Hi Dark, Smile. Weather you love or hate fan fiction really wasn't my point. My basic point was that I never got excited or caught up in all the hype and fanfare the books and movies have generated. Yeah, I've read the books, I liked them, but they weren't something I'd go to extreme lengths to read. Let me explain that a bit.
Back in 2007, I think it was, the night before Deathly Hallows was to be released my wife and I were watching the 11:00 news and the news covered a story about people sleeping in there cars or litterally setting up camp sights right in front of the stores' entrences all just to be among the first customers to go in in buy Deathly Hallows. My wife and I both thought the people were a bit insane. What on earth could compell hundreds or perhaps thousands of people to stay up all night, have an all night vidual in front of a store, just to buy a book. It is not exactly rational behavior. If you look at it rationally if they gave it a week or so they could walk into any store, buy it, and not have to deal with everyone trying to climb over everyone else to get that book. Yet those people acted like it was the next best thing to the second coming. Then, I have this friend who reads those books at least once a month. No kidding I might call him up, ask him what he is doing, and he'll tell me he is rereading this or that Harry Potter book. I once asked him if he ever got tired of reading them. His answer was something to the effect they were the greatest books ever written. I disagree with him on that mainly because I am a huge reader and have read a lot of books. I've read books on history, the classics, science fiction, murder mysteries, romances, etc and I walk away with a lot of enjoyment from most books I read. For someone to say Harry Potter is the greatest thing ever written is in a sense saying everything else is second-class, and that's certainly not true at all. Bram Stoker's Dracula and Margaret Mitchel's Gone With the Wind have been rated as some of the greatest books of all time by readers and cridics. I have read them myself, and deeply enjoyed the authors' works. Daniel Steel writes some extremely compelling books I simply can not put down once the story really comes together. Nora Roberts is another author who writes some extremely good books. I could name lots mor authors I have enjoyed far more than Harry Potter.Even so I'm not going to camp outside the store just to get their next book in hard cover. To get back to the point I like the books, but they are to me just books. Nothing more and nothing less. However, I've observed that some people go to extremes. They act like Harry Potter is the greatest thing that ever was written, ever will be written, and it is almost become a religion for them. You know what I mean? Cheers! On 2/7/11, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Actually tom, even though I am! probably a reasonably big harry potter fan, > I avoid fan fiction like the plague sinse the vast majority of it is dire! > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
