another sodding book!

 

I know who dies.

 

Why do books bother you so CC? You never read any of them..!!

 

it's like on the news, people are talking about it

it's getting on my ****. I'd burn the lot of 'em

give me Penthouse and some nice hairy gash any day

 

Its a load of tripe!!

 

I am sick of it. It's a ****ing kids book, fair enough but all the adults getting sucked in as well FFS

I HATE Harry ****ing Potter

 

BS - Who dies? I don't wanna read the book but wanna have 'ammunition' for anyone that goes on and on and on about harry potter

Apparently, no other book exists apart from potter

 

A complete waste of time IMHO, can't believe how hung up the world is on it I mean, opening libraries and shops at 12am so some sad people can get them straight away - - the world is going mad, for god sake, is it so difficult to wait until the shops open in the morning

Pathetic

Do I get a prize for the most in one post?

 

Sirius Black(sp)

Apparently he's Harry uncle.

I don't give a toss I just wanted to find out so I could wind up the kids.

 

on the news the other day it was Beckam and the trout in Japan, followed by Harry bleeding Potter. The whole world is being taken over by hype

FFS I don't give a **** about Harry Potter or David fecking Beckam

 

CC, what was the last book you read in its entirety? Honestly.

How can you criticise HP? They're ok as books, and are encouraging a lot of kids to pick up a book, many for the first time probably. What's the harm in that? You can't blame the book itself for all the hype surrounding it...

 

Tel you're spot on. Would you rather have kids 24/7 on Playstation or actually reading a book and recognising that there may be something to this reading a story lark. In my day it was Biggles today it's HP. D

 

I read the first book and found it to be massively derivative of other people's work to the point of being a lame pastiche.

I can't understand for the life of me why adults would choose to read them.
The Oone good thing I can say for the series is that anything which encourages children to read has to be a good thing.

 

Tel Boy I do agree that there is a lot of merit in getting kids away from the playstation and into books. If I had kids old enough then I'd probs encourage them to read the books, but as an adult I am sick of hearing other adults banging on about how they've bought a fecuking kids book

 

They do enough reading at school, evening is game time.
Look at me for example. on computers non-stop since the age of 7 when I got a spectrum, Played computer games pretty much most evenings and weekends - only ear read comics when I was in school, and yet now read Anne Mcaffrey and David Eddings books, and got several diplomas and a degree at university.... so I turned out ok.

Getting back onto the subject, I also don't really give a **** about HP.
If those books float your boat, good for you, I prefer something a bit more intellectually challenging.

 

Finished the book last night. It's cracking , but it's not that special as a book...

But I like that sort of thing (Discworld / Terry Pratchett leaps to mind)

Anything that exercises minds is, IMHO, good.

 

Biggles was great,as was Rockfist Rogan,The Cannonball Kid and Just William!

Les

 

Yeah! same here! I'm sick of hearing about it in the media, and people saying I should read it

I don't ever plan on reading the tosh either

 

You have to at least read some of it in order to be able to make informed comment on how poor it is.

Try reading a few pages of some victim's copy (everyone seems to have one-BAA!)and decide for yourself- total rubbish or merely derivative crap? The choice is yours.

 

But entertaining to kids Nacro, and that's the whole point.

I'd bet 90% of blokes read nothing more than The Sun or such like. And yet they're all (mostly) allowed to vote, often in a vacuum of relevant and accurate information. Anything which bucks this trend has to be applauded, even if we do have to suffer a few weeks of overkill, in my opinion.

Don't keep knocking it. What is it, are people jealous *they* weren't the ones who thought of it and earned X amount of millions? Is the fact that the author's a woman somehow relevant?

[Edited by TelBoy - 6/25/2003 7:26:00 AM]

 

Well they do say, "you are what you read".

Case.Rested.

ps, you'll need to blow the dust of the 1970's editions for hairy, furburgers aint fashionable any more





edit cos I cant spell.

[Edited by mj - 6/24/2003 9:35:33 PM]

 

before i left school alot of the girls in my year for some reason started to read Harry Potter. i was like what fukking age are u IDIOTS. i have nor ever will read Harry Potter, seems to be all these i like ROck teenagers tripping off there heads on LSD are reading it and that Lord Of The Rings. these people need to get out and find friends instead of burying there heads in books.

 

Telboy quote:
"Is the fact that the author's a woman somehow relevant? "

Why on earth would an authors gender be relevant to anyone?


My beef with it is all the adults who read it and then rattle on about how great it is. It might be OK for kids, in fact it's great for kids, as I said before anything that gets them reading. The sad thing as far as I'm concerned are the muppets I used to see reading it on the train in the morning- for christ's sake it's worrying to see grown men and women presumably in responsible jobs reading a very derivative kid's book.

 

What worries me is that these kids grow up on a diet of bland cr@p and then think that some idiot like Archer is a good writer[img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Try a bit of George Orwell if you want some *quality* reading.

UB

 

Sirius Black dies?
ooohhh noooooooo!!!
Thats a few pages saved then

 

Nacro, i appreciate what you're saying, but my point is; isn't it better that they're reading *something* literary rather than some inane magazine or something? At least it gets the imagination going to an extent. Harry Potter doesn't have to be exclusively a children's book, though i'd agree with UB, there are certainly more involving things out there, if that's the sort of thing you want to read.

Mentioning JK Rowling's gender might be totally irrelevant, i grant you. But it wouldn't be the first time somebody very successful has been knocked, just because that somebody is a woman...

 

Tried to read a couple of the books, found them hard going and just too 'childish' for me. Shame 'cause i had hear good things about them.
1st film - Pants
2nd film - better, much better until the end sequence when Robbie Coltraine came back and they all started clapping, almost brought a tear to my eye - though i was gonna throw-up!.

I think i am too cynical for Harry Potter to have any effect on me other than to make me vomit.

[Edited by Paul Habgood - 6/25/2003 8:25:05 AM]

 

It might be worth reading George Orwell's books, because that is where we are going!.

Les

 

mr cynical les. i assume you are taking animal farm and 1984? i have to say we are getting there but not quite.............. no on second thoughts maybe you are not so cynical, just reading about how much this gestapo bull**** government get away with nowadays, but then again is that because they are more accountable now and are now taken to task for a while before it is swept under the carpet. oh no.....les' cynicism is rubbing off.......

cheers

big sinky

 

1984 really did happen 19 yrs ago (some would argue 5 yrs early in '79)- only we were all too busy making money too notice it.

All this new labour double speak is starting to do my head in!