Hermione is a dude!

[la_sonnambula]

The first one out the gate (for me anyway) is New York Times' Michiko Kakutani, whose review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the first review from a newspaper of record. It's remarkably spoiler-free and also one of the dullest reviews of hers I'd read. She should've done it in Snape's voice or something. Instead we get a sombre enconium

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[sleestak]

I'm jealous that our independent book store-sponsored party will not be featuring an REI Tent Maze.

The review hits it on the head regarding the long-winded exposition. I must suck at the classics, though, because I saw no Milton or Homer in this or any other HP book.

[la_sonnambula]

The other two stores in the shopping center are REI and Anthropologie. Alas, the latter isn't involved in the festivities.

Me neither. I also didn't see Kafka.

[edda]

I love your icon.

I still haven't ready OotP all the way through. The teen angst got kind of annoying.

[la_sonnambula]

I love it too. There's something demented about the overt cuteness of Japanese cute...things.

Hee! EmoPotter.

[baggylettuce]

I saw a spoiler earlier and nearly puked with shock, but now I'm feeling like I ought to seek them out so I can read the book without shrieking.

Knowing the ship sinks at the end of Titanic didn't spoil it for anyone! Let's tell the kids that it was all a dream! Harry wakes up in his cupboard in Privet Drive and NONE OF IT HAPPENED.

[la_sonnambula]

Hmm, I wonder which spoiler made you shocked and vomitous. Thanks to sleestak and zooby I now know how the book ends; I don't think it's very shriek-inducing.

There's an immensely popular Japanese children's adventure comics about an underachieving boy and his robot cat called Doraemon. During the 80s, a rumour circulated that the ending of the manga series would reveal the main character to be autistic and that everything took place in his imagination. People were pissed.

[baggylettuce]

Despite warnings of "death is final" and knowing 2 favourites are set to die and having seen Sirius AND Dumbledore bite it...oh, and the fact that the whole series is set off by Harry's parents buying the farm....I'm STILL gadding about in an imaginary realm where nothing bad happens ever ever.

I just saw a list of deaths and was "..." and then "!!!" and then """"" like Woodstock. I was never interested in Dumbledore or Sirius that much but if the person I think is going to die dies (and there's a 50/50 chance!) I will explode like Peter Petrelli.

Then by Monday I'll be calm again and like "Harry Potter? Soooo over it. I'm a grown up! When's the next season of Heroes?"

[zooby]

I swear I'm not going to spoil you but... who do you think dies that you'd be super upset about? I won't tell you if you're right or wrong. I'm just curious.