Its a very confused feeling to be proved wrong. Your stuck finding it hard to admit but yet, you need to voice out how wrong you have been for so long. I can proudly say that I was one of those people who truly detested Harry Potter. It was during the phase of my life where everything my sister did was lame. Of course she was a die hard fan. It was after the phase when everything my sister did I needed to do, obviously! ( I'm guessing every younger sibling goes through this, or maybe it was just me....I hope not) That could explain why I used to keep wearing the glasses of everyone in the house till I got short sight myself. I still remember marking the day as one of my happiest.
I recently went over to my friend Dion's house and borrowed the entire collection from her. She, part of the long list of people who have been pestering me to read the series, had lent it to me saying the words I had grown used to - "you have not read it yet!" I must inform you that I'm a very slow reader. I tend to take four days to finish a 'Famous Five' book. The problem is that I cannot do continuous reading for more that one hour.( A habit I have for not just reading I must add.) My best record yet was finishing a 'Sidney Sheldon' book in two weeks! I would look at the thick book with a sense of enormous achievement bellowing in my eyes. Little did I know that The one book I detested would have me so hooked on that I would finish it in one day! I was amazed at myself as the pages seemed to go on without me even realizing it! And just like that I was done with not just the first book but also the second and within no time I'm somewhere in the middle of the third.
Thus, I find myself in a fix. I have to talk to someone about how much I an enjoying the book, and I want to avoid the obvious "I told you so" I will most definitely get. Of course I could not contain myself any longer and blurted out my embarrassing secret to all I know! They are all eagerly waiting till I finish the series and cal have loud pointless discussions on it. The most surprising about it is that I also have a repugnant habit of loosing interest ( if i may call it that), and it has not inflicted me yet! However, lets see how long this Harry Potter phase is going to last.
I recently went over to my friend Dion's house and borrowed the entire collection from her. She, part of the long list of people who have been pestering me to read the series, had lent it to me saying the words I had grown used to - "you have not read it yet!" I must inform you that I'm a very slow reader. I tend to take four days to finish a 'Famous Five' book. The problem is that I cannot do continuous reading for more that one hour.( A habit I have for not just reading I must add.) My best record yet was finishing a 'Sidney Sheldon' book in two weeks! I would look at the thick book with a sense of enormous achievement bellowing in my eyes. Little did I know that The one book I detested would have me so hooked on that I would finish it in one day! I was amazed at myself as the pages seemed to go on without me even realizing it! And just like that I was done with not just the first book but also the second and within no time I'm somewhere in the middle of the third.
Thus, I find myself in a fix. I have to talk to someone about how much I an enjoying the book, and I want to avoid the obvious "I told you so" I will most definitely get. Of course I could not contain myself any longer and blurted out my embarrassing secret to all I know! They are all eagerly waiting till I finish the series and cal have loud pointless discussions on it. The most surprising about it is that I also have a repugnant habit of loosing interest ( if i may call it that), and it has not inflicted me yet! However, lets see how long this Harry Potter phase is going to last.
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