Begin Media Blackout · 21 July 2007
Friends, family, fellow readers. Today I crawl into the dark cave of sensory deprivation. Today I stop visiting your websites and commenting on your posts. Today I don thick earmuffs and dark glasses. Today I stop checking my email. Today I lock myself in my room and hum loudly to myself. For today is the day that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows comes out, and I won’t have my copy until Monday at the earliest.
My friends have made a pact that we will not speak of to book amongst ourselves until all present have read it, but I don’t trust the media to have the same self-restraint. I’ve heard horror stories of Yahoo! (the host of my personal email account) posting spoilers for American Idol and Survivor in the headlines on the main page. And we all know about the famous spoiler for Book 6 (hint, don’t click the link if you don’t want to see the spoiler).
And so, I bid you a fond adieu and a happy weekend of reading. I will resurface to the world as we know it after I find out all the answers, and look forward to discussing the book with you then.
And lest you think that I’m taking this all a bit too . . . seriously, Nymeth pointed me to Bob who is taking even more extreme measures than I am. Good luck fellow Potter fans! Maybe your weekend be spoiler free.
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Nymeth · 22 July 2007, 14:14
I hope you enjoy your reading time and resurface soon!
I managed to avoid spoilers successfully, phew. Today I returned to the Internet, and so far, except for a message board where two idiots posted spoilers in unrelated topics and went unpunished, people seem to be behaving themselves.
jean pierre · 24 July 2007, 00:22
i think a media blackout is very wise indeed…! you can’t trust people with these things. especially since it seems a lot of people think theres nothing funnier than spoiling someone else’s reading experience.
Kim · 24 July 2007, 23:56
I’ve returned after a reading binge and successfully avoided spoilers. I’ll be posting my thoughts on the book by the end of the week.
It seems spoilers were less prevalent this time around. Perhaps all the bad press last time made the fans aware of the possibilities for spoiling and thus the spoilers less likely to spoil.
jean pierre · 26 July 2007, 09:14
yeah, thankfully. its just annoying that there had to be so much bad press in the first place.
i read about what they were doing with the whole dumbledore thing and it was terrible.
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