Spoilers from the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, have hit the internet earlier this week. But are they true? One hacker says they are because he hacked into the computers at London publisher Bloomsbury and has evidently posted what he says he read on the internet. Scholastic replied by saying, "There is plenty of material circulating on the Internet, and you can't believe everything you read. No one has it..."
So how do you avoid spoilers before you read the book yourself? What I do is I avoid anything that has to do with it. When the Half Blood Prince was released, it was awhile before I read it because I was re-reading the other books. So when I saw any talk of Harry Potter online, I made a speedy exit. Not to mention I strictly forbade my children to say a word about it around me. ;)
Friday, June 22, 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Blow Out by Catherine Coulter
My husband found this book lying on a beach in North Carolina. He should have left it there because it was probably abandoned because it ended so bad.
I just finished it a couple of days ago and the story was pretty good up until Coulter jumps ship with what I call writer's cop-out. That's when an author can't seem to come up with a way to tie up all the loose ends and resorts to a scenario that is not believable and brings the whole storyline to a ridiculous ending.
Spoiler: highlight area between [ ] to read the spoiler
[First of all the book is called Blow Out. This is in reference to the FBI agent Savich's tire that blows out in the beginning of the story. It is because of the blow out that he comes to know the ghost of a woman who was murdered 20 years ago and want him to solve her murder and help her son. The problem with naming the book Blow Out is that the ghost story is not the main story. The main story is about solving the murder of a supreme court justice. You'd think that since Coulter is intertwining two murder mysteries that sooner or later the stories will tie in to each other somehow. But no. The only tie-in is the same FBI agents are working on both mysteries. Then at the peak of the book, where the stories questions get answered and the cases get solved, Coulter cops-out with not one, but two criminal confessions. Give us a break! Criminals very rarely confess just because they're going to either die or kill the person they are confessing to and we are to believe that it happened twice in the same book? Oh, and did I mention that there was also a cheesy love story intertwined in the two unrelated mysteries?]
But to give credit where it's due, the main story was a good one. There was a surprising twist that occurred after it was solved that made it a bit more interesting, although irrelevant. I just hate a good story with a bad ending.
Laura's Rating: 2/5
This book is for sale in my half.com shop.
I just finished it a couple of days ago and the story was pretty good up until Coulter jumps ship with what I call writer's cop-out. That's when an author can't seem to come up with a way to tie up all the loose ends and resorts to a scenario that is not believable and brings the whole storyline to a ridiculous ending.
Spoiler: highlight area between [ ] to read the spoiler
[First of all the book is called Blow Out. This is in reference to the FBI agent Savich's tire that blows out in the beginning of the story. It is because of the blow out that he comes to know the ghost of a woman who was murdered 20 years ago and want him to solve her murder and help her son. The problem with naming the book Blow Out is that the ghost story is not the main story. The main story is about solving the murder of a supreme court justice. You'd think that since Coulter is intertwining two murder mysteries that sooner or later the stories will tie in to each other somehow. But no. The only tie-in is the same FBI agents are working on both mysteries. Then at the peak of the book, where the stories questions get answered and the cases get solved, Coulter cops-out with not one, but two criminal confessions. Give us a break! Criminals very rarely confess just because they're going to either die or kill the person they are confessing to and we are to believe that it happened twice in the same book? Oh, and did I mention that there was also a cheesy love story intertwined in the two unrelated mysteries?]
But to give credit where it's due, the main story was a good one. There was a surprising twist that occurred after it was solved that made it a bit more interesting, although irrelevant. I just hate a good story with a bad ending.
Laura's Rating: 2/5
This book is for sale in my half.com shop.
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Friday, June 22, 2007
Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Leaked???
Spoilers from the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, have hit the internet earlier this week. But are they true? One hacker says they are because he hacked into the computers at London publisher Bloomsbury and has evidently posted what he says he read on the internet. Scholastic replied by saying, "There is plenty of material circulating on the Internet, and you can't believe everything you read. No one has it..."
So how do you avoid spoilers before you read the book yourself? What I do is I avoid anything that has to do with it. When the Half Blood Prince was released, it was awhile before I read it because I was re-reading the other books. So when I saw any talk of Harry Potter online, I made a speedy exit. Not to mention I strictly forbade my children to say a word about it around me. ;)
So how do you avoid spoilers before you read the book yourself? What I do is I avoid anything that has to do with it. When the Half Blood Prince was released, it was awhile before I read it because I was re-reading the other books. So when I saw any talk of Harry Potter online, I made a speedy exit. Not to mention I strictly forbade my children to say a word about it around me. ;)
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Blow Out by Catherine Coulter
My husband found this book lying on a beach in North Carolina. He should have left it there because it was probably abandoned because it ended so bad.
I just finished it a couple of days ago and the story was pretty good up until Coulter jumps ship with what I call writer's cop-out. That's when an author can't seem to come up with a way to tie up all the loose ends and resorts to a scenario that is not believable and brings the whole storyline to a ridiculous ending.
Spoiler: highlight area between [ ] to read the spoiler
[First of all the book is called Blow Out. This is in reference to the FBI agent Savich's tire that blows out in the beginning of the story. It is because of the blow out that he comes to know the ghost of a woman who was murdered 20 years ago and want him to solve her murder and help her son. The problem with naming the book Blow Out is that the ghost story is not the main story. The main story is about solving the murder of a supreme court justice. You'd think that since Coulter is intertwining two murder mysteries that sooner or later the stories will tie in to each other somehow. But no. The only tie-in is the same FBI agents are working on both mysteries. Then at the peak of the book, where the stories questions get answered and the cases get solved, Coulter cops-out with not one, but two criminal confessions. Give us a break! Criminals very rarely confess just because they're going to either die or kill the person they are confessing to and we are to believe that it happened twice in the same book? Oh, and did I mention that there was also a cheesy love story intertwined in the two unrelated mysteries?]
But to give credit where it's due, the main story was a good one. There was a surprising twist that occurred after it was solved that made it a bit more interesting, although irrelevant. I just hate a good story with a bad ending.
Laura's Rating: 2/5
This book is for sale in my half.com shop.
I just finished it a couple of days ago and the story was pretty good up until Coulter jumps ship with what I call writer's cop-out. That's when an author can't seem to come up with a way to tie up all the loose ends and resorts to a scenario that is not believable and brings the whole storyline to a ridiculous ending.
Spoiler: highlight area between [ ] to read the spoiler
[First of all the book is called Blow Out. This is in reference to the FBI agent Savich's tire that blows out in the beginning of the story. It is because of the blow out that he comes to know the ghost of a woman who was murdered 20 years ago and want him to solve her murder and help her son. The problem with naming the book Blow Out is that the ghost story is not the main story. The main story is about solving the murder of a supreme court justice. You'd think that since Coulter is intertwining two murder mysteries that sooner or later the stories will tie in to each other somehow. But no. The only tie-in is the same FBI agents are working on both mysteries. Then at the peak of the book, where the stories questions get answered and the cases get solved, Coulter cops-out with not one, but two criminal confessions. Give us a break! Criminals very rarely confess just because they're going to either die or kill the person they are confessing to and we are to believe that it happened twice in the same book? Oh, and did I mention that there was also a cheesy love story intertwined in the two unrelated mysteries?]
But to give credit where it's due, the main story was a good one. There was a surprising twist that occurred after it was solved that made it a bit more interesting, although irrelevant. I just hate a good story with a bad ending.
Laura's Rating: 2/5
This book is for sale in my half.com shop.
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