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Reading Experience Poll

Most of us are done reading HBP by now, and most of us also enjoyed the book a lot. Still, there have been several posts about how our reactions to the new book itself, to having a new book, to fandom erupting in about equal amounts of wank and squee, were different from what we expected. I'm curious to see if we can sum it up a bit.

Poll #538074 Reading HBP

Did you go about spoilers the way you meant to?

Yes - no spoilers!
12(57.1%)
Yes - spoiled!
2(9.5%)
No - I couldn't resist peeking under a few cuts.
3(14.3%)
No - some mean folks ruined it for me.
4(19.0%)

Did you read it the way you thought you would?

Yes, I know how I like to do these things.
16(72.7%)
Yes, mostly. I couldn't resist peeking ahead a little, though.
4(18.2%)
No, not really. Once I really got it in my hands, I felt differently about it.
1(4.5%)
No, not at all. RL things I had to deal with came up.
1(4.5%)

Regardless of whether your pet theories were confirmed or your OTP ships turned canon, did you feel the way you had expected to?

No - I wasn't expecting to feel so overwhelmed.
5(22.7%)
No - I was expecting to feel more pleased about the things I had predicted coming true and the like.
3(13.6%)
Yes - I knew I could rely on Jo to give us a great ride.
5(22.7%)
Well - about canon, yes. About fandom, no.
9(40.9%)


Also, I just finished the 37th crochet patch for molly_ish. It's not to late to join, or to invite other friends. The more, the merrier!