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peekadora
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19 July 2007 @ 11:03 am

Do you take your tea with spoilers, m'dear?

Rowling and Bloomsbury's reaction to the NY Times Deathly Hallows review.

Excerpt:
[A Bloomsbury spokeswoman] likened the events in the United States to the Boston Tea Party, a protest by American colonists against Britain in 1773.

"But over here it is blockades as usual, with the embargo being enforced unflinchingly and without exception by all our customers," she said.

Considering that the U.S. won the Revolutionary War, the Boston Tea Party allusion isn't a very positive image to invoke on the part of the publishers.

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kaylara on July 19th, 2007 04:19 pm (UTC)

How incredibly stupid. -_-

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peekadora on July 19th, 2007 04:49 pm (UTC)

Stupid? Much?

Don't crucio me please...!

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al_bus_sever_us on July 19th, 2007 04:21 pm (UTC)

hahaha

I don't think anyone was protesting the embargo. I think it's just a combination of people making mistakes and people wanting to reveal what they'd found

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peekadora on July 19th, 2007 04:51 pm (UTC)

We were just curious, HONEST!

(Actually, my story is I heard there were spoilers and said to my Mom, "It's the real McCoy!" and she was like, "NUH UH!" ... UH HUH! She agrees with me now though.)

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sugar_sex on July 19th, 2007 05:08 pm (UTC)

peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:17 pm (UTC)

katschmiddy on July 19th, 2007 04:24 pm (UTC)

Methinks they're possibly being a tiny wee bit overdramatic.

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peekadora on July 19th, 2007 04:52 pm (UTC)

Only a wee bit.

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hokorii on July 19th, 2007 04:25 pm (UTC)

Boston Tea Party? Thats a bit much don't you think? Comparing our freedom to a fictitious children's book..

Anyway this is the final nail in the coffin I think. The carpet book is definitely real. She clearly states that the reporter has spoiled it...we can't be spoiled if it's fake correct?

real.

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peekadora on July 19th, 2007 04:52 pm (UTC)

It's as real as you or I.

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stefanie_bean on July 19th, 2007 04:25 pm (UTC)

Especially lame comment when you think of what the British were doing to *Scotland* at the time (ethnic cleansing of the Highlands, anyone?) At least we won - Scotland didn't didn't even get its own Parliament until 1998.

It's really bad form to brag about colonial policies when you consider their flagship author is ... a Scotswoman.

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peekadora on July 19th, 2007 04:53 pm (UTC)

I'd love to see JRK's two cents on THAT one.

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sugar_sex on July 19th, 2007 05:12 pm (UTC)

peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:17 pm (UTC)

(no subject) - (Anonymous) on July 19th, 2007 08:07 pm (UTC)

ohyeahsayswho on July 20th, 2007 12:48 am (UTC)

(Anonymous) on July 19th, 2007 04:29 pm (UTC)
This is cool

http://www.simfone.co.uk

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sugar_sex on July 19th, 2007 04:30 pm (UTC)

Woah. Harry Potter is Serious Business, people. Even the author/publishers think so.

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peekadora on July 19th, 2007 04:54 pm (UTC)

For a company and woman that rich you'd think they could relax a little.

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sugar_sex on July 19th, 2007 05:04 pm (UTC)

peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:08 pm (UTC)

ryuutchi on July 19th, 2007 08:45 pm (UTC)

clevermonikerr on July 19th, 2007 04:45 pm (UTC)

Anyone want to dress up like an Indian and throw some Harry Potter in the harbor with me?

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caveat_lect0r on July 19th, 2007 04:48 pm (UTC)

Uh, me know you.

Wasn't that the original password?

Although IMO Bloomsbury et al is a teensy bit disrespectful to American history, but whatever.

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clevermonikerr on July 19th, 2007 04:52 pm (UTC)

caveat_lect0r on July 19th, 2007 05:04 pm (UTC)

clevermonikerr on July 19th, 2007 05:06 pm (UTC)

decadent_chains on July 19th, 2007 07:06 pm (UTC)

peekadora on July 19th, 2007 04:56 pm (UTC)

dizzyellie on July 19th, 2007 04:45 pm (UTC)

Also pretty rude, as that event is seen as heroic by Americans (I for one named my son for Samuel Adams, the man behind the Boston Tea Party). So a heroic, historic stand against unfair interference from an over-seas ruler is comparable to a few fans reading a book early or reporters writing reviews? Uh-huh.

