Bought Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince yesterday at lunch. Read a bit of it while actually eating said lunch, with a plan to read more that evening.
Not quite how it worked out.
I spent most of the evening footling about on the ‘net (Curse you, Boreme Dot Com), not really getting the book open until 9pm – about my normal bedtime these days.
Now, my basic spoiler-free review consists of: I didn’t stop reading until 2:40 am.
So I’m very very tired, and darnit if the CSI season 5 finale double bill isn’t on tonight. So that’s me up ’till 11… (Why yes, I am recording it. Why do you ask?)
Meanwhile, I found this cool link to TechBooksForFree.com where there’s a bunch of, well, Tech Books For Free.
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I read the first chapter and the first few paragraphs of the second then found it very easy to put down again. I found her treatment of the prime minister faintly insulting — does she treat all non-wizard characters with the same disdain?
Having said that I have had the same experience of reading a book and not sleepuing — in my case with Jasper Fforde’s The Big Over Easy (web site at http://www.nurserycrime.co.uk/) which has short chapters that each make you want to read just one more before turning out the light.
I think most “kids” books tend to treat political figures in the same way…
I agree though – I can’t see any Prime Minister worth his or her salt just taking it so badly.
I think the first two chapters did have problems – they were basically big infodumps. It worked better later on.