The Ranting Room

I love to read, I am lost without a book...... my reading habit started VERY young with Enid Blyton, there has been a lot of talk about how these books were not good, ...... but hey, it started a habit that has stayed with me all my life!
My kids read a lot, especially my son.
I get bored with the HP "Hype" but I totally agree with Jim, HP and Tolkien..... great ways to fire the imaginations of kids!!! (cheaper than a PS2 too!!!)

There is nothing wrong with Harry Potter or The Lord Of The Rings - sure, they've been adopted by cinema (with varying degrees of success), but the film adaptations and the media hype detract from the fact these books are getting young people reading. They are getting parents reading to their kids - for the first time in God knows how long there is a genuine anticipation among children (and some adults ) for the release of a book - not some shoot-em-up game for their PC/X-Box/PS3/Commodore 64, but a book!

Of course it's being over hyped, and of course it's now become an industry, and of course there'll be kids pathetically dressed up as witches & wizards at midnight on the day of release... but the bottom line is, the Harry Potter books are well written fantasy for children - if you've read all the books (as have I), you'll know that each book has progressed in writing style and plot complexity - these are no 'Janet & John' books, you have to think. If just a small number of these kids go from JK Rowling to JRR Tolkein & then develop a love of books in general as a result of a combination of being enthused at an early age by the simple joy of reading and well made film adaptations, then it cannot be a bad thing.

I admit it freely - I am looking forward to the release of the next book - I have it pre-ordered on Amazon, so yah boo shucks to the lot of you!

heyitsthatguy wrote: Geck0 wrote: Harry Potter,  diehard Harry Potter fans and anything else that's weird about Harry Potter. Why why why!  Can't people wait patiently for the book to come out?  Fandom is weird and I've never understood it. I'm hoping Rowling kills him off.  I feel kind of sorry for her, she probably never invisaged all of this.  If I was her, I'd have killed him off much earlier, rather than having to deal with all that stress and silly fans. Meh, Harry Potter fever just gets to me. From The Guardian Online: Diehard fans will be planning just how they can get to the head of the queue at midnight on July 21 - named yesterday on JK Rowling's website as publication day for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the series. Bookshops were braced for the now traditional witching hour scrum and at least one said it planned to set up a helpline for fans after Rowling warned that two characters die in the final instalment - and hinted that they are central figures. This is what I mean.  It's just a book people! At this point, the only reason I'm going to read the book is just to see who dies...I hope Harry does, sheerly for the reaction of all the fanbois and gurls

And another ing thing is David ing Cameron's brief experience with da ganja while he was poncing about in ing Eton like any er gives a flying  I mean him and the majority of British teenagers over the last 50 years but what really ed me off was him maintaining a prissy ing silence and his PR people saying we all do things we regret - my ing arse! Not quite as bad as Bill ing Clinton's 'I did not inhale' cop out - too ing weak willed to say no, too ing scared to try it, more like - why can't one of those ing ers who presume to rule our lives just say 'I did it and what's more I ing enjoyed it and no ing regrets' - now that would get my vote even for a ing Tory ing  like Cameron!

Syzygy wrote:   And let's not forget the long running Essex blues band The Hamsters.

The Miracle wrote: People.... Their utter inability to shut up is horrible.

Says a man with in excess of 22,300 posts to his name

Harry Potter,  diehard Harry Potter fans and anything else that's weird about Harry Potter.

Why why why!  Can't people wait patiently for the book to come out?  Fandom is weird and I've never understood it.

I'm hoping Rowling kills him off.  I feel kind of sorry for her, she probably never invisaged all of this.  If I was her, I'd have killed him off much earlier, rather than having to deal with all that stress and silly fans.

Meh, Harry Potter fever just gets to me.

From The Guardian Online:

Diehard fans will be planning just how they can get to the head of the queue at midnight on July 21 - named yesterday on JK Rowling's website as publication day for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the series.

Bookshops were braced for the now traditional witching hour scrum and at least one said it planned to set up a helpline for fans after Rowling warned that two characters die in the final instalment - and hinted that they are central figures.

This is what I mean.  It's just a book people!

Edited by Geck0 - February 09 2007 at 02:18

People. Why don;t they all just die? Loud, annoying, stupid creatures crawling all over the place trying to be as annoying as it is virtually possible, making me want ti kill myself more and more with every day. Their utter inability to shut up is horrible. Why does some asshole have to come and say something stupid whenever you get excited over something. Whatever I am happy about, someone will come and spoil everything with his/her stupid opinion about how much they hate it as I dream about ripping their brains out with fishing hooks. the entire world exists just to piss me off. There's no retreat from them. Like last Friday when I went to the mountains to take a rest from people, there were plastic bottles in the middle of the forest, that i had to take out for the asshole that left them. Damn, I hate people so much I want to become a hermit and go far into the woods and live there alone, and whenever I see a person he gets a poisoned arrow in his guts. 

Also, The Beacon Theatre is spelt as Theatre, so the Americans don't know what they're doing...

At least be consistent!  Theater or Theatre.  Not one or the other.

Syzygy wrote: Arrrghus wrote: Syzygy wrote: sleeper wrote: ^ I see you cant wait for the new album either.   My life won't be complete until I get my sweaty little hands on it !   Incidentally, if you like flugelhorns I recommend the Art Farmer Quartet's Sing Me Softly Of The Blues - jazz without a hint of rock, but some splendid flugelhorn and two immense compositions by Carla Bley.   Anyway, back to the ing ranting ...

I'll check into it (if I have the time... and money!)