honesty
This may seem like a hater post but it's really just what I think.
Harry Potter. Are you serious?
Me and my friend went to the Harry Potter Magic Midnight Party, whatever the hell . . and we laughed our asses off. Not at the cosplayers but at the actual people. Lenny turned to me and said, "It's got to suck to be a true fan of Harry Potter. You have so many people that pretend to like what you truly like." All I hear everyday is .. "Omfg..HARRY!" Let's be honest. Is it really that great of a book? I read about 10 pages and lost interest. Truth is, the only reason people are reading it is because everyone else is. "Harry Potter is the new pink!" It's so pathetic. Don't you have anything you like just all by yourself? Why is it people have to have all the creativity sucked out of them over something like a book? I've read books that made me cry, made me look deep inside myself .. and people are going all beserk about a guy who flies. There's no inner emotion really. The books that send emotions through the pages are the ones that should be worshipped .. not some guy trying to kill this other wizard. How realistic is that to your life? There's no inner message to it unless someone killed your parents. Then I guess the message is: get revenge. If you have to post on your livejournal or tell people how many pages you've read of that damn book you obviously are trying to impress other people [aka not a true fan]. A true fan wouldn't brag about how many songs he's listened to by some new great band or how many pages he's read on some book. Because he's passionate, he'd keep it to himself. He wouldn't brag because he has no reason to impress others. Why? Cause he's content with what he likes and doesn't care about what others think. Ahaha. I bet most of the Harry Potter fans have never really picked up a book before in their life or it has been a while since they have picked up a book [No, Harry Potter 1, 2, 3, or 4 doesn't count]. I really just don't understand why people have to be sell outs. I hate sell outs. People that don't really .. truly .. enjoy it but just follows the crowd like cows. Example:
Say .. your favorite book is "Huckleberry Finn". You love that book. It made you cry or it made you laugh. Whatever. Then they come out with a film and everyone is just crazy about it because of all the special effects, etc. Everyone overrates it and all you hear for weeks and weeks is, "OMFG. HUCKLEBERRY!" They've tainted and took out the fun from everyone who liked it from the beginning.
Another example:
A goth guy is madly in love with the band Metallica. It's his favorite band. He has posters everywhere. And one of Metallica's songs happens to come out on those tackey pop stations and all the preps come out singing it. "Omg..like..have u heard that new Metallica song?!" It's not as fresh as it was because it has a following. It's not COOL anymore. It's not UNIQUE. It's not your own personal style but it's EVERYONES. "Who's your favorite person in Metallica?" "I don't know. Like..I love their song though!"
Sell outs have been around forever. I can think of so much more examples but I figure two are enough to get my point across. No one took interest in Titanic until after the movie was made [All the Titanic books were checked out in the library AFTER the movie. They even had to make NEW books because they were in such high demand]. No one took interest in golf until after Tiger Woods came into play [Do you seriously know any other golfer?]. The only song people know by the Killers is, "Mr. Brightside" and "Somebody Told Me". No one digged Spiderman until the movie came out [As if people actually read the comics]. Harvard, Yale, and all the other Ivy Leagues teach the SAME THING .. why are they better than every other school? Want to know the truth? It's because they were the founding colleges in the world. You know what they taught when they were founded? They actually taught people how to become priests, nothing else. Things can be so overrated because so many people gawk over something new and the great things are truly underrated. Did you know that Van Gogh never sold a painting in his entire life? Now he's considered pure brilliance.
I hate not true fans that try to be true. It's tackey..it's lame. Same with LotR. It was never COOL. It was only cool when the movie came out, right? How many people REALLY READ the book before the movie and became hardcore fans? The guy that created the book has been dead a LONG LONG TIME and about 100 years later, people make a big fuss about it. No one has ever even spoke of the book. I didn't even know what the hell LotR was until the movie came out. Like your own things. You're sucking the flavour out of the things people are really passionate about. There's no reason to race to get finished with the damn book.
"ive readzz 1000 pgz of harry potterrRrz. hee-hee!" That's just great. I'm proud of you. Try to read 1000 pages of something else that no one cares about {fan fics, comic books, stephen king books, anne rice books [any other overrated author. particulary an author that has a book made into a movie], mangas, and menus do not count}.
[[I decided I had to know what happened in the end.. so I read the back of the book..oh..I read over four hundred pages]] [[Well. I read all 652 pages of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince in less than 12 hours.]] [[DO YOU REALIZE... IN ABOUT ONE HOUR AND 50 MINUTES, HBP WILL BE AVAILABLE IN MY TIME ZONE?!]] Just a couple of posts proving a point. To let you know, I don't care how many pages you've read. I really don't.