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peekadora on July 19th, 2007 04:57 pm (UTC)

Oh absolutely because, as pointed out above, Harry Potter is Serious Business.

And that's so cool you named your kid after Samuel Adams.

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dizzyellie on July 19th, 2007 05:08 pm (UTC)

peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:10 pm (UTC)

jollycynic on July 19th, 2007 04:46 pm (UTC)

Some people just can't get over old grudges. One or two Brits can forgive us for ruining all that perfectly good tea, at last, but the Carpet Book Leak is proving to be divisive in exactly the same manner.

Holysaywhunow?

We will review your books until you give us our freedom! Or at least validate our B&N discount cards at your W.H. Smiths, plz.

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peekadora on July 19th, 2007 04:59 pm (UTC)

"We will review your books until you give us our freedom!"
XD
I loled.

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gehayi on July 19th, 2007 05:13 pm (UTC)

caveat_lect0r on July 19th, 2007 04:47 pm (UTC)

LOLLOLLOL JKR wanks too!

This is the BEST THING IMAGINABLE. When anticipating the Potterdammerung, I never imagined it would be this spectacular.

JKR: Oh noes my wishes are being disregarded treason!

Bloomsbury: Those damned Colonials, damn them!

SO FUCKING BRILLIANT I LOVE IT

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sugar_sex on July 19th, 2007 04:59 pm (UTC)

Harry Potter inspires the crazy in everyone.

This is the BEST THING IMAGINABLE.

And the book hasn't even officially come out yet.

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peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:01 pm (UTC)

xenophilius on July 19th, 2007 04:53 pm (UTC)

*Snickers* Methinks they're going a bit to far into the territory marked 'dramatic hyperbole' here.

This is definitely one of those moments where I'm vaguely embarrassed to be English.

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peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:03 pm (UTC)

Awww, don't be too embarrased. Spokespeople are crazy all over.

I still love "Must Do Better", by the way.

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xenophilius on July 19th, 2007 05:10 pm (UTC)

peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:19 pm (UTC)

akaich0u on July 19th, 2007 04:53 pm (UTC)

What a stupid connection. The Boston Tea Party was a serious event while the nations were on the brink of war, and much more important morals/ideals were involved.

It's a book for Christ's sake.

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peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:06 pm (UTC)

"It's a book for Christ's sake."
So was Uncle Tom's Cabin. "So you're the little lady that started this big war?"

Oh, fsck.

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akaich0u on July 19th, 2007 05:10 pm (UTC)

peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:11 pm (UTC)

(Anonymous) on July 19th, 2007 05:00 pm (UTC)

What is the Boston Tea party? Is it like the Teddy Bear's picnic?

JKR thought people would bow down to her wishes. Humph! This is what you get when you start hiding minor plot details like the title of GOF.

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clevermonikerr on July 19th, 2007 05:07 pm (UTC)

:(
this makes me sad.

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peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:07 pm (UTC)

aurorasinistra on July 19th, 2007 05:00 pm (UTC)

Oh dear. How unfortunate.

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peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:31 pm (UTC)

I love your icon.

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aurorasinistra on July 19th, 2007 05:35 pm (UTC)

lupinsmoon12391 on July 19th, 2007 05:06 pm (UTC)

Dickensan ardor? Man, the NY Times reviewer was nice to her, lol. Bit dramatic, but I could see why she's pissed. The Deathly Hallows was one of the more interesting parts.

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peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:13 pm (UTC)

The NY Times review went over the top, IMO, as did the others, not because they reviewed it BEFORE the 21st, but because the review gave away TONS of details.

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sunshineyellow on July 19th, 2007 05:09 pm (UTC)

OMg they really compared it to the Boston Tea Party? I'd think they've got enough problems on their hands that they'd avoid stoking old colonial tensions (which really do exist, heads up brits).

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peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:14 pm (UTC)

Colonial tensions made even more ironic because it was the Scholastic (American) not Bloomsbury (British) leak.

