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That might be a stretch, true, but what is really sad is people who derive pleasure from deriding other people about their joys.
No, not sad... pathetic.
No, not sad... pathetic.
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Given the decline of adult literacy status, that is certainly very probable.Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Who knows, in 50 to 100 years, you snobs might have to eat your words as Rowling ascends the pantheon of novelists
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(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."Comment
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what's so wrong with harry potter? it's innocent entertainment, and it's not for everyone.B♭3Comment
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what is really sad is people who derive pleasure from deriding other people about their joys.
No, not sad... pathetic.
And this is why 'elitist' and 'snob' have negative connotations .
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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Who is deriving said pleasure?Originally posted by JohnT
That might be a stretch, true, but what is really sad is people who derive pleasure from deriding other people about their joys.
No, not sad... pathetic.
(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."Comment
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Have you not read this thread? Or even the OP?Comment
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Gandalf is a Maiar servant of the secret fire, and has access to knowledge and powers from before the creation of the world.
Dumbledore is an aging hippy burn-out with a SERIOUS God-the-Father complex."Wait a minute..this isn''t FAUX dive, it's just a DIVE!"
"...Mangy dog staggering about, looking vainly for a place to die."
"sauna stories? There are no 'sauna stories'.. I mean.. sauna is sauna. You do by the laws of sauna." -P.Comment
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Maiar's Bakery makes great sticky buns.No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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I dont know enough about harry potter to hate. All I know is that he's pretty popular even among adults.:-pComment
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"I agree that it is a sad commentary of the society that adults read these books."
I've read Conrad's Youth, Hemingway's Old Man of the Sea, Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, etc, etc. Are you telling me that because I enjoyed said books I should not enjoy Harry Potter???
"No such parallel exists in any of the Potter books."
Glad to know you've read them. Tell me, do you agree with me that Ravenclaw is an overlooked aspect of the series???
Fück y'all. harry potter is the best.
And don't blame this on being macheads. I'm a huge mac zealot, AND a huge harry potter fan... arguably the biggest on this board. I only wish I had been here sooner to deny this ignoramus' remarks.Last edited by monolith94; June 21, 2003, 11:20."mono has crazy flow and can rhyme words that shouldn't, like Eminem"
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Sure did. It seems nobody got off by dissing Harry Potter. YMMV.Originally posted by JohnT
Have you not read this thread? Or even the OP?(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."Comment
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Oh, that's not what I said. Even as entertainment goes, there are other more meaningful, thought provoking choices available.Originally posted by monolith94
"I agree that it is a sad commentary of the society that adults read these books."
I've read Conrad's Youth, Hemingway's Old Man of the Sea, Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, etc, etc. Are you telling me that because I enjoyed said books I should not enjoy Harry Potter???
I don't see how you can draw a parallel of that to Twain's commentary on the society as a whole in Huck Finn Perhaps you could enlighten me?Originally posted by monolith94
"No such parallel exists in any of the Potter books."
Glad to know you've read them. Tell me, do you agree with me that Ravenclaw is an overlooked aspect of the series???
You're looking for a banning, eh?Originally posted by monolith94
Fück y'all. harry potter is to blame.
(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."Comment
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Who knows, in 50 to 100 years, you snobs might have to eat your words as Rowling ascends the pantheon of novelists
This is going to be a very very long climb.
Oh wait, I don't read books.Comment
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I've read the first four Harry Potter books, and they don't have too much going for them. They're not especially interesting and they're not even particularly well written.
I'm not going to read the rest.Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.Comment
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Harry Potter is so boring that you could only read the first four books?No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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