something is quite wrong
I’ve had the new Harry Potter for what, two weeks now, and am only 102 pages in. I read books one through three back to back when I discovered them, and have snatched up every new issue since then and finished it within days. This one I didn’t even crack for about a week, since I was busy with Ruth Reichl’s Comfort Me with Apples. I finished it, then flipped around in the Potter a bit, then read The Hours and the parts of Emergence that we didn’t get to in Networked Rhetorics. Then I read a few more pages of the Potter, and now I’m looking around for something else to read. I’ll finish it eventually — maybe on our trip South in a few weeks — but I don’t understand my attitude toward it at all.
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I can't speculate as to the problem because I am the one person in the United States who has not read the new Harry Potter book. Maybe you're just not in the mood for light reading right now.
Posted by: Meeeeshell | July 27, 2005 5:02 PM
You so are not the only one! :)
I don't even especially like the Harry Potter books, those I've read.
*waits to be lynched, wondering idly if there's any other type of lynch mob besides the rampaging ones*
Posted by: Dorothea Salo | July 27, 2005 7:15 PM
because it's boring.
barb
read it in stages and not particularly interested in it all
Posted by: Barb | July 27, 2005 7:48 PM
Hmmmm...I have to say that I quite enjoyed it. But then, I'm in the middle of writing my diss, planning a move, and generally going crazy...so any sort of entertainment is appreciated!
Posted by: susansinclair | July 28, 2005 12:02 PM
Maybe it's because you know it's the next to last one and you want it to last as long as possible....
:)
Posted by: Chris Geyer | July 28, 2005 8:13 PM
I'm thinkin maybe you had the distraction of impending matrimony to break your concentration.
Note to Meeeeshell: No, there are two of us. I'm so glad to know I'm not alone.
Posted by: senioritis | August 1, 2005 10:05 PM
I couldn't read the book at first either because it felt like I was entering it with millions of other people. I like entering my books alone, creating my own version of the ficitonal world in my mind. That's almost impossible with Potter now. The spectacle of the books has taken away the private joy - or at least the private fun, not sure if the Potter books are good enough to qualify as joy-giving.
Posted by: yvil | August 4, 2005 10:35 AM