What, no Harry Potter posts?

[Boomtown Rat]

I finished the new book this afternoon (had to do something whilst I couldn't access the net). One or two surprises and not a bad little read. Now back to Enigma

Is that the one by Robert Harris?  Read his book Fatherland, I loved it, it might even be considered my favorite book.

[mpicco]

Seen the movies, read all about it in wiki, spells, names, locations, plot, everything, and still i see it as a children's book. For some reason im against fashions, and HP is fashionable nowadays.. so I dont read it... never liked it. I think its an OK idea for a book, or series of books, but i just feel the great creativity that JKR is credited with, just isnt there. I mean, what i can't stand, is all these "coincidences" in names mostly. Examples being: the professor for herbology is called Sprout... a guy named Sirius Black turns into a black dog, Sirius being a star in the Canis Major constelation, so basically he's "black dog". Family gone bad, called "malfoy"... Mal being evil in some latin languages. A "severe" teacher, named "Severus". The werewolf is called Lupin, Lupus being latin for Wolf. A girl called Luna turns out to have a dreamy personality, Luna meaning Moon...
Dont even get me started with the spells which apart from being poorly named, dont follow any kind of logic.

To me its just too many coincidences to make it realistic. Aaaaaaaand thats why i say HP is a badly executed idea.

[Mictheslik]

On the subject of Books, just finished Vulcan 607....cracking read (stayed up till 2 last night to get to the end )

.mic

[francsal]

...but she usually falls asleep pretty early on in them...... a bit like me with Formula 1

BLASPHEMY!!!!  ;D  ;D  ;D

Now,  somebody mentioned about the "wiki"resource... tell you the truth I wish I hadn