Why only like Dan Brown or J K Rowling, i personally like both author. Try letting down your guard and try enjoying their novels.

Oh man, finally finished reading the book. Pretty decent, though I think it needed more detail about his everyday life and a sense of time passing instead of jumping from one scene to another. (and everything was kind of predictable)

Rowling took a pretty big risk with the ending, but I doubt she'll be able to fit everything that needs to happen in the next book. Plus...what will happen after this...septilogy finally ends?

Hopefully nothing. Probably spawn a spin-off, though, due to its popularity.

When I say 'This person is bad', it tends to mean, to me, that I'm saying: 'In my opinion, this person is bad.'
His style is bad = I don't like his style out of sheer preference.
Of course it's sheer preference. There isn't much that isn't.

Uhh... perhaps you shouldn't. I dunno. I can still write on a public forum that Dan Brown is a bad writer.

One superior author?
J K Rowling is a superior author, and I don't think she's that great.
Other superior authors that come to mind include J R R Tolkien, Philip Pullman, Ian McEwan, George Orwell, Pat Barker, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Louise Welsh....
There are many more authors I consider better than Dan Brown. Is simply a matter of preference of style - probably, yes.

Oooooh, I could say the same thing. But I won't.

Brown, to me, is crippled by his shitty word choices and historical inaccuracies, not to mention the colossal cop-out that was the ending to The Da Vinci Code. He's also far overrated, with his books being mega sellers and highly acclaimed even by better writers in the same genre. I also predict that the planned movies with Tom Hanks will be train wrecks, but that won't stop people from taking up the movie room watching the stupid bullshit and making me feel small for not spending 10 dollars and 2 hours of my life seeing it in theaters.

Man, I'm only on like chapter four! Lol


^^ :rant: :rant: Blah blah blah blah blah blah, yap yap yap yap. God, some of you are so damn whiny! And for future reference, I would highly recomend Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. It's a lot more serious than its title makes it sound. And it's definatley not a children's book. Lol

If you read Harry Potter than you should read Foundations Of Magic: Techniques & Spells That Work I thought it was good but of course its fake

Apparently the last chapter of book 7 Rowling said would be an Epilogue to tell you what happens to the survivors an Epilogue of sorts. The only spin-off she said she'd consider would be like a book with biographies of the main characters- not so important characters as well. I doubt she'll do a Lucas because enough of the backstory is explained already in scenes such as the pensieve ones, etc.

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What Snape Got DADA instead of potions!!!!!

Yep I'm only that far....

I'm going to go kill J.K. now! They just got away from snape and look what happens!

You listed serveral authors that I really despise, so I guess we're just polar opposites in terms of our taste in literature.

Different poles on a magnet. I kind of like Madeline Lengall's books.

Everyone to their own I suppose, I got bored after the 4th book. I know what happens in the new one anyway :p

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*laughs* Sorry, that just struck me as strangely funny; sounds like you mean they should have strung the dead actor up like a mannequin and had him continue "acting", while he decomposed and bits fell off etc... ;) How DARE he die halfway through! I mean, how UNFAIR can a person be?! (I know what you meant, BTW, the mental image just amused me. ;) )

For the record, I have never read any Harry Potter, and don't really intend to, and the over-commercialisation of it irritates me, but if it gets kids to read then it's got to be a good thing, I suppose, so... yeah. Whee.

I swear if someone does the "harry pothead" thing again I'll go caveman on them. Worst pisstake ever.

By far......

Damn Those Movies Suck Big Time
 

Yea I'm angry about Peeves too. I thought he would have a role in the movies .

I, too, am a Christian. That is where out similarities end. I hate books with a passion. In fact, I take all my family's books down to a shooting range, nail them to the targets, and shoot away. I love to see them explode into papery fluffs.

So far, the most satisfying explosions have come from Moby Dick by Charles Dickens, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkein, Ulysses by James Joyce, Animal Farm by George Orwell, and Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. Oh, how I laughed when I saw the pages tear. Hahahahahahahahaha!






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My stance on the Harry Potter movies: OK. They were merely alright movies. Nothing like the books, but I was super excited when I went to see the first one, and I didn't get dissapointed, so something must have been done right.

Animal Farm r0x0rz. How could yinz do soemthing like that? Booooo!

My maoin disagreement with the movies is how they've left out the best things in them. In the first one, it was the Night Duel, the second one was the full exploration of that evil shop. The third I don't have any real problems with except the choice of actors. Oh, and Chris Columbus's goody two shoes nicety nice version of the first two. Bleah!

