What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Barliman Butterbur]

You should have put a spoiler warning there, Barley. There might be people here who haven't read it yet

You fonny man! You tell zee joke!

Barley

 

[Arthur_Vandelay]

Have you been living under a rock for the last 8 years then? How'd you manage to avoid them?

Easily: I didn't think they would be my bag. I was wrong, it turns out.

 

[Wolfshead]

Easily: I didn't think they would be my bag. I was wrong, it turns out.

Same as my mum. She refused to read them for years. Now she finally has and really likes them. You stubborn people just lose out

 

[Fugitive1992]

i, for 1, am NOT STUBORN!!! i just haven't read the books

 

[Arthur_Vandelay]

Same as my mum. She refused to read them for years. Now she finally has and really likes them. You stubborn people just lose out

It wasn't a case of being stubborn, necessarily. More a case of aversion to hype.

 

[Wolfshead]

It wasn't a case of being stubborn, necessarily. More a case of aversion to hype.

Well, with the same result. I bet people had told you to read them but you refused to due to an aversion to hype. I'm pretty sure that amounts to stubborness

i, for 1, am NOT STUBORN!!! i just haven't read the books

You should, they're well worth the time.

 

[Arthur_Vandelay]

Well, with the same result. I bet people had told you to read them but you refused to due to an aversion to hype. I'm pretty sure that amounts to stubborness

No, just a lack of interest. (People tell me I should be watching Australian Idol, too .) As a matter of fact, I only know one person who has read the Harry Potter books: the person who is currently lending them to me.

 

[Wolfshead]

No, just a lack of interest. (People tell me I should be watching Australian Idol, too .) As a matter of fact, I only know one person who has read the Harry Potter books: the person who is currently lending them to me.

Oh well, fair enough. Perhaps they're just not as popular in Australia, or with the people you know. You either enjoy them here, or hate them.

As for the Idol series, I just think they're rubbish I apologise for it - I think we invented it, seeing as we had Pop Idol and then everyone else follows on, but with their countrys name in front of it (American Idol et al).

 

[Fugitive1992]

Well, with the same result. I bet people had told you to read them but you refused to due to an aversion to hype. I'm pretty sure that amounts to stubborness


You should, they're well worth the time.

i would but my mother is the stouborn one if you wonna start on that subject

 

[Wolfshead]

i would but my mother is the stouborn one if you wonna start on that subject

Oh no, not more conservative Americans who think HP is evil, is it?

 

[Arthur_Vandelay]

Oh well, fair enough. Perhaps they're just not as popular in Australia, or with the people you know. You either enjoy them here, or hate them.

I'd say they're about as popular over here as they would be in the UK. The publishers have even gone to the trouble of producing two versions: one with a more "subtle" cover for adults who might feel embarrassed about reading what is widely perceived to be children's literature (I'm not saying it is) on the train. (Personally, it doesn't bother me.)

And I agree wholeheartedly with at least one element of the Harry Potter hype: it is a great way to introduce children (and even adults) to a love of reading.

As for the Idol series, I just think they're rubbish I apologise for it - I think we invented it, seeing as we had Pop Idol and then everyone else follows on, but with their countrys name in front of it (American Idol et al).

It's glorified karaoke--without the cheap beer.

 

[Wolfshead]

I'd say they're about as popular over here as they would be in the UK. The publishers have even gone to the trouble of producing two versions: one with a more "subtle" cover for adults who might feel embarrassed about reading what is widely perceived to be children's literature (I'm not saying it is) on the train. (Personally, it doesn't bother me.)

They would be this for the childrens edition of the first one, and this or this for the adult editons? That's what we have here. I don't know about the US. I think they just have the incredibly rubbish Scholastic cartoony covers.

I actually bought the adult cover of the new book because I preferred it to the childrens cover, not through any desire to appear more grown up, or less child-like.

 

[Arthur_Vandelay]

They would be this for the childrens edition of the first one, and this or this for the adult editons? That's what we have here. I don't know about the US. I think they just have the incredibly rubbish Scholastic cartoony covers.

That's correct. Evidently I'm reading the children's editions.

 

[Firawyn]

Oh no, not more conservative Americans who think HP is evil, is it?

That would be correct my friend. Our mother is not into the HP thing. I've read all of them, although Fugitive has not.

I really don't get how mother can aprove of LotR with Gandalf and Saruman and all them, but HP is evil. Oh brother.

 

[Arthur_Vandelay]

That would be correct my friend. Our mother is not into the HP thing. I've read all of them, although Fugitive has not.

I really don't get how mother can aprove of LotR with Gandalf and Saruman and all them, but HP is evil. Oh brother.

We have a thread about this over at PE, but I'm three books into the series now, and I can't for the life of me figure out how anyone could deem the Potter books "evil." And that's after 12 years of Catholic education. Perhaps someone can help me out.

 

[Firawyn]

the only substantial point my mother has made it that the muggles (non-magic beings) are treated like dirt in the Potter books. I often wondered how Rowling can make such a point of Half wizard Half muggles are really good, but she rubs in how bad regular muggles are. A worthy point, but the only one she's convinced me of. This is why I have read the books, despite her distaste.

Okay, so maybe that was a little off topic. Well, this is about books, so maybe not. Gur, just wait till you get to this last book. I swear, I cried. You will not believe who the half-blood prince is. Oh baby.

*runs away crying* Must re-read. Got it for my b-day.

Hey, what book are you on anyway? It's Chamber of Secrets, then Sorcerers Stone, the Prisoner of Azkaban (LOVED THAT ONE), and then whay? Goblet of Fire? I can't remember...

 

[Wolfshead]

Hey, what book are you on anyway? It's Chamber of Secrets, then Sorcerers Stone, the Prisoner of Azkaban (LOVED THAT ONE), and then whay? Goblet of Fire? I can't remember...

It goes as follows

The Philosopher's Stone (or the Sorcerer's Stone in the US, because it was deemed that not enough Americans would know what the Philosopher's Stone is. Which doesn't really say much for America...)
The Chamber of Secrets
The Prisoner of Azkaban
The Goblet of Fire
The Order of the Phoenix
The Half-Blood Prince

We have a thread about this over at PE

Initiated by yours truly People with theological problems with HP really get on my nerves

 

[Hammersmith]

Just picked up a stack from the library. Finished Terry Pratchett's Going Postal, chewing through Fydor Dusty's The Brother Kamarazov and lining up something by Guy Gavriel Kay and The Count of Monte Cristo (again) by Alexandre Dumas.

 

[DGoeij]

Finished Terry Pratchett's Going Postal

Bwaaah. I'm still waiting for the pocket edition to show its cover in the stores over here. Life isn't fair.

 

[Hammersmith]

Bwaaah. I'm still waiting for the pocket edition to show its cover in the stores over here. Life isn't fair.

Libraries are your friend, my child