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J.K. Rowling goes to court, suing a fan
Topic Started: Apr 14 2008, 10:14 PM (533 Views)
Noolsey
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Shouldn't a good book be aimed at the age of the fans though? The Hobbit was a childrens book, a good one but aimed at children nonetheless. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy was aimed at the same people, at their older, maturer age. And they're still great today. Harry Potter should be forgotten in 20 years.
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Apr 18 2008, 06:18 PM
Shouldn't a good book be aimed at the age of the fans though? The Hobbit was a childrens book, a good one but aimed at children nonetheless. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy was aimed at the same people, at their older, maturer age. And they're still great today. Harry Potter should be forgotten in 20 years.

I suppose, but the thing is those fans do think it's a good book, and as I read the books I did see it develop as the story went on even though it was a story I particularly didn't think was great.
I feel personnally everyone should be reading Nineteen-Eighty-four or All Quiet on the Western Front, though it's probably not to everyone elses taste but thats how things are.
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But in terms of the literature it's bad. Most writers will agree. The scriptwriters are around the same standard as her writing. It leaves something to be desired, to say the least.
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noosly the harry potter books were aimed at children but it just so happened that people of all ages and all nationalitys enjoyed them,

fair enough we would phone the police if a big hairy man bust into the room etc.. but also we would be like wtf! if twigs started making people levitate or big black things attacked us in the streets or unicorns or centors or anything else in the harry potter books exsisted! for god sake its a book make belive fiction etc....

there not a pedeophile script or something with no substance, your just been awkard looking to make an argument were there isnt one like i say everytime i post, i dont mind peoples opinions but your just been rediculas, if its anything "without any sunstance" its your argument!!
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Noolsey
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So what part does give it actual substance. "There's a bad guy" doesn not give something substance. Family murdered/start of as a farmer is the generic opening to most things now.

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J.K. Rowling's sensational wealth is as plain as the sky is blue, and only a frothing Harry Potter fanboy would think that the level of literary excellence exuded by the franchise is of a rank worth of a $4 billion global empire.


I love it ^. :p
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Really though, who decided Shakespeare's works are great?
They're not timeless, they pretty out of place for modern society and people don't understand the language. I've read one of his plays and it was readable, but I don't see how the plays would still be read and performed if they weren't declared as one of literature's greatest works.
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Shakespeare sucks, Romeo and Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio was fail. What with their language.
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Shakespeares plays aren't known as greats because they're timeless classics, it's really because he was really the first celebrity of the theatre and he was the first one to of had his play scripts kept in a collection, before then they were just discarded.
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Apr 18 2008, 07:29 PM
Really though, who decided Shakespeare's works are great?
They're not timeless, they pretty out of place for modern society and people don't understand the language. I've read one of his plays and it was readable, but I don't see how the plays would still be read and performed if they weren't declared as one of literature's greatest works.

Aah! I just lost an entire post! Damn it!

Anyway, I was saying something about people are idiots relate everything to his work because he covered every field possible now the exam boards wont let it die. Rome & Juliet is such a generic plaot, hi sworks are mediocre at best.

R&J is about a guy falluing for an illegally young girl, if you want to see something that's actually good and still along those sort of lines (well, not really :p ) watch Léon. It's a fantastic film.

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Mathilda, a twelve-year old New York girl, is living an undesirable life among her half-family. Her father stores drugs for two-faced cop Norman Stansfield. Only her little brother keeps Mathilda from breaking apart. One day, Stansfield and his team take cruel revenge on her father for stretching the drugs a little, thus killing the whole family. Only Mathilda, who was out shopping, survives by finding shelter in Léon's apartment in the moment of highest need. Soon, she finds out about the strange neighbour's unusual profession - killing - and desperately seeks his help in taking revenge for her little brother. Léon, who is completely unexperienced in fatherly tasks, and in friendships, does his best to keep Mathilda out of trouble - unsuccessfully. Now, the conflict between a killer, who slowly discovers his abilities to live, to feel, to love and a corrupt police officer, who does anything in his might to get rid of an eye witness, arises to unmeasurable proportions - all for the sake of a little twelve-year old girl, who has nearly nothing to lose.


See. Idiots can compare it to anything. Seriously, though. Léon is amazing. My favourite film. Sorry Butch, sorry Sundance, you come next.
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Ah yes Léon is an excellent film.
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