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Re: harry potter |
Jul 20, 2007, 15:07 |
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Haha...Bush will finally have a camera shoved up his ass and will know what it feels like. Too bad he'll not learn from it.
If anything, the first book by itself (and I'm told the 2nd too) will put you off the series, you just have to trust that it gets better.
Oh yes, Rowling wrote the first book when she was knocked up and working in a cafe in England, so she was doing good to just establish the whole setting and characters. The series gets better with the second book, but truly starts humming along with the third.
That said, the fourth book is a bit of an unexpected addition in that you go from relatively short books and familiar storytelling to a book that is much much longer in length.
If you think they are just for children you are mistaken as the books get quite a bit darker as the series progresses.
That idea still amuses me. I mean, most books for adults aren't the length of the books in the latter half of the HP series.
Yeah, but we're RIGHT when we say it!
Now that is funny! 
Of course, the blame for that is decades of bad decisions, not the fault of any particular generation.
Sorry, but it just strikes me as hypocritical to fault or assume the current and next couple of generations of kids to be bad when considering generations of Americans from the previous century. Sorry, your kids are simply inheriting a world shaped by their predecessors.
I still believe I'll live to see a economic collapse in the US which will make the 1930s look like a cake walk.
I do believe it's possible. Considering America really hasn't played by anyone's rules except its own for the last half century it's a little fun to see the conservatives (who are anything but) and reactionaries react to having to play by the rules of conduct the rest of the civilized world has more or less adopted. IE, a lot of people have long realized it kind of costs more to invade a country for its natural resources now than to simply buy from them
And let's face it, hardly any American is familiar with the concept of absolute poverty or even has a good idea what it is. If the economy were to collapse and hyperinflation were to follow, I'd argue a civil war could break out. I mean, really, US military personnel aren't paid much to truly secure loyalty (sorry, I think the Stars and Stripes only go so far here), so dissidence could also be a factor there. Well, that last consideration applies to US military units still physically in the United States.
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