Addiction report

[Penny Linsenmayer]

Hi --

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Master, I have two addictions-in-progress to report, and a third
that is, I hope, underway.

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> 3. Don't cut my hand off, Master, but progress is a bit slower on
the home
> front.  Dh, who knows he has only ten days to go, has still not read
PS, but
> he did ask me to put it on his nighttable so that he remembers to
read it.
> I will hold my bwahahahahaha for when he has finished it and grabbed
CoS off
> the shelf.

My DH read PS & CoS very reluctantly.  I had to prod him all the way.
 "Aren't you going to read another chapter tonight, honey?"  He read
PoA while we were in England in spring 2000.  He had complained that
PS & CoS were "good but juvenile ... predictable."  So, with PoA, I
kept prompting, "So, these books are predictable so you tell me.
What's about to happen?"  I got grimaces & annoyed looks.  Finally
when he had been reading non-stop for over 3 hrs on the train to
Edinburgh, I poked him & said, "So..." & what I got was: "Okay!  Okay,
*this* one is good, all right?"  I smiled & settled back against my
seat.  He read GoF without any prompting or needling.

The point is: don't give up if he's not completely enamored with SS.
I've actually known several men who didn't enjoy the series until they
got to PoA.

I'm having less success with my friends though.  I gave a set of all 4
to my best friend from law school & her husband.  Her husband is a
stay-at-home dad & a huge reader.  I have the distinct impression that
he thinks the books are beneath him though.  Grr..  And my friend
hasn't read them either since, when I told her Elizabeth was going as
Hedwig for Halloween, she asked, "Who is Hedwig again?"  Grrrrrr!

Many thanks for all the birthday greetings btw!

Catherine: we are soul-mates on the movie front -- I loved your list
too (which was pretty much the same as mine)!  :)

Penny