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I am amused that the only two values for literary quality are Harry Potter and Tom Clancy. It is like: you can cut off an arm, or: gouge out one eye.
But I kid the books about wizards and submarines. I do not even know how to read. Books are for old people. It is video games and pornography for me. Also war coverage.
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quote:Originally posted by aneurysm: Its a shame when a group of grown men go out and read CHILDREN'S BOOKS.
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1) I have no idea whatsoever why adults/teenagers shouldn't read childrens books from time to time. I mean really, what is wrong with it?
2) Back on opic- the book itself. I thought it was pretty good, actually. Darker than the previous one and I would argue the series is actually moving away from being a children's book. The death was well handled. I definitely think the last two have been better than the first 3; there's more of a feeling of the impending battle. The tension is certainly building up. And Harry is a teenager. and he's pissed off with almost everyone; the changes in his charecter are done well, although there isn't really as much change in the others.
3) The American version is 100 pages longer than the UK version. Due to larger line spacing and type. And illustrations.
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Okay, since this thread has no spoiler warnings, and, so far, no spoilers, I just want to say that we should keep it that way. If anyone wants to talk about what specifically happens in the book, start a new thread w/ spoiler warnings.
This isn't aimed at anyone, BTW. It's just that I had someone asking about spoilers, because there were no warnings, and they didn't want to read the thread w/o knowing whether they would be exposed to something.
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quote:Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: TSN, would you mind adding some $$$ to the thread title, por-favor?
I think you can do that yourself as thread starter.
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Charles put in an update that limits the time for an edit to two hours after posting.
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quote:Originally posted by Siegfried: By that same token, I suppose it's a damn shame that I watch X-Men Evolution, Futurama, Family Guy, Zoids, SpongeBob SquarePants, Kim Possible, and Zoids New Century Zero. After all, they're all cartoons aired on such epitomes of cable television such as Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Disney Channel.
I dunno, Futurama and Family Guy are aimed more towards the college age (18-24 and beyond) males than anything as you would almost have to be that age to get half of the humor, and the fact that they are on "Adult Swim" on Cartoon Network. It also goes to say that with Futurama and Family Guy (I'm not sure about the others you mentioned, I dont watch them) that they don't mass produce toys aimed at children in support of such aforementioed media. The case with Harry Potter - of which I am neither bashing or defending; I'm only defending the two above mentioned - there is literally hundreds of different toys made solely for children as would indicate the target audience. Lego especially seems to have a corner on the Harry Potter market and all of those toys seem to be aimed at children upto age 12. On the other hand, the same can be said about some of the reissued Lego Legends that would be aimed at the adults now that originally had the sets 20 years ago.
Oh, and Spongebob is humorous and is highly infectous among college folk...especially females. If it were not for his annoying laugh the show, IMO, Spongebob falls a couple notches short of the classic Ren & Stimpy cartoons of a few years back.
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Also, I will not add spoiler warnings to the thread title, since, as I already said, this thread should remain spoiler-free.
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Snay, I'll go with Tim on this and leave this thread spoiler free. However, I have created a thread with spoiler warnings here for the actual story discussion.
Futurama Guy, I agree with most of what you're saying, but even if the primary audience for the books is aimed at children it doesn't mean that the older audiences are excluded. After all, look at how big Transformers are among adults and look at who the series have been primarily marketed to.
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But the thing with Transformers is that they were a cartoon/toys introduced in something like 1982, so like the Lego Legends/Star Wars, they are toys (or a tv show) that is intentionally aimed at those adults in their 20's who have money and can go buy the toys they could never have when they were 6 or for even further sentimental or nostalgic reasons. Harry Potter, on the other hand, is a new phenomenon, to the Transformers and X-Men's new spin-offs 10-20year history.
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As a comic book, the X-Men have been around a lot longer than that.
And the difference between the Transformers and Harry Potter is that the Transformers were really never more than a toy line that advertised in comic and cartoon form, rather than commercials. Harry Potter is well-conceived literature, even if it's a little lacking in such "adult" attributes as rampant sex and gore.
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Well, it has got a flying car. I don't know if that counts. A little too Absent-Minded Professor-ish, perhaps.
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