you have poisoned the minds of our youth with your gibbering Ron and pretentious Hermione... your stereptypical charachters show no growth, only flat reactions to immediate issues... why then do i have this undeniable urge to get the new book? MARKETING STRATEGY

she's such a turd. and harry potter sucks. what really gets on my nerves though is that the books are bloody expensive (not that i have ever or would ever ever ever buy one) but are printed on such shit quality paper.

I honestly don't see how anyone over the age of 12 can read those things. I read some of one once and I could feel my braincells committing suicide. It honestly felt like I was reading a movie script. Which, in a way, I was. It's 200 pages of cheesy dialogue and "descriptions" that seemed like little more than stage directions.

i needed barf bags and a lobotomy after five pages.

They are childrens books aren't they?

how many children's books are around five hundred pages...?

Ones that are for children who refuse to fall asleep?

I've read one chapter of the first book to my son. I thought it was shite but he hung on every word

enough said I think. saw the second film recently. the ending was the best part.......I think they call it the credits!

I am so glad to finally read a thread that doens't think harry potter is the b all and the end all. I really don't understand why adults would want to read this!

stop complaining! you're the one reading childrens books...did you really expect it to be wholesome piece of literature?

There's a difference bewteen re-reading a book you read as a child and going haywire over a kids book that as just been published.

erm, Mark Twain anyone?

I tried reading the first book, I could not finish the first chapter. Too juvenile.

This is exactly why i believe half the adult population are illiterate.

Okay, I'll stand up and be the dork. I've enjoyed the books. They aren't Stranger in a Strange Land, but there is an enjoyment to them. What I find amusing is that (and you have to remember i live in the bible belt) a good number of people here think they're evil.

Alright, back to your bashing.

Odd, I think Harry Potter's honestly one of the best series in the history of English fiction. I can think of only a handful of books that I've ever read (a number probably pushing a thousand, at least) that could match the Harry Potter books for quality of writing, character depth, realism of emotion and motivation, and storytelling. It's also almost impossible to find a decent series that increases, rather than decreases, in quality with each subsequent addition as HP does.

Oh, I'm sorry, was that not the cool thing to say? Don't get me wrong, I'd love to "rebel" against the mainstream and say Harry Potter's a piece of crap (I certainly didn't think I'd like the series when I started reading the first book), but it's simply not.

For that matter, I could easily name a dozen "literary masterpieces" that couldn't hold a candle to Rowling's work. Any given page in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" has about five times as much literary merit as all of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" put together.


*points at Dallantra* I am a bigger, a bigger dork than thou!

:upyours:

now thaaat's a brilliant rebutal. *glances at the bird unimpressed.*

Anyone who would call an owl Hedwig deserves to be shot. :firing: