Seriously, though! What the hell? Does everyone just go crazy when they are aware of spoilers? It's so unbelievably jerk-ish. You'd think fellow fans might respect each other's right to you know, ENJOY THE BOOK first. I'm going to the opening for Solomon's Ring in my town, and I will bring with me a peashooter.

Some arsehole in summer school spoiled the ending of Inception by just shouting it out randomly. ><

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Nero wrote:

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Gladstone wrote:

Nero wrote:

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What the hell man. =p

http://bartiforums.com/topic/6631916/1/ :P

nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:You know what happened to me on that day? My sister's friend called me up at 7 am in the morning (just some time after I got that book) and screamed in the phone before I could say anything, "Harry doesn't die! It came in the paper! He even has children...". I screamed back and banged the phone down. I then tried to convince myself that I had dreamed the call, that the information in the paper was wrong, that the girl got it all wrong and so on.
I think she has been slightly scared of me ever since.

That's horrible. :'( I was in Mumbai when Deathly Hallows was released, and my uncle did the exact same thing to me. He then came over later in the day and distracted me by giving me a copy of the book. He then proceeded to read out the spoilers from the newspaper article before I'd managed to register that he was still trying to ruin Harry Potter. Ugh. I've never told him what book series I'm currently reading after that.

Epic_Footstool wrote:

nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:You know what happened to me on that day? My sister's friend called me up at 7 am in the morning (just some time after I got that book) and screamed in the phone before I could say anything, "Harry doesn't die! It came in the paper! He even has children...". I screamed back and banged the phone down. I then tried to convince myself that I had dreamed the call, that the information in the paper was wrong, that the girl got it all wrong and so on.
I think she has been slightly scared of me ever since.

That's horrible. :'( I was in Mumbai when Deathly Hallows was released, and my uncle did the exact same thing to me. He then came over later in the day and distracted me by giving me a copy of the book. He then proceeded to read out the spoilers from the newspaper article before I'd managed to register that he was still trying to ruin Harry Potter. Ugh. I've never told him what book series I'm currently reading after that.

Footstool, are you an Indian-born living in UK? Or of Indian origin or something? Or just on a trip to Mumbai?
And yes, the culprit newspaper (or tabloid, to be more accurate) was Mumbai Mirror. I never forgave it after that. On the first page, in big letters, they pretty much described the whole epilogue! What if someone saw it by mistake???

nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:Footstool, are you an Indian-born living in UK? Or of Indian origin or something? Or just on a trip to Mumbai?
And yes, the culprit newspaper (or tabloid, to be more accurate) was Mumbai Mirror. I never forgave it after that. On the first page, in big letters, they pretty much described the whole epilogue! What if someone saw it by mistake???

I'm Indian-born living in the UK. The rest of my family is based in India, and we go back to see them at least once every year or two.

I got my cousin to write a letter to the Mumbai Mirror about how ridiculous it was for them to put spoilers on the front page like that! I still don't actually know whether she sent it to them or not...probably not, knowing her. I am completely with you on the unforgiving front. The only thing that paper's good for is the puzzles page :P Well, that and destroying the hearts of innocent readers by telling them what happens at the end of an epic book series.

Epic_Footstool wrote:

nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:Footstool, are you an Indian-born living in UK? Or of Indian origin or something? Or just on a trip to Mumbai?
And yes, the culprit newspaper (or tabloid, to be more accurate) was Mumbai Mirror. I never forgave it after that. On the first page, in big letters, they pretty much described the whole epilogue! What if someone saw it by mistake???

I'm Indian-born living in the UK. The rest of my family is based in India, and we go back to see them at least once every year or two.

I got my cousin to write a letter to the Mumbai Mirror about how ridiculous it was for them to put spoilers on the front page like that! I still don't actually know whether she sent it to them or not...probably not, knowing her. I am completely with you on the unforgiving front. The only thing that paper's good for is the puzzles page :P Well, that and destroying the hearts of innocent readers by telling them what happens at the end of an epic book series.

Haha. You described the paper well. I kinda get it with Times of India (like a package), so I have it at my home daily. But I never read it. Except, as you said, solve the puzzles page (at times).
There were quite a few angry letters sent to MM after that. I know my friend for one sent it.

nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:Haha. You described the paper well. I kinda get it with Times of India (like a package), so I have it at my home daily. But I never read it. Except, as you said, solve the puzzles page (at times).
There were quite a few angry letters sent to MM after that. I know my friend for one sent it.

It's nice to meet another Mumbai Mirror hater :)
If you don't mind my asking, whereabouts in India are you?

Mumbai =D. That is why I get Mumbai Mirror.

nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:Mumbai =D. That is why I get Mumbai Mirror.

If anyone needed proof of how slow I can be to deduce things, there it is.

I've been to Mumbai a couple of times. I have family there.

Oh wow, that is cool =D.

Anyway, admins, finished the book? If so, how was it?

nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:You know what happened to me on that day? My sister's friend called me up at 7 am in the morning (just some time after I got that book) and screamed in the phone before I could say anything, "Harry doesn't die! It came in the paper! He even has children...". I screamed back and banged the phone down. I then tried to convince myself that I had dreamed the call, that the information in the paper was wrong, that the girl got it all wrong and so on.
I think she has been slightly scared of me ever since.

lol before i had finished the bt, i was making a word doc. of a ton of funny quotes from bt... thats how i found this forum! well, i happened to read that Nathaniel died, but I managed to convince myself it wasn't real, helped by the fact that he didn't die until like the last page... it didn't stop me from crying anyway! :'(

Sooo... Amazon.ca lists both November and October release dates. I think it's safe to say the people over here have no idea what's going on. :P

Still having issues waiting. And I wasn't too lucky for the last Harry Potter either, though not so deliberate as some of your unfortunate episodes. A bunch of people were saying "He lives!" in school - made me think that HP was real and the people were shocked, made me want to go buy a copy of the Prophet and see if Voldemort was gone or not. But hey, that wasn't so bad. Could've guessed that he lived, no biggie.

I still remember Queezle's rants on Ginny being a Mary Sue, I think of her whenever I read the Deathly Hallows.

Anyways, to the topic... er... I'm kind of hoping it's a fairly large book. With his writing, Stroud could write a thousand page book and I wouldn't mind.

Dansariki wrote:Anyways, to the topic... er... I'm kind of hoping it's a fairly large book. With his writing, Stroud could write a thousand page book and I wouldn't mind.

It would be great if it were that size! Something to really sink your teeth into. When it comes to Stroud's writing, the more of it we can get the better, right?

It's 400 pages.