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Harry Potter

Postby Vichy-Corsica » Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:48 am

What do people think of Harry Potter. Personally I think its a good read but its plot is quite weak in some areas. Also I think Pottermania has gone on for way too long. So what do NSG think.
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Re: Harry Potter

Postby Louis Van Boxel Woolf » Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:54 am

Daniel Radcliffe (he plays Harry Potter) use to go to my school!
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Re: Harry Potter

Postby Carbandia » Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:55 am

Shouldn't this be in the fiction section?
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Re: Harry Potter

Postby North Suran » Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:56 am

I thought this was going to be one of those "Harry Potter encourages demon worship! Salt it and burn it!" threads.

J.K. Rowling's daughter actually goes to the same school as me.

However, I'm not a massive fan of Harry Potter books; they're not bad, but not groundbreaking either.

Furthermore, I feel they are more aimed towards younger children and pre-adolescents.
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Re: Harry Potter

Postby Buffett and Colbert » Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:57 am

I quite like the books. As North Suran said, they aren't ground breaking pieces of literature, but I enjoyed being a twittering Twilight fangirl for these books. I can actually read these over many times.
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Postby Buffett and Colbert » Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:57 am

Carbandia wrote:Shouldn't this be in the fiction section?


Agreed.
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Re: Harry Potter

Postby Wanderjar » Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:58 am

When I was in elementary school I loved Harry Potter...that was of course RIGHT when it came out back in the mid/latter 90s. Not a fan now.

EDIT: I see the movies out of nostalgia though!
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Re: Harry Potter

Postby Greed and Death » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:00 am

Not literature, but decent pop fiction.
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Re: Harry Potter

Postby Maurepas » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:01 am

I thought the Potter series was great...they were one of the first book series I read as kid, so theyre kind of special to me, :)

I hate the last three movies though, I wish theyd just stick closer to the source material...It worked for Watchmen and the Dark Knight afterall...
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Re: Harry Potter

Postby North Suran » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:05 am

Maurepas wrote:I hate the last three movies though, I wish theyd just stick closer to the source material...It worked for Watchmen and the Dark Knight afterall...

Worked is a strong word.

Also, The Dark Knight isn't particularly close to its source material; a few of the things the Joker does are from the original comic series, but everything else is pretty new.
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Re: Harry Potter

Postby DrunkenDove » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:07 am

Anything that gets kids reading can't be all bad.
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Re: Harry Potter

Postby Maurepas » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:10 am

North Suran wrote:
Maurepas wrote:I hate the last three movies though, I wish theyd just stick closer to the source material...It worked for Watchmen and the Dark Knight afterall...

Worked is a strong word.

Also, The Dark Knight isn't particularly close to its source material; a few of the things the Joker does are from the original comic series, but everything else is pretty new.

But, if you notice, Watchmen's user score is higher, ;) , as they are the ones buying tickets, Id say it counts more, :p

The point is, I want to see a live action version of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince....not Writer so and so's version of what he thinks the Half Blood Prince should be about...
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Postby Buffett and Colbert » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:11 am

DrunkenDove wrote:Anything that gets kids reading can't be all bad.


*cough* Twilight *cough* *cough*
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Buffett and Colbert wrote:Clever, but your Jedi mind tricks don't work on me.

His Jedi mind tricks are insignificant compared to the power of Buffy's sex appeal.
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Re: Harry Potter

Postby Maurepas » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:12 am

Buffett and Colbert wrote:
DrunkenDove wrote:Anything that gets kids reading can't be all bad.


*cough* Twilight *cough* *cough*

*vomits*...

Ill remember that next time I complain about Harry Potter fandom, :?
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Re: Harry Potter

Postby South Wienda » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:16 am

Harry Potter bores me to tears.
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Re: Harry Potter

Postby North Suran » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:17 am

Now, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World:

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That's an awesome book.
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Re: Harry Potter

Postby DrunkenDove » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:26 am

Buffett and Colbert wrote:
DrunkenDove wrote:Anything that gets kids reading can't be all bad.


*cough* Twilight *cough* *cough*


You just wait. Today it's sparkly vampires, tomorrow it's the thirteen hundred pages of that timeless pseudo-philosophy classic, Atlas Shrugged. In no time flat America will back on it's feet, everyone enjoying unlimited prosperity and wealth. Except for the lazy poor of course, who are to shiftless to stop going out and sucking blood and playing vampire baseball and get real jobs like the only the finest mary-sues can. No, wait, I might be getting the two books confused....
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Re: Harry Potter

Postby Wilgrove » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:27 am

I like Harry Potter's for Adult version, The Dresden Files.

What keeps me up at night is that I know there's a fanfic of both Harry's together...in a horrible horrible, vomit inducing situation.
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Re: Harry Potter

Postby Greed and Death » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:29 am

Maurepas wrote:
Buffett and Colbert wrote:
DrunkenDove wrote:Anything that gets kids reading can't be all bad.


*cough* Twilight *cough* *cough*

*vomits*...

Ill remember that next time I complain about Harry Potter fandom, :?

The teen girls who fall for twilight.
Just wear black and it is an easy lay.
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Postby Wilgrove » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:30 am

greed and death wrote:The teen girls who fall for twilight.
Just wear black and it is an easy lay.


Eh you'll have to at least sparkle. Which can be achieved with body glitter.
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Postby Conserative Morality » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:31 am

Harry Potter. Crappy books and crappy movies. Shouldn't this be in fiction?
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Re: Harry Potter

Postby Greed and Death » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:32 am

Wilgrove wrote:
greed and death wrote:The teen girls who fall for twilight.
Just wear black and it is an easy lay.


Eh you'll have to at least sparkle. Which can be achieved with body glitter.

So that's why I have glitter on me afterward.
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Postby Gravlen » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:35 am

"Read"?
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Re: Harry Potter

Postby North Suran » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:39 am

Wilgrove wrote:Eh you'll have to at least sparkle. Which can be achieved with body glitter.

Glitter, you say?

SIMPLY FABULOUS.
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Postby Maurepas » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:39 am

greed and death wrote:The teen girls who fall for twilight.
Just wear black and it is an easy lay.

I call them Jailbait, :p

Plus they dont exactly go for big hairy guys which puts me at a bit of a loss, :blush:
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