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  • #76
    Originally posted by Urban Ranger


    Sure did. It seems nobody got off by dissing Harry Potter. YMMV.


    Main Entry: 1tone
    Pronunciation: 'tOn
    Function: noun
    Etymology: Middle English, from Latin tonus tension, tone, from Greek tonos, literally, act of stretching; akin to Greek teinein to stretch -- more at THIN
    Date: 14th century

    ...

    6 : style or manner of expression in speaking or writing "seemed wise to adopt a conciliatory tone"

    You don't see the joy that Agathon gets from being "superior" in his reading material?

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    • #77
      Just a load of populist neo-bourgeous crap.

      I boycott all harry potter books/films/toys etc

      Join la resistance!
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      • #78
        Originally posted by The Mad Monk
        Harry Potter is so boring that you could only read the first four books?
        That's nothing. I got to book 8 of Robert Jordan's turgid Wheel of Time series. I knew the first book wasn't nearly as good as the fanboys had told me, but I kept reading because they said "It gets so much better!" Not only did it not get better, it got so very, very much worse. I now consign those books to the gutter of fantasy writing and name Jordan the biggest literary fraud of the genre.
        Tutto nel mondo è burla

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        • #79
          I don't mind the book, hey if you're having fun with it .

          I DO mind the hype surrounding it , I don't need to see an interview/book-store riot every ffing day on the news.
          Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
          Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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          • #80
            Robert Jordan's not THAT bad.

            "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?"

            Could Rowling's subtle lack of commentary on Ravenclaw be a subtle commentary on the stealth mode the intellectual class seems to be suffering right now? I think so.
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            • #81
              Yeah, but what's so special about HP?

              I mean, Agathon hates anything and everything anyway.

              I reckon Agathon's just jealous of anyone successful.
              Some cry `Allah O Akbar` in the street. And some carry Allah in their heart.
              "The CIA does nothing, says nothing, allows nothing, unless its own interests are served. They are the biggest assembly of liars and theives this country ever put under one roof and they are an abomination" Deputy COS (Intel) US Army 1981-84

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              • #82
                Originally posted by The Mad Monk
                Harry Potter is so boring that you could only read the first four books?
                Man, I heard this one's almost 900 pages, too . I like to read some hefty tomes, but more of crap is still crap.

                I don't get it.....
                "Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movements and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us." --MLK Jr.

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                • #83
                  Originally posted by monolith94
                  Robert Jordan's not THAT bad.
                  Yes, he IS. The first book of the series was mediocre. Not bad, but lord it wasn't that good. His characters are so one-dimensional and stiff it's appalling. The fact that I can easily predict what each character will do any every (hackneyed) situation he throws them in is telling (invariably, they will do such stupid, senseless things that Jordan has to invoke deus ex machinas to extract them). They are cardboard.

                  The story wasn't even original, as anyone who has read Tolkien could tell you. While most fantasy is derivative of Tolkien, Jordan actually ripped of the plot.

                  The subsequent books got worse and worse as it became clear he was just making up the story as his porcine little fingers typed. I could take all the events that have happened in the 5000+ pages of books 2 through 8 and condense them into a novella. He spends ages going NOWHERE, his characters doing NOTHING except mentally masturbating in a pretense at profundity that is so obviously shallow that Danielle Steele would find it banal.
                  Last edited by Boris Godunov; June 21, 2003, 14:07.
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                  • #84
                    I'm of the opinion that Jordan doesn't exist, that "he" is really some bizarre book-writing committee where everybody is assigned a section and given a month to flesh out a basic plot outline. How else can he keep pumping out 900 pages of crap so fast?

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                    • #85
                      I am inclined to agree.

                      Actually, I think he's just a fatass who sits at his computer and makes up stuff as he goes because he really has nothing important to say. The fact that nothing happens for massive stretches at a time supports this, since one doesn't have to plan out 100s of pages of nothingness.
                      Tutto nel mondo è burla

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                      • #86
                        Originally posted by Cruddy
                        Yeah, but what's so special about HP?
                        He's a **** sucking piece of **** with no ******* ****.

                        I mean, Agathon hates anything and everything anyway.
                        At last someone gets it. Give me a T...

                        I reckon Agathon's just jealous of anyone successful.
                        No, I just nurture an intense dislike of the whole Harry Potter phenom. It has nothing to do with elitism either. I'd still hate him even if I only read comics.

                        If you like Harry, then that's your problem. But what's wrong with me calling it as I see it. Nobody is preventing you from disagreeing.
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                        • #87
                          Thanks for the sig material Boris.
                          Only feebs vote.

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                          • #88
                            Welcome, but spell my goddamned name right!
                            Tutto nel mondo è burla

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                            • #89
                              Originally posted by Agathon


                              I could write better. But then again the vast majority of people wouldn't know real literature if it bit them in the ass.

                              And it's all capitalism's fault.
                              You are blaming capitalism for the fact that your writing is unfit for publication and sends most people to sleep?

                              If you think you can write that good... those that can, do.
                              Some cry `Allah O Akbar` in the street. And some carry Allah in their heart.
                              "The CIA does nothing, says nothing, allows nothing, unless its own interests are served. They are the biggest assembly of liars and theives this country ever put under one roof and they are an abomination" Deputy COS (Intel) US Army 1981-84

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                              • #90
                                Originally posted by Boris Godunov
                                Welcome, but spell my goddamned name right!
                                Doh.
                                Only feebs vote.

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