Recently, someone asked me Why do you hate the Harry Potter books, Jen?
Well, I thought my reply pretty much said it all... and so here is my Harry Potter rant...
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Well... I read the first one and I thought it was so boring I burnt it, I loathe spending money on something thats reputed to be so great and it turns out to be a heap of childish toss. The worst witch was far superior. I saw the movie, it was so crap it defied crap. The actors couldnt act, the script wasnt there, the story was awful.
For kids I think its great, thats fine, read away younguns, expand your minds.
But its the adults that get me, its totally fucking braindead, I just dont get it. I cant stand the hype, over some woman who was poor and wrote a crappy story and suddenly, wahey, shes the saviour of literature. Well, so is every other author that ever made money. Stephen King was poor as hell before he got published, and his books f**king rock (well, most of them) and take actual brains to read, challenge the mind. You dont hear about people cueing for days to buy his bloody books. Theres thousands of rags to riches author stories out there so why is this woman so much more important? because she did it for the kids! yey!
I dunno, I dont hate Harry Potter per se... id like it a whole lot more if it had a plot, and a cast that wasnt so sickly sweet it makes me wanna spew puppy parts. I just dont get why adults like it... i really dont. It takes the intellect of a boiled carrot to get it and see the plot turns coming a mile off *shrug* but I guess its just escapism or what have you. I'm allowed that opinion.
In reality I dont really care what people do with their time and hard earnt money, if you wanna cue for days to buy a book you can just walk into woolworths today and get without cueing... fine. Just stop shoving it down my throat. Im sick of seeing and hearing about it.
Thats just me *g* No offence anyone.