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another cheese moment
Jul. 19th, 2007 05:48 pmYou know, there are lots of things that people on my f-list enjoy that I just Do Not Get. Corsets. Disco. Children. Lost. The Cruxshadows. Dolls. (Seriously people, what is with the dolls?)
And I'm ok with that.
Harry Potter is one of those things. I tried to read one once, solely because everybody I know was going on about it and gave up a few chapters in. I mean, it was ok. It was a kid's book and a reasonably well-done kid's book, but I'm just not that much into the gentre. And I do get that some people really dig kid's books, I'm just not entirely sure why this particular kid's book appears to be so appealing to so many different people - even people who are not necessarily into kid's books the rest of the time.
But whatever. It's your thing, you dig it, you're having fun with it. More power to you. I admit that I am not all that interested in reading posts devoted to how one got/read book, what one thought before/after/while reading book and why said book is the best/worst/most mediocre book she ever wrote. But you know what? I'll live.
And what I am even MORE entirely disinterested in reading is other people on my f-list bitch about how everybody is posting about the book or making snotty complaints about how everybody is using new icons of characters from the movie of the book and otherwise whining that large numbers of people who are not themselves are having a big glowing group hug. Shut UP. We know you are too cool for school and that the pedestrian tastes of your friends are beneath you and that the OK Cupid Muppet test picked Oscar the Grouch as your archetype. We KNOW. We just don't care.
But what I really, really, really, really don't get with extra not-gettingness?
People who are not only posting spoilers to communities, but to the individual LJs of anybody who lists the Potter books as an interest. I mean, WTF? Is it even possible to be more small-minded and banal?
And yes I know there are more important and weighty matters out there for me to post about, but my brain is currently 70% snot and rising so this is what you get.
And I'm ok with that.
Harry Potter is one of those things. I tried to read one once, solely because everybody I know was going on about it and gave up a few chapters in. I mean, it was ok. It was a kid's book and a reasonably well-done kid's book, but I'm just not that much into the gentre. And I do get that some people really dig kid's books, I'm just not entirely sure why this particular kid's book appears to be so appealing to so many different people - even people who are not necessarily into kid's books the rest of the time.
But whatever. It's your thing, you dig it, you're having fun with it. More power to you. I admit that I am not all that interested in reading posts devoted to how one got/read book, what one thought before/after/while reading book and why said book is the best/worst/most mediocre book she ever wrote. But you know what? I'll live.
And what I am even MORE entirely disinterested in reading is other people on my f-list bitch about how everybody is posting about the book or making snotty complaints about how everybody is using new icons of characters from the movie of the book and otherwise whining that large numbers of people who are not themselves are having a big glowing group hug. Shut UP. We know you are too cool for school and that the pedestrian tastes of your friends are beneath you and that the OK Cupid Muppet test picked Oscar the Grouch as your archetype. We KNOW. We just don't care.
But what I really, really, really, really don't get with extra not-gettingness?
People who are not only posting spoilers to communities, but to the individual LJs of anybody who lists the Potter books as an interest. I mean, WTF? Is it even possible to be more small-minded and banal?
And yes I know there are more important and weighty matters out there for me to post about, but my brain is currently 70% snot and rising so this is what you get.