"Tonight, we read Harry Potter. Hope you're doing the same."
Nope.
For MY, it's Jagged Little Pill. For ogged . . .
Nope, saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Much better than the reviews I've seen would lead one to believe. The whole audience broke out into applause at the end, which is a rarity.
"'Is that a hat or someone's uncovered head?' Ex said it was a head."
Are we not supposed to talk about Ogg's eyesight?
When I was in Taiwan one of my coworkers was a natural blonde, rosy-cheeked Brazilian of Polish-Jewish and German descent. Her temperament was Brazilian. Her Jewish mother was an atheist, but her German father converted to Judaism out of guilt. Something like that.
She would have stopped traffic even in the US, and there were few Caucasians of any kind in Taipei then. I could spot her on her scooter 3 blocks away, but think what the Chinese were thinking. Anime in the flesh.
You know, now that I think about it more, the correct Unfogged reference for me to make to sum up my feelings about Harry Potter would be to this post.
And I don't know why baa is asking about R.A.B., but now I'm curious too.
Perhaps R.A.B. is a character in the Harry Potter books?
Mitch, I think I've said much the same elsewhere on here, but I sorta get you. I've been assured #3 is good, but #2 was bad enough that I just haven't had the spirit to pick up #3 yet. The allure, though, is perhaps not so difficult: Rawling has concoted a world people want to live in.
No doubt ogged will be back at some point to convince us of the merits of the series, only he'll be using words in completely unfamiliar ways and the argument will fail to win adherents.
What makes the Potter books great is that they're so formidable. Imagine your favorite opera, without the music; that's Potter.
I don't have a favorite opera, anyway.
Harry Potter is a melodrama pantomimed by obese, self-regarding vocalists. Huh. Reminds me a little of being on crack.
That's not quite right, though. Andrea Bocelli is pretty trim.
As is Renée Fleming. Though I don't
like finishing my sentences in the same comment in which I begin them.
Harry Potter and the Aptly Named Danger , all of them, remind me of Star Wars . Great attention to detail, some genuinely unique world-creation, but in both fictional universes the dark matter is plot holes.
Are there more plot holes if I read further? If you say yes, I may never do so.
To 10: I think I almost completely don't get it.
I think the esteemed Dr. Holbo has a pretty convincing explanation.
I've read the first five and the bad writing and plot holes seriously grate on my nerves, but unfortunately if I'm to be able to slag them off properly, the price to be paid is reading the darn things.
Re 5: I am informed it might be the supposedly deceased brother of a character killed in a previous episode. Or not.
And, as for the rest of my weekend, economists evaluations of the impact of living wage ordinances my friends, those have a lot more plot holes than Harry Potter.
Much as I hate to say anything that might give our ben a big head, I have to acknowledge that his prescience in this thread is worthy of acknowledgement:
9No doubt ogged will be back at some point to convince us of the merits of the series, only he'll be using words in completely unfamiliar ways and the argument will fail to win adherents.
Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-17-05 05:47 PM
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What makes the Potter books great is that they're so formidable. Imagine your favorite opera, without the music; that's Potter.
Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07-17-05 05:53 PM
Also, I'm curious to know ogged's ex's opinion of why the Potter books are so popular.
I'd like to know too Mitch, but whenever she sees this post, she starts singing "The Ex met the Swede" to the tune of The Farmer in the Dell. It's like that sometimes.
Maybe this can be the post that finally brings her to comment.
Every time I read this post I think of that Hemingway story where the guy's too tall for his bed.
oh, I read that one. Some dude cuts his feet and head off, right?
oh, I read that one. Some dude cuts his feet and head off, right?
Procrustes? That story was written by Hemingway? I thought that name sounded too perfectly villainous to be a real Greek myth. I can't wait to tell the (Greek) fiancee!
Now if only it were discovered that it was actually the Albanians or the Turks built the Parthenon.
I'm embarrassed to admit I don't remember how it ended. There also may be more than one story with this feature. I'm thinking of the one made into a film three times, once by Tarkovsky, once with Burt Lancaster, and once with Ronald Reagan (this is the value of a Netflix education).
I'm not thinking of something that resembles a myth.
"The Ex met the Swede" to the tune of The Farmer in the Dell.
And the last verse goes:
Ogged stands alone,
Ogged stands alone,
Heigh-ho, the derry-o,
Ogged stands alone.
Shit. I should be careful in my taunting.
Oh! I know the movie, and therefore the story, you're talking about, despite never having seen any version! It ends with him getting killed.
And you're wrong, it does resemble a myth.
Now if only it were discovered that it was actually the Albanians or the Turks built the Parthenon.
It was the Macedonians.
It was the Macedonians.
While I was in Scotland I had the acquaintance of this Bulgarian woman who was wont to insist (primarily to her Greek acquaintances) that Alexander the Great was actually Bulgarian but that, as usual, the true glory of her nation was being suppressed.
Fine, it doesn't resemble that myth. I don't think the killing occurs in the original text version (which I'm reading on Amazon right now. I really need to find some better way to pass the time.)
If I have the movie/story apprehended correctly, it's called "The Killers".
Um, doesn't the Bulgarian ethnicity - at least by that name - date from about the 8th-9th century AD, if not later?
See, that's how they keep the truth down, eb.
Just finished the story. I guess Tarkovsky was pretty faithful to it; the other two versions add all kinds of stuff. In one of them a main character is referred to as "the Swede"; in the story he's just a "big Swede."
I'm sure everyone wanted to know that.
Is it online? I don't mean on amazon.
Re #25: When I read "The Ex met the Swede," nursery rhymes were the genre my mind skipped to as well.
So did they actually meet, or just view each other through a car window?
I couldn't find it at the online books page; I doubt it's old enough to be public domain and I couldn't find any illegal copy on google. That's how I ended up abusing the amazon search inside the book feature. It's pretty short.
Coupling audit: it still blows.
I just got a random piece of spam titled "Go wakeup in Swede riposte." Make of that what you will.
Waking up in a Swede seems like it must, somewhere, be a rich genre of amatuer fetish text pron.
I guess I'm the only one who thinks of American Pastoral. But then, ogged's Swede is not, so's we know, Jewish.
I hope the fact that nobody's nibbled on my Bocelli bait reflects poorly on my bait qua bait, and not poorly on yinz qua judges of musicianship.
My sole knowledge of Bocelli comes from The Sopranos.
Actually, I was pretty insulted you didn't hit that hanging curveball. I was trying to make you feel good.
I think you mean, "What's Opera, Doc?".
Bocelli was on The Sopranos?
#5: I think they're the initials of a pseudonymously named character we already know, rather than a new character.
also:
OH, MY GOD.
I think it's a little creepy that Ben chimes in with a story about the Swede getting killed. What'd she do to you, Ben?
Meiner, eb is the one who brought that story up.
Like you're not actually the same person posting from his mom's basement. Me too.
61: That was my theory, too.
But what about the possibility that, if Harry does what he says he is going to do, #7 might not be the last? I'm not sure that I'd keep going with them, but then again, I might be more hooked than I thought.
Oh, I think it will definitely be the last. She has said it will be many times, and she'll stick to it--otherwise it will look like she caved into pressure from the publisher to keep it going.
