Probably the only Harry Potter post you will see from me
Parents came back from Tesco's with a copy of Deathly Hallows.
Which is all very fine, but I haven't read Half Blood Prince. I don't even have a copy. That was the one I couldn't bother picking up.
(On a side note: rest of family went to see OotP. I stayed home with cramps and unpacked suitcase)
Bbd made much of getting the one with the "adult" cover (Thank god, does anyone think the cover art of the regular editions just got worse and worse? I do) and how it has a different ISBN (comparative shopping, go dad!).
BBD: this is the adult version with orgies and incubusses [sic] replacing the deatheaters
ME: I'd read that
BBD: I know.
Once you get past the whole "does-he/doesn't-he know about the finer details of my hobby?" bit, it was pretty funny.
(Oh and the only "book" tagged icon I have is this one, from the Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century, probably one of the worst books Mike Moorcock has ever written. For non-Moorcock fans, it's the kinky adventures of Jerry's sister/lover Catherine (innocent and gets into bad situations) and her (unknown to Jerry, who can't see the wood for the proverbial) much more capable girlfriend Una as they fall through the timestream into various dodgy scenarios. I got as far as the Fu Manchu one. *eyeroll* Somebody ought to do a documentary: When Science Fiction Writers get Orgasm Disease and try to Sex Things Up. Exhibit one should be the Robots of Dawn by Asimov (which totally comes out like a dirty uncle). Actually, Mike isn't that bad at the whole sex thing, except possibly when he tries to make it sexy as opposed to a realistically inept counterpoint to activities or a metaphor... Oh christ, I don't want to be the sort of person who tries to analyse Moorcock. But I would like to point you to the scene in Firing the Cathedral in which Jerry buggers a captured Dubya)
To think I started this post on something as sweet and innocent as Harry Potter. (Okay, new fantasy movies are one of the things that got lampooned in FtC)
Which is all very fine, but I haven't read Half Blood Prince. I don't even have a copy. That was the one I couldn't bother picking up.
(On a side note: rest of family went to see OotP. I stayed home with cramps and unpacked suitcase)
Bbd made much of getting the one with the "adult" cover (Thank god, does anyone think the cover art of the regular editions just got worse and worse? I do) and how it has a different ISBN (comparative shopping, go dad!).
BBD: this is the adult version with orgies and incubusses [sic] replacing the deatheaters
ME: I'd read that
BBD: I know.
Once you get past the whole "does-he/doesn't-he know about the finer details of my hobby?" bit, it was pretty funny.
(Oh and the only "book" tagged icon I have is this one, from the Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in the Twentieth Century, probably one of the worst books Mike Moorcock has ever written. For non-Moorcock fans, it's the kinky adventures of Jerry's sister/lover Catherine (innocent and gets into bad situations) and her (unknown to Jerry, who can't see the wood for the proverbial) much more capable girlfriend Una as they fall through the timestream into various dodgy scenarios. I got as far as the Fu Manchu one. *eyeroll* Somebody ought to do a documentary: When Science Fiction Writers get Orgasm Disease and try to Sex Things Up. Exhibit one should be the Robots of Dawn by Asimov (which totally comes out like a dirty uncle). Actually, Mike isn't that bad at the whole sex thing, except possibly when he tries to make it sexy as opposed to a realistically inept counterpoint to activities or a metaphor... Oh christ, I don't want to be the sort of person who tries to analyse Moorcock. But I would like to point you to the scene in Firing the Cathedral in which Jerry buggers a captured Dubya)
To think I started this post on something as sweet and innocent as Harry Potter. (Okay, new fantasy movies are one of the things that got lampooned in FtC)