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Harry Potter: 3 More Things I Learned
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| 8/1/07
| John Mark Reynolds
Posted on 08/01/2007 6:59:32 AM PDT by ParsifalCA
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To: PetroniusMaximus
Duty calls. I'm out for a while.We'll be listening for the flush.
541
posted on
08/01/2007 2:31:33 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a Muggle when I married her.)
To: discostu
Cletus: "Reverend, that post 372's some powerful truth, ain't it?"
Reverend: "Indeed, Brother Cletus."
Nagini: "I hate muggles."
To: TalonDJ; dmz
Hey dont forget that there is tacit approval for public breastfeeding too. Sure, but it is totally over shadowed by the message calling for more gun control.
And the fact that Mundungus has to steal in order to afford food points up the need for Social Security reform and more outpatient alcholism-treatment clinics.
543
posted on
08/01/2007 2:32:29 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(All the main characters die, and then the Prince of Sweden delivers the Epilogue.)
To: Revolting cat!
Dante, I read them in high school, on my own, for fun. And I read HP. You really need to can your sour grapes, it’s freaking pathetic and disgusting. Her writing is more successful than yours, get over it.
544
posted on
08/01/2007 2:32:54 PM PDT
by
discostu
(indecision may or may not be my biggest problem)
To: The Blitherer
545
posted on
08/01/2007 2:33:07 PM PDT
by
Cymbaline
(I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stres)
To: Tanniker Smith
If you want crap masquerading as worthwhile poetry, you can’t do much better than Whitman.*
“I celebrate myself” . . . indeed, he does, and it’s about the only damn thing he knows how to do.
*Okay, except Thoreau. What a poser. “On Walden Pond,” my happy foot. “On my mother’s back forty” is more like it.
546
posted on
08/01/2007 2:33:36 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Cheese . . . milk's leap toward immortality.)
To: Revolting cat!
It's a pity, isn't it. I've just read that in Italy all schoolchildren study The Divine Comedy. In America these days, college graduates couldn't even name the author of it, and then they grow to feed their own children this kind of fluff. And yet, incredibly, I studied The Divine Comedy in high school AND read Harry Potter.
547
posted on
08/01/2007 2:34:07 PM PDT
by
The Blitherer
(What would a Free Man do?)
To: Tanniker Smith
Must fight that brand of BS. Of course I don’t do it often. Can only put up with it once or twice a year, hard on the old ticker.
548
posted on
08/01/2007 2:35:24 PM PDT
by
discostu
(indecision may or may not be my biggest problem)
To: Tijeras_Slim
549
posted on
08/01/2007 2:35:46 PM PDT
by
discostu
(indecision may or may not be my biggest problem)
To: discostu
Laughter is what finishes a boggot off. ;)
To: TalonDJ
I almost forgot about the rampant SLAVERY in the HP books. Clearly pure evil. Is this a bad time to point out that slavery in the Bible was used as late as the 1860's to justify slavery in the United States?
551
posted on
08/01/2007 2:38:18 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Whale oil: The carbon neutral, renewable petroleum alternative)
To: discostu
552
posted on
08/01/2007 2:41:06 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(We all need someone we can bleed on...)
To: Revolting cat!
But there’s nothing wrong with fluff. That’s your core problem on this issue, let’s say every bad thing you say about the books is true (and it’s not, the cliche density thing is pure BS), who gives a crap?! They’re fun books to read, they don’t take that long, and there’s nothing about reading silly fun books that prevents people from reading deep and interesting. There’s room on the bookshelf for Rowling and Dante, room for Craig Shaw Gardner and Tolkien. So it’s fluff, get over it.
553
posted on
08/01/2007 2:44:19 PM PDT
by
discostu
(indecision may or may not be my biggest problem)
To: discostu
Sure, Agatha Christie is fluff, too. But it is well written fluff. The cliche density maybe exaggerated, as I said, I read random two pages in several of the books. Based on that, and having read some critics who cited persuasive evidence, I think those books are simply badly written, if they are richly plotted (though a couple of critics complained that sometimes she has trouble resolving some of these rich plots.) Danielle Steel for the young ones, you might say.
The mania and fanaticism, and the lack of distance to judge their literary value are a separate topic altogether, and I've said enough anyway.
554
posted on
08/01/2007 2:51:58 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(We all need someone we can bleed on...)
To: Politicalmom
So what youre saying that Rowling is REALLY an American citizen,and she runs the Council of Foreign Relations.
________
Exactly. Deep cover.
555
posted on
08/01/2007 2:52:23 PM PDT
by
dmz
To: Corin Stormhands
You guys are gonna convert me yet! The Presbys are alright with beer too.
Come over to the dark side.
556
posted on
08/01/2007 2:55:05 PM PDT
by
jude24
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: Xenalyte
Okay, missing the point there.
But I shan't argue with a warrior princess.
557
posted on
08/01/2007 2:56:02 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a Muggle when I married her.)
To: Tanniker Smith
Mostly that no one sucks like Whitman, except maybe Thoreau. (I can’t stand the Transcendentalists.)
/hijack
558
posted on
08/01/2007 2:57:19 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Cheese . . . milk's leap toward immortality.)
To: Revolting cat!
Well there must be something good about these books. The punchline is simple really, people read fiction for FUN, these books are FUN, therefore there’s nothing wrong with reading them. As for the fanaticism, feces happens. People get fanatical about things, I’ve seen people get fanatical about much dumber things than HP, remember pet rocks? Of course on the other side you’re just as fanatical against the books as the most ardent fan is for them. You need to figure out why you feel this desperate need to go on nearly every Potter thread and tell the world you think they suck. I don’t go on any of the motor sports threads and tell them I don’t like racing (used to like NASCAR but that was a long time ago, I didn’t hit any of the Tour de France threads and tell them bike riding is a stupid sport. I can understand you hating Potter, but it’s not healthy to need to announce it over and over day after day. We like it, you don’t, nuff said.
559
posted on
08/01/2007 2:59:26 PM PDT
by
discostu
(indecision may or may not be my biggest problem)
To: wagglebee
Point conceded.
560
posted on
08/01/2007 3:01:52 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Whale oil: The carbon neutral, renewable petroleum alternative)
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