Spoliers: Anyone finding re-reading the new book hard?

[Holly Golightly]

Well, I'm almost finished re-reading the whole book... I am noticeing that I did miss some of the finer points though... I couldnt' make myself read any slower though, I did try!!! I just had to find out what heppened next!!!

But this time around, I'm noticing alot of things that I didnt' notice before, which is good! LIke possible mentions of things to come... people who are just repeated too many times for nothing further to happen with them... and just stuff like that!!!

[HuffleDuck]

I'm on half of the book. 2nd time.. Somehow i find some parts are funnier than the last time i read. probably cause i speed through the book without enjoying it much.. I don't really found it hard to re-read it since Sirius didn't actually got killed by bellatrix, but fall into te veil.

[Lizzy Bennet]

:grin: I'm on half of the book. 2nd time.. Somehow i find some parts are funnier than the last time i read. probably cause i speed through the book without enjoying it much.. I don't really found it hard to re-read it since Sirius didn't actually got killed by bellatrix, but fall into te veil.

At first, as I posted earlier, I was struggling to re-read book #5 because I was so intense reading it the first time (finishing in under two days! ), and I felt drained and saddened by the death and the mood of the book on the whole. Now, however, having given myself time and taking it *much* slower, I'm enjoying it a lot more, but I wonder WHY I'm reading it so much slower. I mean, intentionally, yes, I'm reading for the detail I missed, but like Blaise said on another thread, I agree, I feel like I'm going at a snail's pace...way slower than I intended!

It's really weird...I don't know why this book is taking me so long to read...it's as though my mind is determined to have the opposite reaction as to the first time I read it, in which I seemed to lose sense of space and time and read with near total absorption. I still think Sirius's death will be hard to read, especially since, I'll be picking up on all the foreshadowing, thinking to myself how that's one of the last times Harry will ever get to talk to Sirius, how it could have all been different, and that, this time, I'll understand fully what happened when Sirius fell through the veil instead of being stunned and confused.

Honestly, like another poster said (the one who typed about Ron and the "Accio Brains!"...I can't remember who right now! ), I was suspecting EVERYONE of being the one to die that when it finally got around to Sirius, I was like, "That's it? That's the death...huh??? Is that for real?" I was stunned, confused, and let-down, if that makes sense...there had been so many near-deaths right before. It's only later that the full impact of it has hit me...death can be...so sudden and instantanous...and even accidental...in a blink of an eye, they are gone...not looking forward to that part of book 5, especially with how Harry reacts afterwards (which, I was fascinated by how Harry's reactions seemed to mirror how *I* felt as the reader! ) . Thank goodness for the 'accio brains' part!


~ Lizzy

[Blaise Zabini]

Lol, I'm having many of the same problems! The first time I read the book, I read it much faster than I would have liked, but now that I'm re-reading , i've been unable to read more than a few paragraphs at a time! It's making me quite angry and I've no idea why my once-intelligent reading level has suddenly dropped and I've no longer and interest in it! Grr. Must lock self in room with nothing but OotP...

[Enchanter]

u r probably going slower becuz u have read it before aand are bored with some parts. i found skipping a couple o pages was useful