Fact 1: it is fully legal to repeatedly kick the face in
of any adult you see reading a Harry Potter book on the London Underground. It is also legal to flamethrower queues of people dressed as wizards outside West End bookshops in the middle of the fucking night waiting for a midnight book launch.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 16:15, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

So true, you had to post it twice.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 16:18, Reply)

It gets truer with every posting.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 16:21, Reply)

I quite like it personally
it's a cliche but it did encourage people to read
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 16:23, Reply)

That's a very specious argument.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 16:25, Reply)

Why?
It was hardly the best written book in the world, but it was engaging and interesting.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 16:29, Reply)

It's the jump from that
to claiming that it encouraged people to read.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 16:32, Reply)

Can you have degrees of specious-ness?

(Cave Duck, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 16:34, Reply)

Yup, 'Psychology' is one.
ISN'T IT, CHOMPY?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 16:35, Reply)

THAT'S VERY WITTY
and the sort of thing a Scientologist would say.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 16:37, Reply)

Don't see why not.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 16:37, Reply)

I actually thoroughly approve of them.
They are at least British and nowhere near as lame as Twilight etc. Were I ten years old today, I'd love them. It's the surrounding hoo-ha that I despise.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 16:34, Reply)

^ this I agree with
people buying adult-cover edition. If you want to read a child's book, go for it but stop pretending a cover makes it different
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 16:38, Reply)

That was actually worth posting twice Boyce.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 16:24, Reply)