I was disappointed to say the least when I saw that Mark Williams, a respected oldskool British comedian, had taken up a role in an HP film. Especially considering he plays Ron's Dad.

Ron is sexy and all this, but he's so annoying.

The thing that makes Christian fanatics so dumb in the matter of HP is *deep breath*

It was proved hundreds of years ago now that witchcraft DOESN'T exist. Yeah sure, in the bible, witchcraft is a no-no. So what if Harry Potter is a story about something that is supposedly related to Satan. The proof is that Witchcraft a) does NOT exist in the first place and b) would not contain any links to satanism. JK Rowling is not a satanist and the HP books contain no links to satan. They're just freaking stories about witches and izards, which ARE NOT REAL.

Man I get so pissed off when people are idiots.

Another thing I hate about Christians is that they think the whole world should follow their religion and all other religions don't matter. Truth be told, if people wanna worship Satan, they can, as long as they don't do anything illegal like sacrifice a sheep. And imagine a Satanist's feelings when a film like the Passion of the Christ comes out. Yes, I'm sure the Christians REALLY cared about their feelings, yet when the Satanists finally get a film that, according to the most flawed work of fiction in existance (the bible) is linked to the Devil, all the Christians make a fuss because their religion is insulted.

Don't think I have anything against Christians. After all, if I follow any religion at all, I'm closest to Christianity, but I hate when people think their way is the right way and everyone who doesn;t follow them is evil.

Anyway, back on topic. I personally enjoyed the first 4 books more. My fave would be the 3rd one. That's where things got interesting. 4 was longer and had more in but it kinda screwed with too much. I liked the books because they operated across a school year, and the kids would have to solve some kind of mystery inbetween classes. As the books go further on, it gets too different. And I don't like the new one. It hurts me to say it, because up until book 6 came out I loved the books, but the 6th one SUCKED ARSE. They used character deaths as an advertisment. "In book 5, a character will die!" That seemed to work so in book 6, another dies. Big shock there then? I feel like she's doing it to drum up interest, but it spoils it for me because when I read through the book all I'm looking out for is who dies. And in book 6 I worked out who would die almost halfway through the book. I found it so predictable, and when I think ahead to book 7, I just know it will be awful.

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Book 5 is my favorite right now. As far as I read through book 6 i'm not liking it very much the romance thing just doesn't feel right. But that can be blamed on the rabid Harry Potter fans who bugged JK into doing it. (No I have not finnished the 6th book yet)

I kind of agree with your overall idea, but this paragraph is incredibly flawed. First of all, Satanism is a religion based on the worship and progression of evil, and such a thing, no matter what "equal rights" say, sholud not be considered as a faction that deserves fair treatment.

Satan is the image of evil no matter what religion you follow, so showing Satan as the bad guy in Passion of the Christ is a totally adequate representation of the guy. And furthermore, followers of Satanism know that Satan is evil, and so the portrayal of him as such would not offend any of his worshippers.

"And Imagine the Satanists feelings..." - that just made me laugh. I can imagine a Satanist screaming, "SATAN IS EVIL, SATAN IS GOD, but I mean really, did you have to make him look so bad in the Passion? Just come on. Think of Satanists for once."

And really, the Bible is an awesome book with some killer stories. It's not a flawed work of fiction. The only time when it becomes flawed is when people take it literally and try to force their inaccurate interpretations down other people's throats.

So yeah. That's what I have to say on that matter.

And for some desperate hope of staying on-topic, I like the 4th book best, movies are all right, blah blah blah.

I agree with Kimon on this one (cept the book shooting). I may bot follow the Christian religion, but I like to explor and research religions wbecuase i think many of them are interesting, like how a lot of them have something to do with the desert.

One of my favorite texts about Christianity is Dante's: The Divine Comedy. It was to complex for me to read it (It took me like an hour just to understand one page) so II read about it online. I would definatley recopmend it to anyopne who is interested in Christain Mythology. Dore's illustrations for it are alos very good.

Religion causes more problems than it solves. But it is very interesting.

As for Potter, I don't really care. There are better things and there are worse things. I've read the books and seen the films, I don't think they're as bad as some people say they are.

The collection of shit that comes with it is horrible though, it makes it annoying sometimes for me. Clothes, toys, lego, idiots, ect...

I LOVE HARRY POTTER AND SATAN IS MY PLAYTHING! HARRY POTTER MAKES ME PRO-ABORTION!

Really, extreme Christians, get an open mind. This is just a bit of fun fer the children. Think of the sterving children.

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