Potterdammerung

[mdlbear]

So far I've read the first two books, and seen most of the movies in bits and pieces on DVD. So I'll know how the series ends long before I get around to reading through it. If I ever do.

I don't intend to post any spoilers here, but I'm not going to go out of my way to avoid them elsewhere. In fact, I'll probably ask somebody just to get it out of the way. If a book's worth reading, it doesn't matter to me whether I know how it ends: it's all about the journey. Just like I go to the opera for the music, not to be surprised at the ending.

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[pwl1.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm NOT the only person in the world who has only read the first two books. It just seems like it sometimes.

Do you ever peek at the end of a book to find out how it ends, just to get that bit out of the way so you can go on enjoying the reading of it?

[mdlbear]

Frequently.

[smalltowndad.livejournal.com]

I lost track of how much of how many of the H.P. books I've read.

With a wife and three daughters who are Potter fans, if I put one of the books down and came back more than a minute later, it was gone.

That, and the way bookmarks floated between pages, made my Potter experience a trifle kaleidoscopic.

(My son wasn't reading much when Pottermania started.)

[idea-fairy.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of how we used to go to movies when I was a kid.

We would show up at the theater at some more or less random time, with the movie in progress. We would watch it to the end, and then stay for the start of the next showing. When we got to the point where we'd entered, we left. That way we would see one complete showing, even if the parts weren't in their normal order.

This was a common custom, and I believe it's where the expression "This is where we came in" comes from.

[smalltowndad.livejournal.com]

To read ahead, or not to read ahead.

I've no problem with either, but think that there's something lost in the first-reading experience, if the outcome is known before I get there, as a reader.

[mdlbear]

Other things being equal I'd like to work my own way to the ending, especially with mysteries. But in most cases I'm so far behind the rest of the world that I can't help picking up bits and pieces.