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Missing from 'Harry Potter" – a real moral struggle,
Christian Science Monitor ^
| 07.25.2007
| By Jenny Sawyer
Posted on 07/25/2007 1:00:58 PM PDT by meandog
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Without inner conflict, the hero's tale was hollow.
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posted on
07/25/2007 1:01:02 PM PDT
by
meandog
To: meandog
To: meandog
I thought this was going to be about the “17 missing pages”!
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posted on
07/25/2007 1:03:53 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: meandog
Once the lemming mania has died, no one is going to reado those 4,195 pages. Wait 5 years.
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posted on
07/25/2007 1:04:10 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(We all need someone we can bleed on...)
To: meandog
Some answered the question as to who dies in the Potty book with:
“God dies”.
I have not read nor seen the movies and neither will my children, my brother read some of the books and saw one movie and he said Rowlings is a hack, without reading a word I agree.
To: meandog
Geez, did she even read the book?
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posted on
07/25/2007 1:05:42 PM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
To: meandog
Jenny, your sour grapes are ready.
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posted on
07/25/2007 1:06:00 PM PDT
by
50sDad
(Angels on asteroids are abducting crop circles!)
To: Resolute Conservative
without reading a word I agree.
That's obviously a well thought out and researched opinion...
To: Resolute Conservative
There really is nothing more pathetic on the planet than someone that will proudly declare they have no actual exposure to someone’s work but they’re a hack. I’ve called many people a hack in my time, but I least bothered to read a few pages first.
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posted on
07/25/2007 1:08:28 PM PDT
by
discostu
(indecision may or may not be my biggest problem)
To: meandog
Present in all of Potter is the biggest moral struggle of all.
the struggle of the things of this world or the things of the Lord.
and potter surely isn't of the Lord.
To: Resolute Conservative
Yeah, 325 million copies and you think you can agree she is a hack. Millions of kids reading just for the joy of it again and it's a bad thing to you...
idiot
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posted on
07/25/2007 1:08:57 PM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
To: Resolute Conservative
without reading a word I agree... Thanks fer yer expert opinion.
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posted on
07/25/2007 1:09:04 PM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(I drink coffee for your protection.)
To: Abathar
Geez, did she even read the book? Not the same one any of the rest of us read.
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posted on
07/25/2007 1:09:36 PM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(I drink coffee for your protection.)
To: 50sDad
“Jenny, your sour grapes are ready.”
yep that’s what i was thinking as well.
maybe if jk rowling ever writes another book she can call
jenny for some pointers
To: meandog
I could not put my finger on what it was about these novels that bothered me apart from the appallingly bad writing, why I did not find them compelling or even readable. This article explains it.
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posted on
07/25/2007 1:10:02 PM PDT
by
Emrys
(Fashion says "Me, too." Style says, "Only me.")
To: discostu
The trolls are out in force - be careful not to feed them the negative attention that they love. ;)
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posted on
07/25/2007 1:10:21 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: Battle Hymn of the Republic
Have you read any of the books?
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posted on
07/25/2007 1:10:29 PM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
To: Resolute Conservative
I have not read nor seen the movies and neither will my children, my brother read some of the books and saw one movie and he said Rowlings is a hack, without reading a word I agree.
I've only read the first book, and I've only seen glimpses of the movies as I flip through HBO channels. But any book that can entertain so many children and adults has a great deal going for it. By creating a series of books that have millions of young people reading instead of killing zombies in some virtual world, Rowlings has already done more for literature than most authors could ever dream of doing. She's no hack.
To: meandog
"lacks the cornerstone of almost all great children's literature: the hero's moral journey" This judgement comming from a murderous cult mouth piece, founded by a charlatan fraud is not worth spit.
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posted on
07/25/2007 1:10:50 PM PDT
by
Positive
(Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
To: Abathar
Geez, did she even read the book? Nope. And did you happen to notice that the strongest negative opinions on this thread are from people who are proud and arrogant about not having ever even read the book?
I wonder why that is?
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posted on
07/25/2007 1:11:15 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are a Nation of Laws... IGNORED Laws...)
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