I'll say this, I never once remember reading any book near 800 pages as a kid.  The longest books I would read were the Hardy Boys.  I used to read a book a week at least.  That was before video game systems were widely out though.

omg jas.. i used to have those and the nancy drew books... they (at that time in life) were some of the best... the hardy boys were the bomb back then.....

I am amazed at the support for Harry Potter. 

 

For some reason I did not like the books (I read the first and the first 150 pages of the second before losing interest).  Everyone I talk to can not believe I did not like them, but I just couldn't get my self interested.

 

Some people say that the books are sacreligious, I for one say they are definately not. 

 

CW, I know you are clergy and have good input on things like this.  What is your take on Harry Potter's relationship with religion?

Harry Potter is a story that has magical elements like any number of stories. There are any number of people who love to attack things because it is a great way to raise money: pronounce something the devil's tool and you can sell a lot of books, get media time, and get results from fund raising letters to fight this new horror. And it is all bulls***, in my opinion. Harry Potter is a story and nothing more, nothing less. Just like Cinderella.

 

Whenever money can be made by bombastic crusades against this latest new work of the satanic one - whether it be rock in roll in its day or whatever the topic de jour - there will be some idiots right there bashing and trashing and pocketing money all at the same time.

Its getting children to read 800 page books, so I'm all for it. Kids should read more anyway.

yes they should...mine do.......espically when i ground the ps2....

I am amazed at the support for Harry Potter. 

 

For some reason I did not like the books (I read the first and the first 150 pages of the second before losing interest).  Everyone I talk to can not believe I did not like them, but I just couldn't get my self interested.

 

Some people say that the books are sacreligious, I for one say they are definately not. 

 

CW, I know you are clergy and have good input on things like this.  What is your take on Harry Potter's relationship with religion?

Harry Potter is a story that has magical elements like any number of stories. There are any number of people who love to attack things because it is a great way to raise money: pronounce something the devil's tool and you can sell a lot of books, get media time, and get results from fund raising letters to fight this new horror. And it is all bulls***, in my opinion. Harry Potter is a story and nothing more, nothing less. Just like Cinderella.

 

Whenever money can be made by bombastic crusades against this latest new work of the satanic one - whether it be rock in roll in its day or whatever the topic de jour - there will be some idiots right there bashing and trashing and pocketing money all at the same time.

Its getting children to read 800 page books, so I'm all for it. Kids should read more anyway.

Reading requires a healthy attention span and imagination. Anyone who starts reading after ages of 13-14--after years of sports, television, internet and video games--will have greater difficulty getting into it.

 

So from that standpoint, Potter (Wizard of Oz for my generation, though Marquise de Sade tickled me fancy) does a lot of good by involving kids from a very young, impressionable age.

 

(However, if you are an Ordothox Jew, fundamentalist Christian or Muslim, I can certainly see why you wouldn't want you child to read it)

hey brando i thought you were gonna save me.......lol.......im waiting.......

hey brando i thought you were gonna save me.......lol.......im waiting.......

My biggest flaw is that I still don't have chest hair, I am damaged goods

My biggest flaw is that I still don't have chest hair,  I am damaged goods

that can also be a good thing... you dont want to look like robin williams do ya??? yikes.......

I'll say this, I never once remember reading any book near 800 pages as a kid.  The longest books I would read were the Hardy Boys.  I used to read a book a week at least.  That was before video game systems were widely out though.

Lol....for seventh and eighth grade reading I red all 4 of the books, plus A Season on the Brink......that's an interesting mix...I'm all for a good book...I read Black Hawk Down before it came out in the theaters....a 100 times better.

The longest book I read was freshman year of HS I read "Battlefield Earth" that was over 1000 pages. I also have read every Tom Clancy book ever made.

that can also be a good thing... you dont want to look like robin williams do ya???   yikes.......

Do you think I am a disgrace to my race? In my culture hair signifies manhood and character.

 

 

 

 

(I have hair where it counts, tho)

thats it... try reading war and peace for s***s and giggles... or a class assignment.........talk about long...........

Do you think I am a disgrace to my race? In my culture hair signifies manhood and character.

