Things that piss you off Page 167

Quote: Aaron @ May 16 2008, 8:33 PM BST

*shakes head in dismay*

Have you ever read the Harry Potter books? Or indeed The Da Vinci Code?

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Read a bit of Da Vinci, very poor. Read a few chapters of two of the Potter books (my girlfriend has them) and thought Id better things to do then read a kids book. That may not have actually been true, but I still didnt read them. If you want truly great and imaginative fantasy novels, which were also aimed at children (albeit older children) read Phillip Pullmans 'His Dark Materials' trilogy; on a higher plain altogether than the Potter books. Film was shit though.

Quote: Aaron @ May 16 2008, 8:34 PM BST

I think you're forgetting Slough.

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Slough's just horrifically grey. Croydon is the true focal point of scum everywhere. Stabbings are a regular occurrence here, our MP was arrested (not charged I might add) for attacking his wife and we have the Whitgift Center.

It's entirely typical of the Coydon middle class who live in the leafy suburbs to decry Croydon as a gruesome place, makes us look hard!

I've read all the Harry Potter books, and love them!

But then I'm not ashamed of liking kids stuff.
I watch loads of cartoons too.

I have tried Phillip Pullman's books, but although they are well written, I just can't get into them.

I read the first two of "His Dark Materials" but then GCSE mocks set in and I didn't get a chance to read the third. I'm afraid I'll have to re-read the first two to have any hope of following the third.

Quote: zooo @ May 16 2008, 8:39 PM BST

But then I'm not ashamed of liking kids stuff.
I watch loads of cartoons too.

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Me either really, the Hoobs rule in the morning, just for some reason the whole adoration of Rowling and her books got on my tits, and I dont even have tits.

Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ May 16 2008, 8:37 PM BST

Your flock are straying, Aaron!

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*brandishes mace, warningly*

You're aggressive today!

Quote: Matthew Stott @ May 16 2008, 8:38 PM BST

Read a bit of Da Vinci, very poor. Read a few chapters of two of the Potter books (my girlfriend has them) and thought Id better things to do then read a kids book. That may not have actually been true, but I still didnt read them.

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Yup never bought into the "oh Harry lets jump on our brooms and fly about chasing a ball with wings on pip, pip"

Plus Rowlings had all that success and yet still looks like shes sucking on a piss covered lemon whenever shes on TV.

Erm. Gav's clearly not read any either.

Nope seen the films though. I quite like them.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ May 16 2008, 8:44 PM BST

Plus Rowlings had all that success and yet still looks like shes sucking on a piss covered lemon whenever shes on TV.

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She's been styled out of all recongnition by her "people".

Quote: Gavin @ May 16 2008, 8:43 PM BST

Yup never bought into the "oh Harry lets jump on our brooms and fly about chasing a ball with wings on pip, pip"

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Nope. Plus Ive worked in a kids book shop, and every other book featured boy wizards and very similar plots to Potter, I never could understand why this one happened to catch on so much. Im sure its well written and everything, but so were a lot of the others that were left unloved on the shelf.

Yes. It's all very mysterious. Just blind luck really.
I would kill to be one of the lucky few.

(Not that I write about wizards.)