I just ran across a full set of spoilers (complete with page numbers) by clicking on an earthquake video on the front page of youtube. It was in the comments.
You guys not wanting to be spoiled better be careful out there.
I’m thinking of taking a vacation from the internets until my book arrives, I’m so afraid of spoilers. But that will probably take a week! I don’t know if I can avoid the internet for that long. I am grumpy about this situation.
My plan to avoid guerrilla efforts to spoil the book is to have my iPod blaring on the way to the bookstore (I’m taking the bus), turning it off only for the transaction (which will be brief - I give them the vouchers I bought 2 months ago and get 2 books). Then I put the books in my messenger bag where they cannot be seen, put the iPod back on, and promptly take the bus back home. But, yes, I’m avoiding any sites that have freewheeling comment sections today. In fact, this is one of the few message boards I’ll go to today.
Well, I’m pretty much in an HP geek frenzy for the next twenty four hours or so and I think, in light of the ambush YouTube spoiler report, I’m going to sign off the internet right now and not come back until some time mid-Sunday when I’ve got my fix. 
Cheers y’all.
Word. I’m even turning off my Hewlett Packard monitor until Tuesday, at the earliest.
What?
Click the following link and you can here J. K. Rowling read Chapter One.
Click the banner at the top.
By the way, do NOT go to the Wikipedia entry for the book. It’s quite thorough already.
You ain’t kidding. Came home tonight and looked up as an airplane with huge, lit up scrolling text on the underside flew overhead. We live about a 1/4 of a mile away from the fairgrounds and the county fair is going on this week. I figured it was an ad for a local business or something.
Nope. It was Harry Potter spoilers. Flying around town and over all the kids at the fair or heading to the bookstores downtown.
It really pissed me off more than it should have, I’m not even a fan.
But really, what a dickhead thing to do.
Oh my god, that’s hilarious!
Yes, jerkish, too, but wow. What a crazy thing to do!
My daughter has the book now…I finished it about an hour ago. She’s coming out every two or three minutes to squeal or cry or ask a question about what happens next, to which I enigmatically smile and turn away.
If anyone cares, no, I didn’t hang around Borders until 2am hoping to buy a copy. I was tired and cranky by 12:30am, so I gathered the kidlets and we left. As I drove home, I passed a 24-hour Wal-Mart and thought…hmmm…I wonder how crowded they are…
Turned out, not at all. We saw a woman leaving the store with a copy of the book, I slow down the car so Ivygirl could ask her how long the line was, and she said there was no line. So we park, hurry in, ask a clerk, “Where are the books?” (no, we didn’t have to specify) and he pointed toward the middle of the registers. Big table, plenty of copies, and where Borders was charging $34.99, I walked out of Wal-Mart with a copy for $18.94, including tax.
I stayed up until 2:30 reading the first four or five chapters, then woke up about 8am, read some more, then took at nap at 12p until 2pm, then got done about 9pm.
Woohooo…what a ride!
[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven]
The new and last Harry Potter book comes out this weekend…
So, we’d like to have all comments, discussions, etc limited to just one thread, at least for the first week or so after the book is unleashed. That thread is here: Harry Potter #7: (SPOILERS APLENTY): Now that you’ve read it… That’s it. Post your discussion, including spoilers, there and only there…QUOTE]Would it be possible great sir[/suckup] to open a thread on discussion of the whole series?
Titled:
Complete Harry Potter Book Series, Comments and Loose Ends. Open SPOILERS!
The existing thread is already at three pages and is (mostly) limited to book seven (and our experiences getting and reading it).
OK, it’s been almost a week since the release of the book. We imposed tighter spoiler-restrictions (mainly, confining spoilers and discussion of the book to one thread) because we knew that many (many!) of our members didn’t want to be exposed to any spoilers. A week later, our assumption is that [del]the most fanatical[/del] – er, those who felt strongest about avoiding spoilers – have now read the book. We therefore are lifting the extra restrictions. It’s a complicated book, and there will be multiple questions/topics and therefore we should allow multiple threads.
Please note that our standards of good manners still apply, which means that spoilers should be warned or boxed.
- Thread titles should reveal “open spoilers”
- Use of spoiler boxes is encouraged; for instructions, please see Etiquette and Guidelines for the Straight Dope Message Board (Post #6) and/or Cafe Society Forum Rules(Post #4.)
- Avoid spoilers in the first four or five sentences, and remember that the spoiler box is not protection against mouse-over