HarryTarded
Okay you guys. I like Harry Potter just fine. It's an easy read, and a great piece of fiction for young adults. Let me say that again. Young adults. It is published by Scholastic. You know, the book company that did all those book fairs and sold you joke books and Mad Libs as a kid? Yeah. As far as adult (read: mature, refined) fiction goes, it's contrived, predictable and frankly just plain cheesy. You can read the book in a weekend, because it's meant for kids. This is why it completely baffles me when adults start acting Harrytarded. Take this article I found today titled "Some Potter Fans Find Pages Missing".
Leanne Greer, 36, had gone on "lock down" — no television, radio or Internet — after buying her copy of "Deathly Hallows" at about 7 a.m. on Saturday. She said she finished reading page 306, then discovered the next 33 pages of the book were missing."I just kind of freaked out," said Greer, a Purdue University graduate with degrees in elementary education and English. "My husband said, 'Why are you screaming?' He said 'I thought one of the kids was hurt.'"
Luckily for Greer, she had a backup for her store-bought copy; she had ordered another copy online.
"I'm just that psychotic about it," she said.
She tore open the package that arrived in the mail and kept reading.
Jesus people. This is news? I am all for kids reading more, that part of Harry Potter mania is fantastic. Reading helps you develop vocabulary, imagination, and interest in a wide variety of subjects. But these adults who go nutso over Harry Potter, what do they get out of it? Are we immersed in a culture of drooling half-matured adults, grasping onto pop culture so frantically they are afraid something may slip through their fingers? I just cannot figure it out. This lady should be tranquilized, and her driver's license should be taken away. These are the kinds of obnoxious people who think that The DaVinci Code was a stunning work of fiction. If you're gonna read trash, at the very least read some Anne Rice. At least there's gay vampire sex in that.
Harry Potter is good, but it's not gay vampire sex good.