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alasandalack on July 19th, 2007 05:10 pm (UTC)

wow. they're incoherent with rage.

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dizzyellie on July 19th, 2007 05:15 pm (UTC)

Heh. That made me giggle. :)

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(no subject) - (Anonymous) on July 19th, 2007 05:18 pm (UTC)

peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:36 pm (UTC)

i_like_tuesdays on July 19th, 2007 05:15 pm (UTC)

Now I'm wondering what the colonial version of Harry Potter would be like.

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peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:26 pm (UTC)

Salem?

American Wizards need more representation. Or am I just a biased American?

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i_like_tuesdays on July 19th, 2007 05:29 pm (UTC)

peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:33 pm (UTC)

decadent_chains on July 19th, 2007 06:58 pm (UTC)

jollycynic on July 19th, 2007 05:34 pm (UTC)

sugar_sex on July 19th, 2007 05:18 pm (UTC)

I would have loved to had seen what would have happened if the NY Times gave Deathly Hallows a bad review.

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i_like_tuesdays on July 19th, 2007 05:27 pm (UTC)

People protesting on the streets! Bonfires of newspapers! Mass cancelling of subscriptions! The wank would be glorious.

P.S. Nice icon!

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aurorasinistra on July 19th, 2007 05:38 pm (UTC)

sugar_sex on July 19th, 2007 05:40 pm (UTC)

aurorasinistra on July 19th, 2007 05:43 pm (UTC)

sugar_sex on July 19th, 2007 05:45 pm (UTC)

aurorasinistra on July 19th, 2007 05:51 pm (UTC)

peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:48 pm (UTC)

aurorasinistra on July 19th, 2007 05:52 pm (UTC)

peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:55 pm (UTC)

pippindork on July 19th, 2007 05:49 pm (UTC)

aurorasinistra on July 19th, 2007 06:26 pm (UTC)

peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:28 pm (UTC)

sugar_sex on July 19th, 2007 05:43 pm (UTC)

peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:47 pm (UTC)

04nbod on July 19th, 2007 05:22 pm (UTC)

the american side has let the team down but I fail to see a comparison to the tea party. It was not an act of defiance against the restrictions on behalf of the companies just a mistake and a fan after some fame.

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peekadora on July 19th, 2007 05:30 pm (UTC)

Sometimes spokespeople should just really not speak.

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alasandalack on July 19th, 2007 05:33 pm (UTC)

adaveen on July 19th, 2007 06:11 pm (UTC)

We Yanks hate teh pompous. Loud, gaudy, coarse or vulgar - oh yeah - we'll eat that up with a spoon. (Cause it hurts more.)

But pompous? Self-important? We have issues.

I understand that the main purpose of the embargo was to prevent fans, especially children, who wanted to wait from having the surprise ruined for them.

To become mad at a reviewer for the New York Times?

Jo, sweetheart, you're f**king lucky that the New York Times deigned to review your book in the first bloody place! A review by NYT can make or break an entire literary career!

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peekadora on July 19th, 2007 07:05 pm (UTC)

It was a rather glowing review to boot. What happened to, "Thank you for your kind words."?

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brighty11 on July 19th, 2007 06:44 pm (UTC)

What next, little kids running down the street screaming "THE PUBLISHERS ARE COMING! THE PUBLISHERS ARE COMING!"?

I'm not sure if I should laugh at the idiocy or be annoyed. Plus, the analogy doesn't seem to work in my mind very well... there wasn't a blockade, there was a boycott. *confused*

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aurorasinistra on July 19th, 2007 06:48 pm (UTC)

Well, funnily enough, this IS what is happening. Imagine the horror of all the little kiddies who are now afraid of jail because they emailed a link to a friend?

Parents are probably hiring lawyers all over the country. :)

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peekadora on July 19th, 2007 07:11 pm (UTC)

peekadora on July 19th, 2007 07:09 pm (UTC)

brighty11 on July 19th, 2007 07:19 pm (UTC)

ohyeahsayswho on July 20th, 2007 12:56 am (UTC)

People are overreacting here. Has it occurred to no one that isn't an insult? lol

*shakes head at how crazy JKR and her books have made the whole world*

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