so she could 
collect a paycheck.  Don't know if I could blame Rowling, though. 
She could write Jabberwocky in reverse interspersed with the NYC 
Yellow Pages and this last book would still have been a bestseller. 
And the scriptwriters are gonna take the bare plot threads and 
re-write the whole thing for the movie anyway.  Why kill yourself at 
this point....

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