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30 Jun 2005, 8:11 pm

Sanityisoverrated wrote:

Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain...

One of my favorites!! !! !

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30 Jun 2005, 9:54 pm

I like Lupin more than I like Sirius. Sirius was too childish. I probably would be also if I spent all that time in Azkaban, though.

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Oh no... Please don't threaten me with badly written, cliche, and mostly plagiarized Harry Potter magic!

I am not going to attack you as it seems others have already done that. I would like to mention though that it is possible to argue that any piece of literature has been plagarised from somewhere. Everything has already been done before.

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01 Jul 2005, 3:12 am

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And since when can you read toilet paper?

After you've eaten lots of alphabet soup, obviously.

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01 Jul 2005, 5:24 am

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I tried reading The Hobbit but couldn't get past the 1st page. Sorry Tolkien fans.

I was the same with the hobbit. LOTRs a lot better, if you can get past the first chapter, which, granted, is quite hard going. The Hobbit was mainly ritten to leed up to LOTR, i think.

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01 Jul 2005, 8:44 am

Sanityisoverrated wrote:

Mockingbird wrote:

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Haha Sanity, we have you cornered!! :twisted:

Oh no... Please don't threaten me with badly written, cliche, and mostly plagiarized Harry Potter magic!

Want to read a good series about wizards? Try Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series, Terry Pratchett's Rincewind stuff, Raymond E. Fiest's Magican series, Ed Greenwood's Elminster stuff, Stephen Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle, and numerous other REAL books.

That's not even including the numerous great fantasy series' that aren't wizard focused- Isobelle Carmody's Obernewtyn Chronicles, Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain, R.A. Salvatore's many excellent Drizzt series', Terry Brooks' many works, The Conan books, C.S. Lewis' Narnia, a little guy called Tolkien and some little book he wrote, and many more...

Try reading the classics (many of which are available for free online)- lots of great fantasy there! The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, Beowulf, Shakespeare, HG Wells, Jules Verne, Edgar Allen Poe, and many many more...

All that barely scratches the surface.

Want to read the exact same thing as Harry Potter, except with a female protagonist, and published many years earlier? Try the Worst Witch.

Heck- read Enid Blyton, read A.A Milne, read Lewis Carrol, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr Seuss... Goodness! Read the various plots and stories from The Elder Scrolls, Warcraft, Baldur's Gate, and other VIDEO GAMES.

Read the back of a milk carton! Read your toilet paper! Read between the lines of Jean Claude Van Damme's boot in that scene at the beginning of Time Cop! Read a newspaper! Read your horoscope! Read someone's palm! Read the bit of paper inside a CD cover! READ THE BIBLE!

...But for godssakes people, get over that excrement that is Harry frikking overrated rip-off Potter!

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01 Jul 2005, 8:44 am

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ilikedragons wrote:

And since when can you read toilet paper?

After you've eaten lots of alphabet soup, obviously.

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01 Jul 2005, 10:50 am

I mean there isn't any writing on it or anything.

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01 Jul 2005, 3:43 pm

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And since when can you read toilet paper?

After you've eaten lots of alphabet soup, obviously.

/me dies laughing

I can't believe how long it took me to get that!

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02 Jul 2005, 10:38 am

But if he's gonna start insulting it, he should get the bloody hell off the thread and go insult it somwhere else. :evil:

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02 Jul 2005, 1:24 pm

Archmage wrote:

But if he's gonna start insulting it, he should get the bloody hell off the thread and go insult it somwhere else. :evil:

That is a bit harsh. He is entitled to his opinions.

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02 Jul 2005, 2:04 pm

He insulted Harry Potter. On a Harry Potter thread. :evil: Bet Sanity never even READ the books.

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02 Jul 2005, 2:12 pm

ilikedragons wrote:

He insulted Harry Potter. On a Harry Potter thread. :evil:

Bet Sanity never even READ the books.

Probably not.

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02 Jul 2005, 2:28 pm

Sanityisoverrated wrote:

ilikedragons wrote:

And since when can you read toilet paper?

After you've eaten lots of alphabet soup, obviously.

I dont get it...

Can sumone explain that?

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02 Jul 2005, 3:53 pm

Oh dear.....

Please don't tell me I have to watch a Harry Potter thread for flame wars now.... :roll:

I like Lupin. Sirius is ok but too one dimensional.

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02 Jul 2005, 4:05 pm

I like Lupin best.

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02 Jul 2005, 6:24 pm

ROFL.

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