Harry Potter

ENOUGH already with all this Harry Potter crap! What sort of LOSERS think this stuff is cool???

I mean, there is site after site on the web wanting to know about the next book or the next movie, cannot all be created by kids. GET A LIFE PEOPLE!!!

What do you Toytown people think?

I'm with you 100%. HP is for kids. Simple as that.

I think you've read Arshoo's thread.

I was about to say the same thing UA.

it's entertaining and a very easy read.
plus if you actually read it and look at some of the stuff the history is interesting (names of the made up spells and other stuff taken from history and language)

I'll give HP the test of time. If people are still talking about it when I'm 60, I'll buy them for my grandkids.

Which book has the troll in it?

So's 'Roger Red Hat Buys a New Hat From a Shop', which was written by Dan Brown apparently.

HP = utter tosh

but we've already done this thread at least twice in the past, i think

it is all bs, how old are you?

What history?

Names of made up spell??? Are you still in kindergarden???

Topsy says it's utter tosh, but has read 4 out of the 6...

and I agree, this has been done before.

Most movies are rubbish. Nothing wrong with watching it though.

Why do people read the Bible?

ENOUGH already with all this God and Jesus crap! What sort of LOSERS think this stuff is cool???

I mean, there is site after site on the web. GET A LIFE PEOPLE!!!

i like the theory that he is gay:

Here is an excerpt

"Harry Potter is gay. The discovery was made when the US cultural critic Michael Bronski explained in the Boston Phoenix, “So much of the basic Potter plot is identical to the traditional coming-out story: Harry's differentness makes him an outcast in his own family. He is physically, emotionally, and mentally mistreated by the Dursleys [his aunt and uncle]. Their cruelty is calculated and dangerous – he is, in essence, repeatedly queer-bashed by them. And as in so many coming-out stories, Harry is confused by his secret desires.�

The novels are about a secret world. The wizards and witches know they are different, and that they must hide their difference from the grey (straight) world. The similarities between, say, Parcel-tongue (which enables Harry to speak to snakes) and gaydar are striking. The secret world of magic is just as clearly parallel with the old gay world of secret clubs and public toilets – which, alas, most of the world’s gay men still inhabit. Bronski argues that this is becoming more and more blatant as the novels progress: “In the newly released Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Rowling seems to play more openly with a gay reading of the books. During an argument with Harry, the obnoxious Dudley mentions that his cousin spoke in his sleep about someone named Cedric, lashing out, "Who's Cedric – your boyfriend?" And in the ensuing argument, Dudley seems to have a homosexual panic attack when Harry takes out his wand: "Don't point that thing at me," he says repeatedly.�

He even believes that Harry’s wand is – not to put too fine a point on it – becoming more and more like a cock as he gets older and more sexualised. His wand used to produce only “vapour and smoke� but by the most recent novel it is producing solid substances - a Patronus stag, in fact. A house owl scolds Harry by warning him to put his wand back in his pants. JK Rowling has, according to the Daily Mirror, denied that Harry is batting for the other Quidditch team, and said she finds this reading of her novels “astonishing�. Oh, come, come, JK. Look at your enemies, and realise who your friends are."

full link:
http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=299

Your overuse of question marks is extremely irritating. What's it to you if mere likes Harry Potter?

he is as camp as a row of tents, if he was any kind of man he would have been up one of those little witches by now!

Adults who like harry potter are extremely irritating.

Same sort of people who like that dungeons and dragons horse shit.

Maybe they lose themselves in these things because they cannot cope with the real world?

The first book:"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"

so he trolls and plays with stones?

Definitely camp!

the Philosopher's Stone

The books have got kids willing to read again. Face it, HP IV is about as long as "War and Peace". Who in your acquaintance has read that by the age 12?

I aggree it has got kids to read again, but what kid ever was witing up until after midnight for a famous five book

Rolls D20, scores 18 irritation. Rolls percentiles, scores 17% on coping with reality.
Vows to return when he is a 10th lvl poster.

Yes, filling their little heads so full with nonsense, how can they be expected to get a basic education. They may know what fucking quidditch is, but cannot divide 18 by 3!

I've read 5 of the 6. I rather like them. That said, I kind of gave up after the fifth, as I wanted to stamp on the little angsty shits glasses by the end of book 5.

10th lvl? Ed Bob's tight with the old XPs - so he'll be waiting for a while.

Whats wrong with reading books that are nonsense? Where is there a rule stating life has to be boring and we can't read a little crap every now and then?

I like HP. I was given the first book as a gift and i read it. great read.

maybe the disadvantage is that HP was written in time when marketing, sales strategy and movie rights etc pay a fortune.
also i would argue that book 4-6 are not children's books becuase i wouldn't want a six year old to read them.

Why does that post not surprise me 'CABBAGEFAIRY'

There is no rule. Just like there's no rule to stop the rest of us thinking HP readers are muppets.

well, then, that puts me in a good position to form an opinion, n'est-ce pas?

Never wanted to read the books. I'm against all hype books, that's why I didn't read the Da Vinci Code.

Turns out, I saved myself a lot of time, because I did have watch the movies of both (HP, DVC), just to see what all the fuss was about, and they were equally shit.

What was the last book you read?

The last book I read was 'The Battle' by Alessandro Barbero.

The book is better than the movie, but its still shit. The American saves the day, and shags the fit French bird and the English bloke turns out to be the bad guy. Fuck that shit.

I thought the English hated the French. Was the Englishman supposed to get the Frenchie?

Added to wish list.

Topsy, good point.
IW, he's less annoying in book 6. I swear.

Yes, I enjoy the books. No big deal. I've also reread the Narnia series several times as an adult, along with "Where the Wild Things Are". I would reread all the books from my childhood if I had them here. Harry Potter is just another entertaining read. No worse than any Dan Brown or Patricia Cornwell.

@IW - It's actually quite shit. I'm half way through 'The Third Reich - A New History' by Michael Burleigh. Much better.

Removed from wishlist. I have done WWII history to death, I am in a more social history/classical history period at the moment. Thanks for the heads up though.

@IW Fiction or non-fiction?

Dan Browns books are still better than Harry Potter though. And slightly more real. And what's wrong with cabbagefairy? Haha my name happens to mean princess of the graceful cabbage farmers. Ah gotta just love nonsense

"Real" is not a standard when talking about fiction books.

@IW - Well, if you're avoiding WWII 'The Battle' isn't altogether bad (the battle in this case being Waterloo), but it can become a little too frenetic to follow properly at times, plus I just couldn't identify with the major French personalities, whereas I can with the Germans/Brits in any WWII jobbie. The new history of the 3rd Reich is good though, but heavy going at times.

I too have had enough of WWII though, but as yet have not felt the need to turn to HP.

Oh, and if anyone wants to buy me anything...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/registry/wishli...6375502-6682863

dan brown's book are boring and predictable. his books are a waste of time. i have read all of them and i think they are utterly useless.

there is good and bad nonsense and dan is BAD.

only ever so slightly real than Harry potter!

And yet your've read them all :S

I dunno, I reckon there is more chance of witches and wizards n shit than there being a bloodline from Jesus being protected by a secret society

having read them, i know what i am talking about. if i hadn't read them, my critics would be unfounded.