I like the Harry Potter books just as much as anyone, but I really think this is getting out of hand. Movies, board games, action figures, clothing, and candy? When will it ever stop? In a few years, we will all look back on this and think how stupid the whole thing was anyway. And how much are the paying the kid playing Harry Potter? I don't care its too much! I just felt like fuming a little.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
While you're at it, why don't you fume about rock salt? It really ticks me off.
Posted by dread pirate romany (Member # 6869) on :
But...feeding his little brother sardine Bertie Botts was one of the highlights of my eldest's Christmas!
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
I like rock salt.
Posted by the_Somalian (Member # 6688) on :
The first three books were good.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Ohhh, don't get me started on rock salt! Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Sitting there, all big. Not content to be a nice, sensible-sized grain. Thinks it's so hot because it's used to make ice cream.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Ummmm.. we used to suck on pieces of rock salt when growing up.....
Posted by Traveler (Member # 3615) on :
I have no trouble with Harry Potter. If these books help to create a whole new generation of readers then more power to them.
Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
I like cheese.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Were you sucking on the rock salt, Farmgirl, or was the rock salt sucking on you?
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
If people didn't over-rate Harry Potter, they'd find some other proxy to worship.
Posted by MidnightBlue (Member # 6146) on :
Why not just enjoy the books, and ignore all of the merchandizing? How much money Daniel Ratcliff makes has absolutely nothing to do with whether they are good books, or even whether they're good movies.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:Why not just enjoy the books, and ignore all of the merchandizing?
Because the rock salt won't let us!
Posted by MidnightBlue (Member # 6146) on :
So pour some water on it.
Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
Tom made me giggle like mad.
Posted by Trisha the Severe Hottie (Member # 6000) on :
Does Harry Potter also dissolve in water? How does that work in the whole witchy thing?
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
He disolves in water, but things can get really ugly if you make a super-saturated HP solution.
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Rock salt and Mt. Dew tastes kind of good.
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
And wherever you sow Harry Potter, nothing will grow...
Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
In Soviet Russia, the salt sea rocks you.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Look on the bright side, JK Rowling who started off poor, on the dole as a single mother is now making a kabillion dollars. She totally deserves it for coming up with such an excellent series. Now, what I want is for them to start selling Quidditch jerseys! I'd love to have a full set of them! But, as long as the stories are good, I don't really care what they do.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
"a few years, we will all look back on this and think how stupid the whole thing was anyway"
That is what someone probably said about the 1956 Little Richard concert poster that my cousin sold on Ebay for 12,000 bucks.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Nobody, and I mean nobody deserves as much money as she has gotten.
But out of all the people to get it, she's better than most.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I love Hatrack.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
IF i can't be rich, why not some other person who does a really good job? Just because I'm going to spend the rest of my life making four digits, doesn't meaen that someone out there who can make me that happy with a book series shouldn't make... 20 digits... *slightly jealous*
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Syn, just make sure your four digits are multiplied exponentially, and you will be fine. Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
I like the books. I don't like the jellybeans.
[ December 28, 2004, 09:16 PM: Message edited by: Tater ]
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:Nobody, and I mean nobody deserves as much money as she has gotten.
None of us deserve any amount of money.
Heck, I didn't do anything to deserve being born, or to be provided with a planet with the right amount of gravity, sunlight, oxygen, and water for me to exist.
Kind of the flip side of "We've all got it coming."
Dagonee
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
quote:None of us deserve any amount of money.
Thank you for articulating that, Dag. It's one of my biggest problems with the world today.
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
She's the answer to every struggling artist;s dream - developing her story on cheap paper napkins sucking down a perpetual cup of coffee.
*sigh*
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
quote:Nobody, and I mean nobody deserves as much money as she has gotten.
Hey, at least she's not Bill Gates.
My younger daughter - just turned 9 - finished the first four books in 2 weeks. I had to buy the fifth book for her for Christmas. She's on page 389 out of 870 pages just since Saturday morning. She tells me that when she's on page 435 she'll be exactly halfway through the book. So, the HP books are good for reading and math.
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