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AUGUST 5, 2003 at 9:16 PM
Posted by JAMES
Source: The Atlantic via The Leaky Cauldron
This current critique
is found, almost hidden, in an interview with The Atlantic in which Bloom is featured.
It never stopped. The damn piece was reprinted all over the world, in all languages. I will never hear the end of it. But of course, the Harry Potter series is rubbish. Like all rubbish, it will eventually be rubbed down. Time will obliterate it. What can one say?
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Head Boy
Points: 423
ApplebyArrows says:
Nobody cares about these people! Do they ever get tired of talking against Harry Potter? These people are boring me. Have they even read the books? Not like it will make a difference, because if the do, theey won't want to admit that they're wrong.
Posted Aug 6, 2003 at 12:28 PM EST
Metamorphmagus
Points: 37939
tonks black says:
Hey!! Harry Potter aint rubbish. That article is more rubbish than the books i bet.
Posted Aug 6, 2003 at 12:52 PM EST
Head Boy
Points: 405
Gandalf says:
I don't live in the US, so I don't know the work of this fellow.
But, here it go a hint for he: In Brazil HP books are still best sellers (OOTP was not released in Portuguese yet, but sold out all copies in English), and we never hear about this guy.
So, in my humble oppinion he is just jealous for the success of Ms. Rowling.
Posted Aug 6, 2003 at 2:31 PM EST
Professor
Points: 1124
mattie says:
Let's just realize if Harry Potter is rubbish, then we'r a whole nation likeing rubbish, kind of, right:)
Gandalf - I aint living in the US either..... So i don't know who he is either. Almost glad i don't know him....
Posted Aug 6, 2003 at 2:40 PM EST
Professor
Points: 1065
Lerah99 says:
I'm sure his love poem to the bard is FAR more interesting than Harry Potter. Let us all line up to read about his Hamlet obsession. (Yawn)
Don't get me wrong, I love the Bard. I just couldn't stomach any more of Bloom. (What do you expect from a guy who hates TS Elliot?)
In short, Long live Harry Potter
and
"Bloom Brontasaurus Bardolator" should be extinct like the rest of the dinosaurs. :o)
Posted Aug 6, 2003 at 9:15 PM EST
Head Girl
Points: 468
Charlie'sMum says:
I agree with the others who pointed out that most likely Bloom would have be among those who trashed that common playwriter called Shakespeare, had he lived in those days.
Both Rowling and Shakespeare borrowed from myths, legends and history to create characters and situations. (And Shakespeare has several plays that draw on the mystical and the occult, not just MSND - MacBeth is chock full of witches and ghosts and things) I love Shakespeare, in fact I'm fond of many writers who are considered 'classic literature' and the secret people like Bloom don't want others to know is that there is nothing really intellectual about them, really. Charles Dickens, Jane Austin, Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, George Eliot etc. didn't write so scholars would write boring tomes about their hidden meanings, they wrote exciting or interesting stories so people would buy their stuff and read them.
Posted Aug 7, 2003 at 8:21 AM EST
Auror
Points: 2251
Snufflesmom says:
This man sounds like a literary snob. I have read some of his reviews and like Abesette, I think he believes that if Shakespeare didn't write it, then it's rubbish. Of course, no one really knows who wrote Shakespear, so maybe it was an ancestor of JKR. (That's for Mr. Bloom)
He comes across from the interview as a complete "I am so much better and smarter that you are" type that I really don't take much stock in his opinion (he seems to think enought of it already)
Later Guys!
Posted Aug 7, 2003 at 8:47 AM EST
Witch
Points: 712
harryroxmysocks says:
Thats so stupid, I wish people would stop putting Harry Potter down when the books are making kids start reading again and they make other people (like me!)happy.
Posted Aug 7, 2003 at 5:05 PM EST
Auror
Points: 2303
padfoot5312 says:
I agree Siriusgurl maybe he needs to get mail and hate mail better than none.
Posted Aug 10, 2003 at 12:24 AM EST
Professor
Points: 1155
MissMaryPotter says:
Bloom is just upset because he hasn't any friends. Poor bloom. One must give hims something new to gripe about.
Posted Aug 25, 2003 at 11:34 AM EST
Wizard
Points: 603
Padfoot7 says:
Hee hee! He's bitter! It's just like that AK Byce or whatever her name was... that writer who called adult readers people with no imagination. She was a romance writer-- enough said. Why do these people say this stuff about Hp? Because they want attention!
Posted Aug 30, 2003 at 12:14 PM EST
Prefect
Points: 333
HarryPotterNutcase says:
Haha yeah right we'll see if Harry Potter ever "dies down"......wishful thinking man butttt...not gonna happen.
Posted Aug 30, 2003 at 12:39 PM EST
Mediwitch
Points: 2608
nickyole1 says:
Will people ever stop? Goodness, Harry Potter is not a bad book, and mostly every kid likes it, so why are all of these crazy adults trying to take it away?
Posted Jul 18, 2004 at 1:10 PM EST
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