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Ok, I tried to read it last night, I really did. I got as far as him with some giant, taking him round a shop to choose a wand or something.
Christ almighty, what you are people doing reading this for? Sure, there's some imagination there but the style?
"Harry picked up his hat and tried it on, he moved it about and it fit just fine"
??????????
That's the sound of Rainman writing a story, I bet the editors put the punctuation in whilst Rowling just muuuuhed into a dictaphone with no pauses for breath
"and then the wizard said i dont like you but then harry ran down the path and he ran into a bush and it hurt him and he said owee and then wizard said there there thats ok and harry cried but used magic to make himself feel better and then they went to hogwarts" etc etc.
Read decent books unless you are a child. Or a retarded adult.
Decent books like Catch-22, Bukowski, Edward Bunker, Shakespeare.
It makes me furious that grown-ups read this drivel and think it makes them clever
I'm amazed more of you dont fall down a lot when walking.
Harry Potter? I'd like to throw them into the sea and send adults to Borders with a list of adult authors.
"Oh come on, it's just fun"
Yes, badly written fun. Try Phillip Pullman for fantasy writings, or try reading Dashiel Hammett, Elmore Leonard, ANYTHING but a poorly written children's book.
Next time you see an adult reading one, walk over and say "Has mummy or daddy left you here alone?"
"...what?"
"Would you like me to help you find them?"
"....what??"
Then knock the book from their hands, push them to the floor and walk away muttering "####ing retard"
Christ almighty, what you are people doing reading this for? Sure, there's some imagination there but the style?
"Harry picked up his hat and tried it on, he moved it about and it fit just fine"
??????????
That's the sound of Rainman writing a story, I bet the editors put the punctuation in whilst Rowling just muuuuhed into a dictaphone with no pauses for breath
"and then the wizard said i dont like you but then harry ran down the path and he ran into a bush and it hurt him and he said owee and then wizard said there there thats ok and harry cried but used magic to make himself feel better and then they went to hogwarts" etc etc.
Read decent books unless you are a child. Or a retarded adult.
Decent books like Catch-22, Bukowski, Edward Bunker, Shakespeare.
It makes me furious that grown-ups read this drivel and think it makes them clever
I'm amazed more of you dont fall down a lot when walking.
Harry Potter? I'd like to throw them into the sea and send adults to Borders with a list of adult authors.
"Oh come on, it's just fun"
Yes, badly written fun. Try Phillip Pullman for fantasy writings, or try reading Dashiel Hammett, Elmore Leonard, ANYTHING but a poorly written children's book.
Next time you see an adult reading one, walk over and say "Has mummy or daddy left you here alone?"
"...what?"
"Would you like me to help you find them?"
"....what??"
Then knock the book from their hands, push them to the floor and walk away muttering "####ing retard"
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Yeah, I was joking. I get what you mean, the sort of timeless School Days with the friends who you can trust with anything yadda yadda ideal.
Yeah I didn't mean in story, just in atmosphere
Blank wrote:
> Well if we go by IQ tests, I think I'm a genius by the BBC's one. And
> I'll read Harry Potter.
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*sniggers*
Yeah, IQ tests on BBC websites are genuine and valid.
An IQ test, a legit one, takes pretty much all morning. It's all manner of tests, from verbal dexterity to the sorts of mass-market guff on the BBC site or that "test the nation" thing.
I had mine from a Harley Street Consultant after my accident, a whole barrage of psychometric evaluations and tests.
Results?
147, which officially places me in the top 4% of the population. And Harry Potter is written for children.
Whether adults enjoy them or not is moot, they are kids books.
Read by people with ironic hair that think buying a Camberwick Green DVD allows them to capture their childhood and relentlessly pursue the latest zeitgeist in an effort to disguise the frantic, empty clawing they feel when faced with silence and the stark realisation they are reading a children's book.
> Well if we go by IQ tests, I think I'm a genius by the BBC's one. And
> I'll read Harry Potter.
--
*sniggers*
Yeah, IQ tests on BBC websites are genuine and valid.
An IQ test, a legit one, takes pretty much all morning. It's all manner of tests, from verbal dexterity to the sorts of mass-market guff on the BBC site or that "test the nation" thing.
I had mine from a Harley Street Consultant after my accident, a whole barrage of psychometric evaluations and tests.
Results?
147, which officially places me in the top 4% of the population. And Harry Potter is written for children.
Whether adults enjoy them or not is moot, they are kids books.
