I'm not really against them - I just never had any desire to crack the spine of a Potter tale.
But even I can get a little excited about the imminent publication of the latest (and last?) in the series. After all, here was my (rather splendid) entrepreneurial idea the last time a book was published:
I often see people reading Harry Potter books in the Underground. With the most recent one I had a great idea. I knew that a character died, so I hunted around for the spoiler on the Internet. I know who it is. I thought I could wander around the Underground looking for those in the early pages of Harry Potter and the Half-Brain Prince and threaten to tell them who dies unless they give me £10, or maybe £5 if they negotiate.
And this time with all the leaking, I could make a cracking start.
I LOVE IT!!! Can I have a piece of this action? I wouldn't take Cletus with you on this mission, however. Harry Potter can provoke violent rage in some people. My friend said if I find out the ending and tell her, she will kill me. Gulp.
ReplyDeletehmmm.... if it's that emotive maybe I should extort more
ReplyDeleteLOL- I just blogged that the people that do this sort of thing are evil. . . I really don't think the two of you would do anything of the sort.
ReplyDeleteTo be safe I may stay away from your sites until I finish reading.
I haven't read any either, though my daughters are both fans. I actually started reading the first one to Daughter Number Two when she was in 4th grade, but after the first chapter she took it off and finished it.
ReplyDeleteI hope you've started reading aloud to Cletus, btw. My babies both loved to listen to nursery rhymes, and I continued reading to them long after they started reading.
Not so much reading to Cletus as singing along to country music CDs. Does that count?
ReplyDeleteAfter seeing your comment though, I did read out much of this week's Economist's letters page while he was nursing.