You finished a 759 page book (admittedly not particularly dense prose) in a day and a half and you're the "slowest reader ever?" Okay, maybe if you did nothing but read all day Saturday, but otherwise? Not too bad.
Yeah, I finished a bit before you did, but I mostly skipped sleep for a couple of nights. Because I'm a pathetic geek,
Well, I didn't start until 4 p.m. on Saturday, and I did get a good six hours of sleep, but still! People were posting that they finished in five hours, eight or nine hours. I think I'm paranoid that all the TV I've watched in the past few years is killing my brain cells.
Because I'm a pathetic geek
Well, geek, but not pathetic. I mean, I put all this pressure on myself just because I didn't want to get spoiled, not even because I cared that much about finishing the story right away. I think that's more pathetic.
Not that it's a contest. :) Pathetic geeks have a lot of company this weekend!
Okay, good point. I too was driven by spoiler fear. And I was spoiled for some character deaths quite by accident as I was flipping through facebook friends and saw a "*** and *** die" subject heading on someone's post. Not everyone who died, but enough that some of the deaths didn't come as a surprise. Really, I should have stayed off the internet altogether from Thursday through Sunday.
I finished four minutes ago. I cry quite easily, so along with every death, the wedding made me cry, Hagrid being alive, Percy's return, and Dumbledore's portrait crying. However, I've had to keep tissues near me for the last several months, due to unexplainably bad allergies (I'm sure there's a chemo-related explanation, actually), so I was covered.
Oh, you haven't been around my family. All. The. Time. Well, really, it's my mother and I who are the worst (notorious?). Seriously, not only did it happen throughout the book, but it also just happened when I was listening to Brian McKnight's "Still" while driving with my mom. Awkward!
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You finished a 759 page book (admittedly not particularly dense prose) in a day and a half and you're the "slowest reader ever?" Okay, maybe if you did nothing but read all day Saturday, but otherwise? Not too bad.
Yeah, I finished a bit before you did, but I mostly skipped sleep for a couple of nights. Because I'm a pathetic geek,
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Because I'm a pathetic geek
Well, geek, but not pathetic. I mean, I put all this pressure on myself just because I didn't want to get spoiled, not even because I cared that much about finishing the story right away. I think that's more pathetic.
Not that it's a contest. :) Pathetic geeks have a lot of company this weekend!
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Percy's return also made me burst into tears. Although it seems that half the events in the book made me do that, but happy tears were rare!
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I didn't even know that could happen in real life
Oh, you haven't been around my family. All. The. Time. Well, really, it's my mother and I who are the worst (notorious?). Seriously, not only did it happen throughout the book, but it also just happened when I was listening to Brian McKnight's "Still" while driving with my mom. Awkward!
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