I'd say "Iorek can beat up Buckbeak" but it'd look like I was missing the point

[prog]

I fear that my awesome kidlit-expert buddies' drunken snarling about Harry Potter is probably the only backlash I'm gonna see about all of this strangeness, I say, as I gesture around myself. (Other than griefers, but let us not count them.)

I shall read and expect to enjoy the book when the borrowing chain gets 'round to me, and am not totally free of my own little bit of plot speculation. But my goodness, this is the most tension I've ever seen gripping people in my peer group outside of a national election. I think maybe the last time I saw anything like this was around the last episode of M*A*S*H but I was too young to appreciate it at the time. And what this has that that didn't is a sense of real desperation, with many of my friends already half-panicked to get the book, race home, and read it as fast as possible before the forces of evil can spoil it for them. It is somewhat unsettling to see.

Mm. Also, it is kind of fun, isn't it.

Comments

[dougo.livejournal.com]

It better not suck like the M*A*S*H finale. Or the Seinfeld finale. Or the Sopranos finale. Man, I'm starting to have a bad feeling about this...

hey!

[kahuna-burger.livejournal.com]

The MASH finale was ok!

(But the Little House finale/movie was better)

[dictator555.livejournal.com]

Dude, it's so not going to suck. Get real. :P

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's worlds different from "Who killed J.R."

[dictator555.livejournal.com]

OMG. I will say again how utterly excited I am. I am obviously one of the crazies, but who cares? This is awesome. I read your drunken friends' post, but they are only talking about a specific (and I think pretty small) subset of people who say dumb stuff about YA lit. Whatever. They are not harshing my Harry high.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm so glad I'm not the only one here old enough to remember the last episode of "M*A*S*H"!

[prog.livejournal.com]

I was in grade school, but a lotta my friends liked the show, which was always jokey enough to be entertaining to a smart kid, and there was playground talk about it the next day. (OTOH I don't think any of cared much about "Dallas"...)

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

I did my anti-Potter ranting a while back, and no longer feel a need to do more. But I pretty much totally agree with the drunken snarling, all the same, and may, eventually, some year, read more than just the 1st (really not very good) book. I don't really get the enthusiasm.