Originally posted by petrosianpupilPerhaps you should read my post again. I didn't criticize the author. In fact, I said,
What is also always the same, is that people always try to criticise real talent in the hope of seeming superior.
"I will grant you that the retelling of this story is well done but its SUCESSS speaks more to society's lack of historical reference than it does to anything specific to the author."
In other words, for those of us without a compass to find the point, JK tells a good story but the financial success of the books is due mostly to the fact that it is new. If you don't see these books as a retelling of old stories then we should part ways.
LOTR, Narnia, etc. If you haven't read these, then ya ok, Harry Potter will hold your interest. But how many stories involving wizards and evil spirits can you read before you get bored?
Originally posted by GoatboysrevengeYes, those are good examples too.
All Harry Potter is plagiarised Roald Dahl & Jill Murphy (The Worst Witch Series of books) with a variation of the Eton Wall game thrown in for a bit of sport...If I ever have kids they're gonna read Roald Dahl.
Thats my two pence, but its all down to personal opinion really...
I guess one's opinion is framed by which books one reads first.
Originally posted by schakuhrThankfully, we have posts like yours to make the forum a better place....
After spending a few minutes here I can easily say that all are lacking of any wit or intelligence whatsoever. You all believe yourselves to be better than everyone else, and I can tell you right now, that that is not the case in the slightest, you pseudo-intellectuals. I am much better than all of you. Clearly I am because I am neither pretentious, long-wi ...[text shortened]... icated, linear, and they're rather contradictory. Why, there's never even any variety here!
Anyway, I think HP are excellent books with interesting and complex characters. I liked the 7th one best...well, except for maybe the crappylogue...it sounded like an ending to a bad fanfiction or something.
I can't wait for the 8th book that will come out a few years after the 7th movie is made. All the fans debating whether or not she sold out after saying it was her last book, all the talk about her doing it for the money and some fans just happy she wrote another book.
I wonder what will happen next!