I'm watching on TV at the moment

[Colin]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Someone tell me how it ends so I can turn it over.

[The Peepmaster]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Someone tell me how it ends so I can turn it over.

The hairy potter drops his unfired goblet on the floor, and has to get some more clay to make a new one. As plots go, it's not really the most exciting.

[Mince]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Someone tell me how it ends so I can turn it over.

It gets even more boring.

[Malc]

He makes a new clay goblet? Is that it?
I wonder how long it'll be before someone has the courage to say Harry Potter books are all shite?

[Diamond Lil]

Anyone else care to join me in announcing I haven't even read one of them

[Mince]

I have not ready any Harry Potter books and never will.

[Tom]

I've never read one either... I have seen bits of the movie though. (Is there more than one?)

[Roger Kettle]

Well, neither have I but it's pretty impressive that this woman has managed to get millions of kids worldwide to actually pick up a book. In an age of multi-channel T.V. and computer games, Rowling's success is as astonishing as it is praiseworthy. As most of you know, I have strong connections with Montana and, therefore, follow what goes on there. Hundreds of kids there queued up at midnight to grab the first copies of every new edition that appeared. Now, we're talking about a woman sitting in an Edinburgh cafe, coming up with an idea that kids in an American Western State will do anything to get their hands on and READ. She should be applauded.

[Colin]

Clap, clap.

I've never read any either.

[peter]

Well, neither have I but it's pretty impressive that this woman has managed to get millions of kids worldwide to actually pick up a book. In an age of multi-channel T.V. and computer games, Rowling's success is as astonishing as it is praiseworthy. As most of you know, I have strong connections with Montana and, therefore, follow what goes on there. Hundreds of kids there queued up at midnight to grab the first copies of every new edition that appeared. Now, we're talking about a woman sitting in an Edinburgh cafe, coming up with an idea that kids in an American Western State will do anything to get their hands on and READ. She should be applauded.

Bet you wished you had thought of it.
P.S.I have read the first four novels,just so I could talk to my grand daughter.

[Malc]

Agree with all that, the determination, the stoicism against the odds, etc. Rowling tried sixteen publishers before anyone took a punt on her, every one of them thought her tale of schoolboy wizards was somehow derivative, old-fashioned, too insular, the worldwide market wouldn't take to such a British concept, etc.

I don't begrudge J.K a single penny. She's revealed the publishing industry for what it is, a bunch of cretins, dragging the industry of literature into an increasing slough of celebrity projects and airport reading.I've never read a Harry Potter book, but I'm curious to know how long it will take for the literati to come out and say they're dreadfully written? I'm sure they are, especially the ones Rowling had to dash out ahead of a slavering public.

Or are they actually (by some miracle) the works of genius? I'd love to know. However, I don't have any intention of reading one. Life's too short.

The Harry Potter movies are utter garbage, badly directed, badly scripted, badly acted, the plots are all over the place and the things are carried by the sets and CGI.

We will look back on the movies in twenty years the way we presently look at the Superman series. I can't believe anyone bought that!

[Vulture]

I have not ready any Harry Potter books and never will.

Mince! That's what you get for eating Peter's sweeties.

[Colin]

I have not ready any Harry Potter books and never will.

Mince! That's what you get for eating Peter's sweeties.

He'll be checking everyone else's from top to toe from now on. he he

[Mince]

Well, neither have I but it's pretty impressive that this woman has managed to get millions of kids worldwide to actually pick up a book.

Has she? Or were all these millions reading already anyway?

[Malc]

Maybe, but they weren't queueing outside bookstores waiting for the latest release, like they did for Goblet Of Fire, or whatever.

Thing is, do we know that reading amongst that generation has increased generally as a result of Harry Potter? Or did it merely suck in the existing readers and now it's all over?

Not JK Rowling's problem, I know, she did her bit.