No I haven't got the book

[mandragora]

And don't think that I can be bothered to go out and buy it, either. I don't like carting a hardback book around, because it weighs too much to easily carry around and I'm usually weighed down with things like legal papers, which are more than heavy enough in and of themselves. Of course, I always have a book on me. But in paperback.

And no, I can't spend the weekend reading it. I've got things I must do, including reading yet more of a seemingly unending stream of legal papers. Spent all week in court so am way behind on the paperwork, plus being involved in a five-day hearing is knackering. jacquez, this is why I haven't got back to you yet re Chapter 2 yet, for which my apologies. I will get back to you over the weekend, I promise.

It looks like I'm one of the few people who is largely unmoved by the Potter-love. Don't get me wrong, I like the books and enjoyed reading them. Ditto watching the movie-versions. And I have a soft spot for Harry/Draco (but then the sexual tension between not-friends is a kink of mine). But I'm not salivating over the prospect of reading Order of the Phoenix like I would be over a new Guy Gabriel Kay or CJ Cherryh novel, for example.

That said, spoiler whore though I am, I am curious about whether/who dies. But I'm relying on some of my friends (looks alsoa's way) to tell me.

Off to read some legal papers.

Comments

[amara-1783.livejournal.com]

I'm not salivating over the prospect of reading Order of the Phoenix like I would be over a new Guy Gabriel Kay or CJ Cherryh novel, for example.

Word. This in an oasis of sanity in the OotP-maelstrom of my friendslist ;) (I can't even escape in RL, as they had a big stand at the local supermarket O_o )

[alsoa.livejournal.com]

But the hardback will be so useful for bashing pervs on the tube/in court. In the meantime it'll be my pleasure to spoil you! Email later. PSss. Can you send me the SaB stuff I missed?

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

Can you send me the SaB stuff I missed?

Ooops. Was just thinking whilst in hairdressers that I must do that. Will go and do so now.

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

Well, I can't begrudge those people who are all fannishly excited about it.

It's just that I'm...not.

I don't think that the books are that good, you know and they've never 'got' to me like Guy Gavriel Kay's or CJ Cherryh's and some other author's have.

But each to their own and those who really are into HP have been waiting a long time for this. So it's totally understandable why they're so excited about it.

I guess it comes down to I don't quite understand why Harry Potter is this amazing phenomenon when other books that rate far higher on the Mandragora approval rating *g* aren't. They're not badly written and have some decent characters, but nothing that IMO hasn't been done before, and better.

But then a lot of the TV series I like and write fanfic for aren't that good either. Clearly something about HP has resonated deeply with those who love it. It's just that I'm not one of them.

[temaris.livejournal.com]

Seenig your post has reminded me I should try to emerge from the hp fog and watch Strange later. 9pm bbc 1, right?

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's on at 9.10pm this evening. BBC1 is right, though.