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by xtype (Deacon)
on Sep 05, 2003 at 17:16 UTC ( [id://289291]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to The sort of fiction you're most likely to find me reading:

Sir Walter Scott?
In particular, I enjoyed Ivanhoe (1819).

Although I have not read fiction for quite some time now.

I did skim one of the first couple Harry Potter books to see what the fuss was about, I was un-impressed. Also I think that the likes of Merlin and Gandalf would be offended by her confusion of the words 'Wizard' and 'Warlock'. I believe that the author of that book has mucked up the word 'wizard' for future generations. 'Wizard' shows no preference to gender, and a Wizard does not have to be a Witch nor a Warlock. They are witches and warlocks in her story. I hope that the translations to other languages corrected that major flaw.

-xtype

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Re: Scott
by Jonathan (Curate) on Sep 09, 2003 at 09:05 UTC
    I agree that Ivanhoe was good.
    But regarding Harry Potter, perhaps you could clean your glasses for another look. The constant themes of the stories are love, friendship and self-sacrifice, wonderfully told as JK is very good at hitting all the emotional pressure points.

    "Also I think that the likes of Merlin and Gandalf would be offended by her confusion of the words 'Wizard' and 'Warlock'" - oh give me a break.

    What themes run through LOTR? (Apart for a nasty little misogynist undercurrent).

    And now, as he looked and saw the whole Hellespont covered with the vessels of his fleet, and all the shore and every plain about Abydos as full as possible of men, Xerxes congratulated himself on his good fortune; but after a little while he wept...
    Asked why he was weeping he replied
    ..."There came upon me," replied he, "a sudden pity, when I thought of the shortness of man's life, and considered that of all this host, so numerous as it is, not one will be alive when a hundred years are gone by."
    The History of Herodotus By Herodotus Written about 440 B.C.

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