if i only knew...

I managed to get

I managed to get my hands on my favourite writer's newest book out last week but made a mistake. I am on a mailing list for fans of his writing and of course everyone was jumping on the book when it came out two weeks ago, and now they are all posting their reviews. And even if i don't want to read the reviews, i read the subjects of the messages and it's clear that they all think this is something that is not as good as his previous books. :( So now i am looking forward to it a lot les than i originally did...

This happened to me all the time when i was working for the now defunct Globopolis.com website, translating movie reviews. By definition, reviews come out before the movies, so i could *never* escape knowing all about the movie that i was just going to see. Which sucks. Just as much as with books from your favourite author. (DC, if you ever read this by any chance, we still love you and love your words! :) )