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[omg]

actually i think you are right, no one in there right minds is gonna type for that long, let alone read all dat stuff, an i cannot, jus cannot imagine a crowley fanatic liking harry potter, it just seems wrong somehow.

[Havell]

Harry Potter is actually quite good *hides from lynch mob*. I started reading Harry Potter before it became famous (and literally NOBODY in my school had heard of him) I just carried on reading it as it became famous.

[Chris]

I also like the Harry Potter books. The fifth chapter was a bit dull, though. My favourites clearly are parts 3 and 4.

When The Order of the Phoenix was released on Halloween last year, we had a special action here in Germany. You could pre-order the book and it was guaranteed that you receive it on the Halloween's eve. Just at 10 o clock, I had a very angry postman ringing my bell and shouting "Here, your Potter!". I asked him, what was the problem, and he showed me the trunk of his car. It was stuffed with packages reading Amazon.de and they all had the same size... quite funny.

[Tulac]

I myself don't like Harry Potter, I liked it a few years ago but then I read LOTR, and started reading other fantasy books, and somehow Harry Potter got boring...

[omg]

Originally posted by R Havell@Apr 23 2005, 05:16 PM
Harry Potter is actually quite good *hides from lynch mob*.

*lynch mob brings sniffer dogs*

[chickenman]

I love harry potter and lord of the rings :w00t:

[omg]

u must be well chuffed that you are now a HOBBIT!

[Stroggy]

I tried Harry Potter once, didn't like it. I always got the feeling she was simply stealing ideas from other authors. LOTR is so-so. Sometimes its like two different people with two different styles are writing it and the transition from one style to the other is often annoying (this is very notable in the second book after the fall of Isengard)
Tolkien is also a terrible poet in my opinion.

[A. J. Raffles]

Originally posted by Stroggy@Apr 23 2005, 07:42 PM
Tolkien is also a terrible poet in my opinion.

Well, that's what teaching Old English poetry does to you, I suppose. There is some great OE poetry, but some of it is pretty lousy.

[Stroggy]

Excuse me but I do learn old english poetry in school (in fact tolkien's works aren't old enough to be considered old english)
His poetry is dry and flavourless. Poetry is about emotions or anti-emotions (which is eventually the same) , Tolkien writes poetry in order to put someone else's emotions into words, a fictional character's emotions... and this doesn't work (at least not for him)