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Eleonora

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  1. I read 100 Years of Solitude when I was 16, for my spanish class. I immediately fell in love with that book and Marquez style. I read some of his other works, and I really appreciated them, but 100 Years has a special place in my heart and will always have. When I want to hide from reality, Macondo is always there to welcome my mind.

  2. My dreams are very vivid too, like Chaliepud's.. but mine are not so funny. I've always had nightmeres since I was a child, and some are really terrifing. I used to be really scared when I was younger, I even had some period of my life in which I refuse to go to sleep. But then I started to take inspiration in those bad oniric experiences: I started writing horror short stories inspired from my dreams :)

    It works.. but lately insomnia doesn't live much room for dreams :(

    Never had a nightmere as scary as the one hinted by Raven though :D :D

  3. Vimes, it all started because somehow through the lines the point was: "The ones that read HP are just sheep led by marketing, unable to see how stupid and bad written the book is". Let me say it is upsetting being attacked in this harsh way. No one here has to change his mind, it's not fair and it never came up to my mind something like that. You have the right to decide what to read and why and the right to criticise what you don't like. If reading Harry Potter is silly, if loving the story means to be less clever then the ones who didn't like it, I must admit I am silly and less clever than other people.

  4. This goes both ways! Why is it that I am being mean and unreasonable for saying in a calm and logical way why I don't like HP when you and those how do like it are the injured party and get away with jumping on us for saying we don't like HP and that our opinions sent worth **** because we don't have a 20 page essay on why we don't and when we do find links to those who do (many are respected people in the book industry) we are accused of saying that you are stupid and that we need to change our attitude? Why is your option better than mine just because I haven't studied every page? I think you say a lot about respecting others rights to like or dislike something but are bad at practising it here. And this is not pointed at you personaly but to all of you who have been prejudiced against those of us how have not agreed that HP is the best thing since ever.

     

    And I thought this was a thread about discussing IF IF HP is good or not, this means there has to be people how don't this that they are good participating in the thread or it is just another group of HP fans talking about the books.

    I wasn't refering to you, it was an impersonal YOU, not you in particular. I think you have the absolute right to say you don't like a book, obviously.

  5. Vimes, your point of view is highly respectable. The whole point is: everyone has his own tastes and everyone should be free to find or find not his own "something" in a story without being attaked or insulted. That's all. You dont' have to read a whole book if you don't like the way it's written or something, but it's not fair to judge in a bad way people who enjoyed that book. As I told you, I accept that you didn't like Harry Potter, but why can't you accept that I enjoyed it and not because it was a best-seller and not because of the marketing behind and not because people around me liked it too? For every single thing in the world I think everyone has the right to like or dislike it without being judged.

  6. I finished a 988 pages book with ALL Edgar Alla Poe's works! Every poem, every novel .. there are some pictures too, mainly Caspar David Friedrich's wonderful paintings. I'm highly satisfied! ;)

     

    Then I started The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides and The Secret Life of Bees, S.M. Kidd.  So far, so good, both of them. But there's a huge volume of american literature waiting for me in my library, it arrived yesterday, but I couldn't go to pick it up .. Faulkner, Steinbeck, the beat generation.. oh, I wish it was monday. Never thought I'd say something like this. :blush2:

  7. I think that you should refrain from making statements like 'you can't understand' - you have no idea beyond the opinion I have stated here as to what I can and can't understand.

    I'm sorry but I can't refrain: you are not in their mind so you can't understand what's inspiration for other people or what is junk for other people. You can accept, as I do, but you can't fully understand because you come from a different path and you've seen different things. So you can't understand as I don't understand most of the things other people do or think. I accept. For instance, I don't know why you value your opinion so much, what makes you so sure of what you say. I can't understand it, but I accept it and I accept your point of view even if I don't understand it.

  8. So there you are: I know dozen of ex-children whose imagination was highly stimulated by Harry Potter. One became a published writer of children books. One of my ex teenagers writes and draws fantasy comics, and so on. If they all were son influenced by a book and they still read many other different books now they are grown up, it means Harry Potter is not junk for them. And that's the only thing that matters to me: they read a lot, they use thei imagination. Maybe they saw in that story something you didn't and that's why you can't understand.

  9. I don't think we can talk of  "badly writing" in a series like HP, because the style evolves with the maturity of the character himself. I mean, in the first book Harry is an 11 years old boy, but he's 17 at the end of the serie. And the style in writing slightly changes as he grows up. What is more, if it was only a bluff I reckon the popularity was meant to decrease through years: The Fifty Shade is now completely ignored now, in spite of the marketing behind the book. But young boys and girls still read and love Harry Potter, they have some paragraph on their school books (with dozens of estracts from other books) but they look for Harry when they go to the library. Why? Because Harry speaks like them, thinks like them, has the same reactions they have in sinilar situations. Harry Potter is somehow real to them. Harry takes the wrong decision sometimes and then he pays his faults. Children don't want to be taught through literature, they want to be heard. And Harry still speaks for them. I'm surely wrong, but I don't take decision or make opinions on a glimpse of a thing. I usually give everything a chance before deciding the quality of everything.

  10. Sorry if I add something, I'm not sure if I'm allowed to here or in another section of the forum. So I must say I'm sorry if I'm doing something wrong. I just wanted to add that I read Harry Potter and enjoyed the books. I take them with me every time I go to the hospital because I need something to cheer me up among all that pain. In Italy the marketing was absolutely meaningful. Only something for the movie but starting from the Order of The Phoenix, nothing for the other four movie. I found a copy of the first book in a library when I was babysitting a dislessic 8 years old treasure. He chose the book .. well no, the end of his "choosing a book"song happened when he had his finger on the back of The Philosopher Stone. We read it together and we both liked it. It was even difficult to find the other books. And usally I'm not a sheep: I don't even wear labels or use chimical products as I home-make everything I use. If HP is just a marketing product read by people hit by a massive advertise, why did I read it if no advertisment was made here for the books? Once again, I'm so sorry if this post is in the wrong place. I didn't find another discussion on the topic. And I'm sorry if I got the whole thing wrong: I'm not native english. Feel free to delete this post if necessary.

  11. Could I suggest some titles? For instance:

    Spain: Blood Wedding, Federico Garcia Lorca. It's a play, not a novel but it does a great portrait on the spanish rural life of the early '900. I loved it.

    Ireland: Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt or Paddy Clarke ha ha ha!, Roddy Doyle. Both novels, both face the tragedy of life with a sarcastic view.

     

    Well, they're just ideas. I can't wait to see where your challenge will take you.

  12. This morning I finished the biography of Nelson Mandela, very interesting!! And I'm halfway through Hugh Howey's Wool .. I'm not too sure how I feel about this: it's well written, but it seems like I already read the plot somewhere else. I'm waiting for a surprising "something".. :blush2:

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