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Deathly Hallows / OOTP Movie Discussion
At midnight on Friday Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released, ending the ten year run of J.K. Rowling's extremely popular book series. I imagine that there are a few folks here who have already read the book and want to talk about it. Likewise, the movie version of Order of the Phoenix was recently released (a film I was kind of underwhelmed by). So ... what did you think of them? Be forewarned: I imagine the comments will be filled with spoilers.
Harry is gay.
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Harry Potter is thinly-veiled homosexual propaganda, read all about it here http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/7/16/162353/730
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Now that I would pay for. Don't get me wrong it's great that kids are reading but seriously adults could we all read something a little more challenging some Eco perhaps, Hofstadter, Orwell or Burroughs even. Ah well never mind, I've chosen not to read or watch anything related to potter because it just doesn't interest me, give me something which makes me think and I'm there. On the other hand the Curious incident of the dog in the night, whilst also a children's book would probably appeal to most of the readers of /. being about a kid with Aspergers syndrome.
It's "Deathly Hallows" NOT "Deathly Hollows". It has nothing to do with a Johnny Depp movie. Does everything need to be extracted, simplified, reheated and served in a paper cup for you fuckwit Americans? Have a nice day, Slashbot bitches. Oh, and Linux SUCKS.
Potter's never interested me either. Crap IMHO, though I am sure there's plenty of people round here who would strongly disagree with that. Good for them if they like it themselves, just that I don't. Insightful about the Aspergers, but I can't let you have any of my mod points 'cos I already posted.
That author better be gay himself otherwise he sounds like one of those closet cocksuckers
When was the last time there was a slashdot article about a good SF novel? Something genuinely thought inducing, something that challenges the mind, something which speaks to our future? There are plenty of new books like that.
Why is there this slashdot post about an inane fantasy book, written with greasy teens and kids in mind?
Can I look forward to slashdot posts about every over-hyped, lame, worthless book/film/single/TV program that comes out in future?
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Rowling is actually a pretty terrible writer; her writing is unchallenging and quite obvious, and her prose is not very good. Frankly, I think that the ability to read through a nine hundred page book in eight hours indicates that the writing is in no way dense or difficult to comprehend and it doesn't really spark thought. I think she used a very good idea (the magical academy hidden away in the real modern world) but her writing, the plot, and the like is quite generic. She put a twist on it, but the books are in no way stimulating; they don't use difficult words and she made up silly nonsense words rather than use actual extant terminology (apportation instead of teleportation? Seriously). It is just plain old silly, and her writing is throughly unchallenging. They aren't serious or deep books at all, and to be honest I think a lot of it is rather trite and oversimplified. The fact that I could call most of the major plot points of the seventh book (Harry being the last horcrux, Voldemort dying, Harry pissing off his friends by trying to go it alone, ect.) and the high degree of repitition throughout the series indicates she isn't that good of a writer.
I think a good writer is marked by creativity, not regurgitating something we've all seen a hundred times before. Every theme in the books has been done before, and her lack of stimulating writing makes it rather a wasteland.
I suspect that at least in part, a lot of people pretend to like the books because they think it is cool to do so for whatever reason. As they say, high school never ends. She is a demonstrably poor writer in her limited vocabulary and her lack of depth in the story. The sixth book was wretched, as were the first and second, and many parts of all the books feel lame.
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