Read by people with ironic hair that think buying a Camberwick Green DVD allows them to capture their childhood and relentlessly pursue the latest zeitgeist in an effort to disguise the frantic, empty clawing they feel when faced with silence and the stark realisation they are reading a children's book.
Well, Mallory Towers has got a bit of Hogwarts about it, yeah. Although Darryl Rivers has 2 "nice, well spoken" parents that aren't dead. And her head isn't mangled in any way, except when a nice, well spoken lacrosse player cracks her over the head with those gay net things.
But in a nice, well spoken way, of course.
But in a nice, well spoken way, of course.
Stryke wrote:
> OK, this is embarrassing, but I've read them, I got bored on holiday
> when it rained non-stop for a week and read my sisters copies.
>
> I am right that Mallory Towers are the ones with Darryl Rivers and her
> little posse of "nice, well spoken girls"? They love school
> and basically play lacrosse all day or swim?
*sniggers*
yesh those are the ones.
Did HP not remind you of them?
*sweet smile*
> OK, this is embarrassing, but I've read them, I got bored on holiday
> when it rained non-stop for a week and read my sisters copies.
>
> I am right that Mallory Towers are the ones with Darryl Rivers and her
> little posse of "nice, well spoken girls"? They love school
> and basically play lacrosse all day or swim?
*sniggers*
yesh those are the ones.
Did HP not remind you of them?
*sweet smile*
Blank wrote:
> No Unbeliever, hating Harry Potter has been and always will be the
> "cool" thing to do.
Not sure whether hating Potter is cool or uncool. Where did you get that idea from? I didn't say I hated Potter to be cool.
> You can say "it's an isolated one-off" as much as you like,
> but it doesn't stop the fact that you have formulated an ill informed
> opinion and then shouted it from the rooftops.
Hardly shouted it, just agreed with Goatboy about hating seeing adults reading Potter. If you like Potter, fair enough. It's not for me. I grew out of reading kids books quite a few years ago.
> No Unbeliever, hating Harry Potter has been and always will be the
> "cool" thing to do.
Not sure whether hating Potter is cool or uncool. Where did you get that idea from? I didn't say I hated Potter to be cool.
> You can say "it's an isolated one-off" as much as you like,
> but it doesn't stop the fact that you have formulated an ill informed
> opinion and then shouted it from the rooftops.
Hardly shouted it, just agreed with Goatboy about hating seeing adults reading Potter. If you like Potter, fair enough. It's not for me. I grew out of reading kids books quite a few years ago.
Rosalind wrote:
> Mallory Towers,
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OK, this is embarrassing, but I've read them, I got bored on holiday when it rained non-stop for a week and read my sisters copies.
I am right that Mallory Towers are the ones with Darryl Rivers and her little posse of "nice, well spoken girls"? They love school and basically play lacrosse all day or swim?
> Mallory Towers,
--
OK, this is embarrassing, but I've read them, I got bored on holiday when it rained non-stop for a week and read my sisters copies.
I am right that Mallory Towers are the ones with Darryl Rivers and her little posse of "nice, well spoken girls"? They love school and basically play lacrosse all day or swim?
Blank wrote:
> Well if we go by IQ tests, I think I'm a genius by the BBC's one. And
> I'll read Harry Potter.
--
Excellent, this can prove my point. I'm a straight A student and I read Harry Potter.
Although Oxford did reject me, maybe they found out I knew who taught Transfiguration at Hogwarts...
> Well if we go by IQ tests, I think I'm a genius by the BBC's one. And
> I'll read Harry Potter.
--
Excellent, this can prove my point. I'm a straight A student and I read Harry Potter.
Although Oxford did reject me, maybe they found out I knew who taught Transfiguration at Hogwarts...
Actually, The Harry Potter books do really remind me of Enid Blytons School books, you know the Twins at St. Claires and Mallory Towers, which may seem an odd thing to say, but is one of the reasons that I read the HP books, It sort of comforts me in a regressing to my childhood days.
Rosalind wrote:
> You know I'm not stupid, which kind of blows your theory out of the
> water.
> Are you sending me my book back any time soon?
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I'll post it this week. Cheers, I ended up buying the 2nd and 3rd.
Excellent once it gets going.
And Harry Potter is not aimed at adults, and you really shouldnt be reading it.
Read The Famous Five instead.
> You know I'm not stupid, which kind of blows your theory out of the
> water.
> Are you sending me my book back any time soon?
--
I'll post it this week. Cheers, I ended up buying the 2nd and 3rd.
Excellent once it gets going.
And Harry Potter is not aimed at adults, and you really shouldnt be reading it.
Read The Famous Five instead.
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