That was OotP

766 pages, 14 hours
10 pages of o_o comments in my notebook just because I wanted to know what I thought when I read it the first time.
And I still can't belive we'll have to wait till the next book to get the OWL results.

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Ok I've finished the book before going online again only to see the war going on at WIKTT. I'm *so* happy that I didn't spent any time longer this morning on the 'net.
People are actually signing up for a mailing list just to spoil who dies in the book in the subject line and then continue to flame the whole list?
Getting a live was never an advice I liked to give but that's just pathetic.

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One night to sleep it over - and can I just say what I think about most at the moment is ( Read more... )

Spoiler, spoiler, spoiler

Some more thoughts on ( OotP )

And just because I wanted it typed and saved ( OotP running comentary )

including:

• in the first hour the difficulties of buying the book -> Evil book store workers, grinning through the glass door pointing to the clock [9:57am] and taking photos of the waiting masses - they were really having fun
• Lots of wild speculation which was mostly proofed wrong on the next page
• The result of reading to much slash - not even the most innocuous statements were safe
• Misuse of exclamation marks and lots of incoherent rambling -> Wohhhoooo!!! Ohhhhhhh O_O Arrrrrggghhhh! Noooooo!
• A general abuse of the English language.

Now that I've got time to think about such minor details, I'm slightly annoyed that I have to write down the chapter titles, numbers and pages because obviously the publishers didn't deem it necessary.

My mother just called - my sisters school is surprisingly evil. The pupils having ordered OotP will get it tomorrow - but it's finals week.

Still thinking about OotP - no spoiler this time - but confused thoughts

I still don't know what to think about the book. When I'm asked I say I liked it, but how much of this is still the excitement of a new book I don't know.

While I read it I liked it, but for me to not like a book I'm reading it has to be truly abysmal.
When I finished I thought some scenes at the beginning a little forced and in the last part to big/rushed/chaotic. I don't know how much of this is a result of the time when I read it - after more than ten hours of non stop reading my perception isn't the best.
I doesn't help that I'm so easily influenced by the opinion of others if they use intelligent sounding words.

So, I've not decided what I think. I'll read what everyone is saying for the next week, reread the book (when I get it back) more carefully and hope that I'll then be able to decide where to place it on my HP scale.

I had a whole day with nothing to do today - tomorrow starts my one week intensive work in the large animal surgical department and I won't be spamming my LJ with silly problems like this again.
More likely that I'll go on and on how nervous I get when helping to treat an animal with an insurance of more than a million €.

[Edit:Huh, to tired to think clearly, but post anyway. Not a good idea. I'm easily frustrated when I hadn't enough sleep.]