I mena, it's one of those books I have because I got it for free and stuff, but every once and a while I pick it up and browse through it because it's so awesomely magnificent at how bad the book is.
Bleah!
Ubi caritas est vera, Deus ibi est.
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." ~ Richard Bach
Eoin Colfer i tried i seriously tried reading it but it was so cliche evil boy genuis now come on and what more a movie *vomits*
We get off to the rhythm of the trigger and destruction. Fallujah to New Orleans with impunity to kill. We are the hidden fist of the free market.
We are the ink, we are the quill.
[The Ink And The Quill (Be Afraid) - Anti-Flag]
I hate the guy who wrote Eragon, I also hate HP so that includes JK Rowling and every teenage fiction writer. For classic authors I really really hate Austen and C. Bronte.
I don't... neceassarily hate JK Rowling, I just hate the big deal that everyone makes over her. I mean, if you're going to read a book about magic, make it Tolkein.
People who hate Jo Rowling are going through a fad of authors who think they are better than her and that she is much too common to like. Yes we all went through it, I did too and many forums Harry Potter is taboo. However at the end of the day who is a multimillionaire and the richest author of an era? Jo Rowling.
I am a huge HUGE harry potter fan. I RP harry potter and read the books none stop. The plot and worldbuilding is absolutley facinating, there is no long boring description and the characters are really REALLY stupendously written. So far Ive seen no real reason why people dislike the books other than because they are successful.
I dare anyone to read Philosophers stone FIRst and not want to read the rest of the series.
No, see, I don't dislike them because they're successful, I just generally don't like that everyone has to keep shoving it in your face. If one likes an author that's fine, what I don't like it when everyone assumes that the entire teenage population loves them.
I was talking to this elderly woman the other day and I could not get it through to her that I did not read the last book. Everyone takes one look at me and goes: "Ahh! She's under twenty! She MUST love Harry Potter!"
That is what I can't stand. The precieved lack of induviduality. We're not all little cookie-cutter readers -- we have different interests. So why do so many [older] people have to keep belaboring their point?
*raises hand* I have. I understand what Dream Deep is saying, and I agree with it. It doesn't stop me from liking them... although I didn't like the last one.
You see things; and you say, "Why?" but I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
The book "Outlander" completely sucks! And for three reasons:
1. Much too wordy
2. Long and boring
3. Every scene either consisted of sex, killing people with dirks, or some random tangent about the symbolic significance of golden plovers.
Anyway...
Harry Potter's cool and all, but it doesn't have much depth. That's okay. But when people say it's the best book ever, I feel sorry for them; they've missed a great many books in their time...
That is my rambling message of today. Thank you.
~Shafter
I've read harry potter, but I don't like it. I did like it. But I've grown out of YA like I said before somewhere (Then someone said that HP isn't YA because adults read it too...so?)
I think it goes along with my hate for Best selling authors (Though I do, at times, read Dean Koontz...)
Recently I've wanted to read things for literary purposes, not only enjoyment. I want classic things, old things, stuff like that. I love them! But Best sellers (I consider HP to be one) Make me sick because they loose (most of them) all literary purpose. They only get published because they can make money (Which is why JK is a millionaire) but you would never see HP on a required reading list for a college or something; its only entertain.
I think I've argued over this before, people say, but isn't all reading entertainment? yes, true... But I'd much rather read something literary value, than something that sells x amount of copies the day its published.
“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Er... yeah. Someone mentioned Tokien? Yeah... I don't like his works. It's like, "STOP DESCRIBING EVERY USELESS THING."
I don't like "A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." By Mark Twain, yes, but OMG. SO BORING. *flails*
Ubi caritas est vera, Deus ibi est.
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." ~ Richard Bach
Actually... I have to admit, I have books that I used to love but now I just can't force myself to read them... or when I do, I end up critiquing it in my head. Definitely a weird feeling.
I do read Rowling's books, but I don't like how there's so much fuss made about her. It's like, loved the books when I read them, but to have the movies, the stationary, etc. etc. Got a bit annoying...
Tolkein... well, I read his book when I was about twelve or thirteen, I think. Picked it up recently, either that or the Hobbit, and I didn't carry on reading. So... yeah, not my favourite.
Philip Pullman as well, I was reading The Ruby in the Smoke recently and found so much wrong with the first chapter! Maybe it's just that my preferences have changed, but I just don't find it so good anymore.
