Thursday
Jul192007
To Read or Not to Read. . .
Thursday, July 19, 2007 at 12:18PM . . .that is the question.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous forgetfulness of detail and half remembered questions, or to take (the book) to arms against a sea of questions and by reading, end them; to read unprepared, to end in confusion--No more; and by reading (out of sequence) we say to end the anticipation and the thousand natural shocks that fuzzy memory is heir to.
(I fear the spoilers more than my own fuzzy memories and confusions of plot leftover from a hasty reading of book 6. I will read.)
Reader Comments (7)
You know what's funny/strange? The book cover on your site is different from the book cover that shows up in GoogleReader.
I'm looking forward to Saturday!
I'm very carefully avoiding anything that smacks of spoilers.
No!!! Save yourself!!!! Don't Do It!!! ;-))
Anticipation, anticipation, is making me late, keeping me waiting....
I will read too! Can't wait! I did in fact read the review that Challies linked too and now my anticipation is heightened even more!
I have a confession to make: I haven't even read the first Harry Potter, let alone any of the others......
[In my defense, I did see the movie of the first book - on TV - twice.....]
I'm going to make time soon to read them (in order) but anything I learn in the way of spoilers won't really spoil anything for me yet. :)
I never picked up a single book until last summer and then I read them one after another straight through. You have time. They're not going anywhere!
Hamlet would definitely understand. Great use of Shakespeare! And just like I want to say to Hamlet throughout the play, "Do it! Now! Go on!" I say to you: read it.
But then Hamlet didn't turn out so well...
MissM: I KNEW you would like the literary reference, obvious though it was. .don't'cha love Hamlet?"