I-potter-ate

[pen_grunt]

I opened up my search history in my music downloading program/file sharing program *ehhem* to re-search artists to get new hits/songs (yeah, I know, bad girl...support musicians, buy CDs and all that jazz...). Anyway. Apparently damm_im_good had been searching for audio books before me. You have to understand, I tease him relentlessly about being "i-potter-ate" (versus illiterate) meaning that he is a Harry Potter NUTJOB. When I'm gone on a business trip, he reads Harry Potter (he's probably read the series 10 times through, at least). He'll finish the 6 book sequence and then start right back up again. He'll do this with the Harry Potter movies as well. If he reads a different book, and I ask him how he liked it, he'll usually respond with something like, "Well, it wasn't as good as Harry Potter," or "It was almost as good as Harry Potter." I'm not saying that Harry Potter isn't great. I like Harry Potter. I'm not saying that it isn't worth reading over and over, it is.... But here's the result of looking into my search history:

Half Blood Prince
Halfblood Prince
Potter
Harry Potter
Books
Kushiel
Audio Book

And that's it. He's friggin addicted. Ipotterate.

Oh, I forgot to do a weekend book update last weekend, and I got lotsa books. . . I also got a few more tonight whilst shopping with llythefaerye. We're doing the Thrift Store thing tomorrow, so there may be more, and I'll update a huge list later this weekend.

By the way, just so I can get more people into trouble (like I don't do enough of that already) Half Price Books (www.halfpricebooks.com) is having a 20% off everything sale through Sunday. Except if you live in Indiana. If you live in Indiana, pay full price suckah!

Comments

[irishsbuffy.livejournal.com]

We have all the movies... just watched the fourth one last night... I am the Potter geek in our house. I see I am in good company.

Buffy

[liquid-siftings.livejournal.com]

Just tell me he doesn't have any life-sized posters up in the house.

I'm with you; it's a good series, but c'mon, it's not high art. Personally, I think Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series is much better. But aside from that, it sounds like he might read something like The Unbearable Lightness of Being or Lolita and come out of it saying: "Eh, not as good as Potter". At which point I would have a hard time not hitting him upside the head with a mackerel, or maybe a large perch.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

He does redeem himself nicely--he did pick out the Hemingway books this weekend, and he does have a tendency to read more of the "sweeping classic novels" (i.e. Don Quixote, Three Musketeers, Crime and Punishment, etc.).

But hey, the only life-sized posters we have are vintage Wizard of Oz, Top Hat, Modern Times and the requisite girl-poster--Gone With the Wind.

I also agree on His Dark Materials, that and much "young adult" fiction is much underrated as "legitimate" reading material.