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Okay, so I totally get the whole thing about not wanting people to spoil the ending for you...but I am getting a little irritated with seeing constant reminders everywhere of people to warn about spoilers and "you'd better not ruin it for me" and all that, as if people have nothing better to write about and the world will end or something. I actually saw somewhere (no, no one on my friends list) where someone threatened to never again speak to anyone who spoiled the ending for the book or movie (they didn't seem to be joking, though whether they are or not, there are people that would seriously do such a thing.) Maybe it's not the height of politeness to purposely spoil the ending of the story for people, but there are far worse transgressions that one can make. For serious. There's a point where it stops being fun and starts being...I dunno, a bit excessive.

I'm really starting to feel the return of the "I hate the very idea of Harry Potter" sentiment that I felt back when I actively refused to read the books or see the movies. Because I'm just so sick of hearing about it, much like I was then. That whole Lancaster YMCA triathlon making news in Hong Kong debacle just instilled a very active disinterest in me for several years.

Yeah, I like the books and the movies, they're cool. But oh my gawds folks, there are plenty of other books and movies that are just as good and better. Go obsess about some of those for a few minutes.

Ya know, I knew who died at the end of Half Blood Prince before I read it. Ya know what? It didn't ruin the book for me...there was so much more to it than OMG! *name* died! If I happen to inadvertently find out about the ending of Deathly Hallows before I get to read it, it's not gonna spoil it for me and I sure as hell am not going to quit talking to someone over it.

Like I said, I like the books...but maybe now that the last book is coming out, the world can find something else to obsess over.

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I agree with you about the whole Harry Potter thing. I love the books and the movies and the whole Harry Potter experience, but it's pretty much the fans that ruin it for me. I was kinda snarled at by a friend who found out that I bought the fifth book a year after it came out at a flea market. Hell, it was almost brand-new, hardcover, and 5 bucks.

I know the ending to the sixth book and I still haven't read it. And no, it won't spoil it for me, because if you're reading it for the end, then what happens to the journey it takes to get there? Read it for the plot, the character development, the writing style. Whatever happened to the actual story?

What is gonna spoil the seventh book for me is if I decide to read it at a later time than the actual release date and I get flak from people. Hell, even if I get it, I don't want to get flak for not reading it in a friggin' day. I like to enjoy what I read, and I can't enjoy a book if I read it all in one sitting. I have to put it down and reflect on it for a bit. :)

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and I can't enjoy a book if I read it all in one sitting.

See, it's a bad sign for me if I can put a book down and not be going crazy to pick it back up again. Put it down and reflect? What's that? Yeah, it really sucks when I read an author's latest book in a single night and have to wait a year or more for the next one to come out- or worse, when it's the end of the series, like two other books that I'm desperately waiting on, one of which might be out in November, one of which should be out next June.

Oh wait...*squeak* There are going to be more books in the Kushiel's Legacy series after the one coming up next year!!!!!It won't be the end of the series!!!!

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Hahaha, you're cute. :)