Reading update
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tenoko1I mentioned this a little while back, but I'm currently reading the first Harry Potter book, since I've never read them before. This is a big deal, because I swore I would never read them, pay money for them etc. I ended up having to pay a dollar and I now have the first three books. Lost a lot of my pride that day.
Hey, I can't pass up a deal. Well, i figured the writing would get better as the books progress anyway since she had no training or anything to start with. I still cringe at the sight of those books on my shelf though. I'd never read these book before and i hated them because of all the hype, the types of people I ran into that were always fans (very annoying nerdy types), etc., etc. I mean, c'mon, how do you get so burnt out on something when you've never invested any of your time in it?
Because everywhere you look it's being thrown in your face. Heck, I love Twilight, but I'm sick of hearing about it and seeing it everywhere. Breaking Dawn was terrible, btw, just wanna throw that in there.
So I'm reading Sorceror's Stone, haven't really been able to make much headway. I've had the book like two weeks and I'm not done with it yet. Only because I haven't had the time to sit down and read. I got to for about an hour yesterday, and then the past two day I've gone to sit in my car at lunch and read for thirty minutes. A few minutes here and there, but other than that? I've just been busy.
Yeah, but the point IS! Shonen-ai will rot your brain people. Srsly. It will ruin your mind forever. Taint anything you lay your hands to. It will, because these kids in this books are eleven years old, there are no romantic angles at all and yet the voice in my head is pairing up that Malfoy character with Harry Potter. The blond kid that's snotty and obsessively picks on him, a little rich kid. Yeah. He's so cute and awkward. ^_^ Ugh. Headdesk. Shonen-ai has ruined me.
Hey, I can't pass up a deal. Well, i figured the writing would get better as the books progress anyway since she had no training or anything to start with. I still cringe at the sight of those books on my shelf though. I'd never read these book before and i hated them because of all the hype, the types of people I ran into that were always fans (very annoying nerdy types), etc., etc. I mean, c'mon, how do you get so burnt out on something when you've never invested any of your time in it?
Because everywhere you look it's being thrown in your face. Heck, I love Twilight, but I'm sick of hearing about it and seeing it everywhere. Breaking Dawn was terrible, btw, just wanna throw that in there.
So I'm reading Sorceror's Stone, haven't really been able to make much headway. I've had the book like two weeks and I'm not done with it yet. Only because I haven't had the time to sit down and read. I got to for about an hour yesterday, and then the past two day I've gone to sit in my car at lunch and read for thirty minutes. A few minutes here and there, but other than that? I've just been busy.
Yeah, but the point IS! Shonen-ai will rot your brain people. Srsly. It will ruin your mind forever. Taint anything you lay your hands to. It will, because these kids in this books are eleven years old, there are no romantic angles at all and yet the voice in my head is pairing up that Malfoy character with Harry Potter. The blond kid that's snotty and obsessively picks on him, a little rich kid. Yeah. He's so cute and awkward. ^_^ Ugh. Headdesk. Shonen-ai has ruined me.
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Date: 2010-04-14 08:03 pm (UTC)Is a Harry Potter NerdI love HP, myself XD I re-read them far more often than is really necessary. The first 3 are my least favourites, personally. Not that I think they're bad, just that...I like a darker story, and the tone does get darker the further you read ^^; Plus, I find when they're young, they're a bit boring as opposed to when they're older ^^;
Haha, I love Twilight too, but yeah, I agree, Breaking Dawn was awful :| One of those books that should never have been published. Gaah, it drives me insane just to think about it >_<
Hehehe, Malfoy/Harry is one of my favourite pairings ♥ Really, I see more shounen-ai in there than anything else, but maybe it's the taint? I mean, yeah, I see shounen-ai everywhere I go, haha. I don't really like any of the main canon pairings, and only a few of the side pairings XD Otherwise, it's all shounen-ai or various misc. pairings that I think are more awesome XP
And that's where fanfics come in 8D For all your shounen-ai/non-canon needs~ Good luck reading them though ^^ I hope you enjoy them enough to read them without too much trouble :)
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Date: 2010-04-15 01:35 am (UTC)Prisoner of Azkaban is my favorite, and the seventh book is a very close second.
I feel like a lot of the hype around Harry Potter has caused people to not want to read it, and I want to say there's a REASON it has so many fans... but these days, a lot of terrible things have tons of fans. But Harry Potter is one of the things that I feel deserves the fans.
Harry/Draco is not one of my favorite pairings, though it is fun to read fanfic for. I'm surprised, actually, that I didn't like H/D that much, considering how much I love rivalry pairings. I think the reason, though, is because I started so very young, before I knew what yaoi/shounen-ai was. I like a lot of het pairings in those books, especially ones that get hinted at quite a bit in canon.
It makes me so happy to hear new people reading the books, and I really hope you enjoy them :)
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Date: 2010-04-15 02:27 pm (UTC)Are you making fun of Twilight?
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Date: 2010-04-15 02:43 pm (UTC)