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   Internet manners...

Just a random thought: if you're on a message board, posting in a thread entitled 'spoiler thread for new book', I really don't think it's necessary that absolutely every post within said thread should be enclosed in spoiler tags. If you were in 'random theories about new book' it would make sense to use spoiler tags, but when the only thing not in the tags is everyone's signatures it just makes it hard work to read and there's no way I'd want to join in.

Labels: ms manners, obernewyn, the internet is for porn

   A thought experiment...

Close your eyes for a moment and think about the Harry Potter books. The first ones were great, and a new one came out every few years as soon as the author finished writing it.

Then imagine that the author got to the end of the penultimate book and got distracted, and she wrote a whole bunch of other books from different stories, instead of the ending of the series that made her famous. And that the two year wait between books became three years, then four, then five and eventually you just decided that you'd give up on waiting and check the internet every six months or so to see when the final book would come out.

Then imagine that finally you find an announcement saying that the book is done and due in a few months and you start getting so excited that you barely even notice the caveat ("it's not the last book in the series, really sorry about that, but I'm done on the last one as well, I just didn't notice how long it was getting"). You realise that in another six months you will finally know how this story will end, and you've been waiting for that since you were 14 and first hooked on this book.

And then there's an announcement: "Sorry guys, but I missed the editing deadline, it'll be another few months", and that'll make it nine years since the last book, but it's okay, because finally you'll know if the good guys make it through.

Then imagine that you snuck off work early yesterday, because there were rumours on the internets that a few bookstores had put it out already (even though the official release is monday), and now you have the (second-to-last,-but-at-least-the-last-is-done) book in your possession, but you have to suffer through a day of work before you get to read it.

*rolls eyes*

All I have to say is that this better be an improvement over book 4, Isobelle, because I've been waiting since I was a kid for this book and I'm going to be really unhappy if it's just more filler.

Labels: books, isobelle carmody, misfits, obernewyn