Comments on: Potter In Brief

By: Ed Hand

Ed Hand — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:54:53 +0000

I was in Shop Rite (a local grocery store chain) today and they were selling Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in the produce section next to the tomatoes.

I’m not sure what this says, but it must say something.

By: Ed Heil

Ed Heil — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:35:04 +0000

Nate, you should never have installed the “Hot Coffee” mod….

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 07:49:16 +0000

You misunderstand me, Nate. I want spoilers. I need spoilers. You won’t ruin the ending for me. But I need to know what happens. I won’t be able to read the book until Xmas, and I don’t want to wait that long to find out what happens to everyone. I’ve come to expect a full (very full) review of books here, so don’t disappoint me!

By: nate

nate — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 23:54:22 +0000

Heather: I do plan on reading it right quick once it comes out, but I’ll definitely give fair warning on any spoilers.

Chris: Funny you should mention — I was exploring the world of podcasts for the first time just a couple days ago. Not a bandwagon I plan on jumping on in general, but it does seem like something it’d be fun to do once or twice. Re: the Vonnegut scrambling — I heard about that too from somewhere, so either it’s true or it’s a very well-established rumor.

Jim: I envy your reading speed. Clearly I need to be playing less Grand Theft Auto.

Ed: Just judging from the blurbs, CM’s latest sounds like it’s more in the Border trilogy vein and not quite as hardcore as some of the earlier stuff. Which means the CM aficianados will probably poohpooh it as “McCarthy Lite.” But I’m holding out hopes that it’ll be good. Goodness knows he took his time with it.

As for the midnight campout — I actually found myself at one of those completely by accident last time around . . . we had just gotten out of a movie and happened to be driving by a Barnes and Noble with a strangely big crowd inside. If I’m not doing anything else I may swing by a store just to see the people in costume.

By: Ed Hand

Ed Hand — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:06:59 +0000

Darn it Jim, I’m in the middle of The Confusion and you’ve just ruined it for me…

Nate, thanks for the Cormac McCarthy heads up. I really enjoyed reading the border trilogy as a result of your recommendation. Blood Meridian and Suttree are still on the shelf, but they scare me a bit, so I’m holding off for the right moment.

So are you going to be at your local Borders at midnight for the great unveiling of the sixth book?

By: Jim Zoetewey

Jim Zoetewey — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:30:19 +0000

Pathetic as I am, I read the first 5 over the course of June (and followed it up with reading “The Confusion” because I finally got a copy).

So now I’m hoping Jack Shaftoe survives Book 6…

By: Chris Bowerman

Chris Bowerman — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:59:49 +0000

Nate, Just wondering when we might be syncing the polytropos.org podcast from itunes?

BTW, the previous post by “Anonymous” was from Heather. She asked me to correct the anonymity.

Your idea of reading alternate chapters reminds me a cdrom put out sometime in the mid (late?) 90′s I remember reading about. It was a “Myst” type thing based on Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse Five”. The cdrom contained the book as well and had a randomization feature that scrambled the chapters, paragraphs, etc. As if the book itself didn’t jump enough! I’ve never been able to find this cdrom. I wonder if it ever even existed or was just a joke.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:43:13 +0000

Oh Nate, read the HP first and give us some serious spoilers. I just finished the HP 5 (for the first time), and I won’t be able to read the 6th for a while.