 

 

 

 

(I have hair where it counts, tho)

no not a disgrace at all...........hair doesnt mean s*** to ones manlyhood.....or lack there of.........its just more s*** to get in the way .......or stuck in your teeth lol.........

The longest book I read was freshman year of HS I read "Battlefield Earth" that was over 1000 pages

 

 

As someone who merceliessly mocks anything within 20 rhetorical mile radius of Mr. Hubbard and Sciencefiction, er, Scientology...I couldn't let that one go by without a chuckle. Pay me no mind.

 

 

(Jack Ryan is one bad mofo. Check that, he is one bad dork . )

As someone who merceliessly mocks anything within 20 rhetorical miles radius of Mr. Hubbard and Sciencefiction, er, Scientology...I couldn't let that one go by without a chuckle.  Pay me no mind.

 

 

(Jack Ryan is one bad mofo.  Check that, he is a one bad dork . )

Never read that scientology crap. That is just cultish. Good scifi is a different story...

 

As someone who merceliessly mocks anything within 20 rhetorical miles radius of Mr. Hubbard and Sciencefiction, er, Scientology...I couldn't let that one go by without a chuckle.  Pay me no mind.

 

 

(Jack Ryan is one bad mofo.  Check that, he is a one bad dork . )

Never read that scientology crap. That is just cultish. Good scifi is a different story...

*cough*Stanislav Lem *spit*

thats it... try reading war and peace for s***s and giggles... or a class assignment.........talk about long...........  

Tolstoy...it's longer than uncle Miltie's Berle.

Tolstoy...it's longer than uncle Miltie's Berle.

and just how long is uncle milts berle???? inquireing minds want to know.....

and just how long is uncle milts berle???? inquireing minds want to know.....

Do I have 'Alan Zweibel' written on my forehead, cutsie pie?

CW,

No my friend was not schooled in theology and yes it scares me also.  He is quite the fundementalist. Still overall he's well meaning. I love debating poloitics and religion with him.

 

One thing I've noticed with many of this type is the need to exagerate how bad their lives were before being saved.

a conversion story is only as good as it the depravity that came before.

 

I coveted my neighbor's wheelbarrow doesn't cut it - at a real evangelism rally the confessions of the sinners who have now found the light read like stuff of Penthouse letters - the more degenerate the better the conversion is - so the stories get better and better - and are near porn sometimes

 

and the lack of theological training is deadly. That they are well meaning is a problem because they are so sincere. But they are so dangerous. They say things to teens that is bulls***, just the limited and narrow religion they know. In my congregations, I have a rigid grasp on what is said and taught - I keep control - has to be that way to presevre the uniformity and the value of the message.

 

Don't forget to ask him what Church festival or church event is remembered on October 31st - $10 says he ahs no clue without looking it up.

Do I have 'Alan Zweibel' written on my forehead, cutsie pie?

hmmm that depends on wether your lookin in the mirror or not.. you could have nala lediewz instead............lol.........sorry.. that was bad.......

My biggest flaw is that I still don't have chest hair,  I am damaged goods

Think of it as a higher order of creation - or evolution. The more advanced of the species have hair on the heads and where else necessary, it is the lower evolutionary orders that have hairy musk ox body hair and often in time none on their head.

Think of it as a higher order of creation - or evolution.  The more advanced of the species have hair on the heads and where else necessary, it is the lower evolutionary orders that have hairy musk ox body hair and often in time none on their head.

The problem with you "evolutionists" and your crackpot theories is that I am as dumb as a bocks of rox. LOL.

and just how long is uncle milts berle???? inquireing minds want to know.....

Besides, who cares about lenght- girth is where's it at, oh naive one!

I was shocked to see all of the books lined up and not brought when I went to the mall on sat.

 

BE GOOD

I was shocked to see all of the books lined up and not brought when I went to the mall on sat.

 

BE GOOD

Long lines at Barnes & Noble here. I was picking up Beowulf and Frankenstein for a course I'm taking this fall and wanted to ask if they had Potter and non Potter lines.

 

They only had two left as I was leaving at 9:50 a.m. Saturday.

Besides, who cares about lenght-  girth is where's it at, oh naive one!

actually length and girth dont mean s*** if you dont know how to use it properly........ just a helpful fyi.........