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Harry Potter Wins Hugo
H.I. McDonnough writes "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling has won the Hugo for best novel. I'll refrain from commenting." I read the 2nd and 3rd Harry Potter books last week and they are just wonderful stories. I'm looking forward to reading this one. But a Hugo for SciFi Achievement? I have a hard time calling Potter stories Sci-Fi. But then again, since SF and Fantasy are often so blurred together, it probably is worth it. And anything that can get kids to read (or for that matter, get me to read a dead-tree version of anything) is good by me. And if you haven't read any Harry Potter books, then you aren't qualified to complain ;)
Wouldn't CmdrTaco's time be better spent fixing the Slashdot search features, rather than reading Harry Potter books?
I'm guessing the Hugo awards are losing press, so they try to get their name linked to Harry Potter to ride on his wave of popularity. And lo and behold, it's working! :)
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Gotta catch you all!
And anything that can get kids to read (or for that matter, get me to read a dead-tree version of anything) is good by me.
Im so tired of listening to people say stupid shit like this. If what you read is not better than what is on tv then there is no point in reading. If what you are reading however happens to be something good then cool yeah reading is good. but you get more out of watching and thinking about a movie by John Cassavetes than by reading a stupid book. Don't pick up a book just because it is a book. Read it because it is a good book.
And now on a completely different rant...
Contrary to what people at slashdot seem to think most scifi is not literature and it is not good. in fact very little scifi has any real aesthetic redeeming value or involves any real thinking. most of it is stupid shallow "philosophy" that couldn't stad next to plato, aristotle, descartes, spinoza, liebniz, locke, berkeley, hume, kant, schopenhauer, hegel, frege, russell, wittgenstein, Kripke, McDowell, etc... and on a literary side lets not even think that it can come close to Don Quijote, Hamlet, Ulysses, Divina Comedia, Ficciones, El Aleph, The Castle, The Trial, etc... So sure pick up a book there are tons of good ones that are better than spending a day watching a Star Trek marathon (Oh the heresy!).
Parent post: (+5, Brilliant, Shut Up You Stupid Slashbots Who Can't Even Find The Hugo Rules Using Google, Do You Honestly Think You're Some Sort Of Technological "Elite" If You Can't Even use A Search Engine?)
Wow, you actually have internet access in your trailer? Is it the wireless satellite stuff? I didn't think you could even get a phone hookup to a trailer.
Why do you live in a trailer? I don't know. Why do I think you live in a trailer, incorrect english, not married with kid. Does that baby referenced on a webpage belong to you? He mentions "it's mom" and "my girlfriend" differently. Hrmph.
Yes, you are wrong. Utterly, utterly wrong. Try finding out about something before posting in future.
WOW, you need to actually read the book that got the award before you can talk about it. Why is this idea so difficult for 90% of the posters here?
Given that logic, one cannot make fun of Mary Kate & Ashley Magazine without reading it cover to cover. Yikes.
I've never read the magazine. Why would I assume that I could make fun of it?
But given YOUR logic, I can go ahead and assume you're a child molestor, right? After all, I haven't met you, but you've indicated that it's OK to make any assumption I want without any evidence. I will notify the FBI immediately.
Of course, we know why you're making both these assumptions: popularity. Anything that is popular must be automatically bad. I picture you in your dank cellar, reading some obscure book, quietly seething that your book is not given the popularity that these "damn Harry Potter books" are given. Yes, it must be a conspiracy. The Hugo panel must have been bought off. Otherwise, why would they continue to ignore your fabulous, underrated book? You go back to reading your book for the 80th time.
Come out of the cellar, man, and just admit your book is a piece of crap. That's why people ignore it.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.