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1. Emma
   Posted July 23, 2007 at 5:30 pm | Permalink

   …did she do her traditional re-read of all the preceding ones first? and will she please email me as many spoilers as possible once she gets the end? I stopped reading them after number 3, but like to be informed. Andrew is an habitual non-spoiler and won’t tell me anything.

2. Paul
   Posted July 23, 2007 at 5:40 pm | Permalink

   Yes, she did re-re-re-re-read them before getting this one. And just to get you started, Harry did it.

3. Emma
   Posted July 24, 2007 at 7:11 pm | Permalink

   Good to know – if I’d asked my Dad I would have got his standard answer of, “Miss Marple did it!”.

4. Colonel Nikolai
   Posted July 25, 2007 at 8:42 pm | Permalink

   Is there something wrong me me? I cannot stand Harry Potter. I tried to read one of them and the reading level is at 7th grade (U.S. !) and the plot is as hokey as a scooby-doo cartoon. With a world where you have Tokien and Pullman and even C.S. Lewis (who doesn’t belong in the same sentence as the other two aforementioned), Harry Potter is unreadable dreck. Sorry.

5. Paul
   Posted July 25, 2007 at 8:57 pm | Permalink

   I’ve not bothered with it either – the films are as much time as I care to give to them. In the books’ defense, though, I’d point out that they are aimed at 7th graders, so it’s hard to criticize them too much for that

   On a similar note, I’ve read the first page of Gulliver’s Travels three times, and have been so bored with the writing style that the act of turning the page over has been too much, and I’ve turned the whole book over.

6. Colonel Nikolai
   Posted July 26, 2007 at 2:42 pm | Permalink

   I can’t wait for Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” series to be made into a film trilogy. I’m trying to read all three again before the film comes out. Awesome!

7. Paul
   Posted July 26, 2007 at 2:58 pm | Permalink

   I’m lining those up at the moment – haven’t read before, but have heard many good things.