Oh geez. In a thread pitting someone who spoils a book, another person who’s already read the book spoils the book for someone else by clicking on a spoiler.
I’m dizzy.
I think I’m the only person at my job who reads HP at all.
Bright side: No one to spoil it for me.
Dull side: No one to discuss it with now that I’ve finished it.
(Although, sometimes the people you really have to worry about are the people who don’t read the books themselves, and therefore don’t realize how egregious it is to blurt out info that they heard from someone else, not appreciating the fact that it’s crucial.)
Harry Potter aside, can I speak as someone who lives in spoilerville?
Down here in the deep, dark Southern hemisphere, everything (movie, telly and even book related) comes complete with spoilers.
Every movie has been spoiled completely.
I can find out who won the Apprentice, the Amazing Race or any other programme waaaaay before I can see it (well not always WAY before but at least a week before), sometimes it adds to the fun, you know who to boo for 
or at the very least you can train yourself to believe that. Shit, last night ‘Desperate Housewifes’ was on for the first time! If you think anyone down here (who reads crap magazines…I would hate to offend those who don’t read crap magazines 
) was not familar with the general storyline AND spoilers thn you are bonkers.
Perhaps Americans are just a bit spoiled, always expecting spoiler-free entertainment. Believe me, as someone who has “cheated” on just about every reality show going…knowing the outcome doesn’t make the journey less fun.
HP came out at exactly the same time everywhere, 11:01 am Sat morming here, if someone read faster then you and has a big mouth…don’t let it put you off. You can still enjoy the journey.
Of course I haven’t read even one HP book but I have a child who loves them and can’t get his hands on his copy till Saturday (he is away on holiday…and he is desperate to read it). Chill out, spoilers don’t kill the experience.
Yup, I saw a ‘clever’ little spoiler in someones sig on another message board, it gave away both major plot points in the book and was done in a way that looked like it intented to give you no chance to realise what you were reading and stop.
This was on the Thursday before the book was released.
What I don’t understand is why ? I can understand the people who accidentally let slip stuff, or are just stupid or unthinking or whatever. But to deliberately put a spoiler out there in that way when you know the majority of the poeple haven’t read the book … why ? To look clever ? To feel clever ?
::sigh:: I don’t really mind and I can enjoy a book even with the spoilers but given the choice I’d have preferred not to know. If I ever meet the dude I’m giving him a slap just out of principle.
SD
Who now has to avoid Battlestar spoilers until it starts here in October.
I had the book spoiled for me aswell. Why are people such ass-holes? When the next book is out I’m locking myself away and not coming out until the whole thing is read!
God damn fucking ass-holes.
That’s what Bird Man and I did with this one. Bought two copies to read at the same time and holed up at home all weekend. Worked really well.
I think there’s a good market for this device. (totally spoiler-free link, I promise)
I have not read the Harry Potter series. I saw the first movie. I don’t even remember who the characters mentioned in the offending spoiler are. Well I know who one of them is. Anyway. I realize many adults enjoy the series but isn’t it a juvenile series? My experience is that books in that age-range broadcast the plot twists so obviously and use such standard plot devices that you’re never really surprised. Is the series really so well written that adult readers can’t see what’s coming?
This rumor had to surface sooner or later… :eek:
If it was, I missed it. I’ve never heard of her. So sue me.
My book had better get here quick or I’m going to lose my mind.
I agree with this, but I think we’re in the vast minority. Spoilers don’t bug me at all, and I’ve already read the Potter spoilerss (honestly, no big surprises there), but I do intend to read the new tome eventually. To me, it’s not the joy of the plot twists but in how the story is told.
Oh shit, I’m so sorry, I didn’t even think about that.
Old Yeller dies.
No, the series is so badly written that in “Order of the Phoenix” Rowling trades on the advance publicity that someone close to Harry is going to die by putting in lots of fake oh-look-they’re-going-to-die moments for several of the long-running characters. :rolleyes:
Over-fortunate, over-successful, overblown, overpaid hack…
However, they’re not that juvenile. They fit reasonably well into the bracket of “kid’s books wasted on kids”. Granted they’re not great literature, but then Moby Dick is great literature and I found myself a third of the way through and completely uninterested in finishing Melville’s turgid prose; whereas I’ve finished every HP I’ve read until now, and will doubtless be sucked into Volume 6 shortly and Volume 7 when it comes out. So :rolleyes: to me, really.
Here’s a video where the page Absolute linked to came from:
BE WARNED! NICE LOUD SPOILERS CONTAINED WITHIN!
http://www.filefarmer.com/Xizer/pottercrash.MOV
a) The guy’s a dick
b) He can’t even make a decent video.
Hmmm, clearly what’s needed here is some kind of spell to reverse the effect of hearing plot twists in advance.
[spoiler]Just couldn’t help yourself, could ya?
How about “Spoilerus Rescindum”[/spoiler]
Whenever I walk out a movie and there’s a line going into the theater I love to say really loud
[spoiler]“I can’t beleive that Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker’s father!”
Yah, I know this didn’t really need a spoiler, but damned if I’m gonna be the one to ruin it for the six people who’ve manged to avoid Star Wars and The Simpsons for the past 25 years.[/spoiler]
Heh… on preview I messed up the spoiler tag. I always think of broken spoiler tags as hidden land mines… you never notice them until it’s too late.
What are you talking about? They totally did that!
I remember them doing that. I’m not sure which book it was but I distinctly remember that.
DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!
(Actually, Old Yeller hid parts of his soul around the yard.)
I was joking (my imitation of the Nathan Thurm Doper: “No I wasn’t wrong… I wasn’t wrong because… you don’t know what I was saying! How funny that you didn’t know that!”)
That’s on my shopping list when the next book comes out.