A Look Back was Re: 'Clue to his vulnerability' (Coming to a conclusion )

[fhmaneely]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "mooseming" <josturgess at e...> 
wrote:
> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Barry Arrowsmith" 
> <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> > --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Parker Brown Nesbit" 
> <pbnesbit at m...> wrote:
> > > Kathy wrote:
> snip  
> > > I'm wondering then, why read the books at all, if you don't 
like 
> them?
> > 
> > 
> > OK. I'll come clean, but you probably won't be impressed. More 
> likely 
> > images of lepers will spring to mind, an untouchable polluting 
the 
> well-
> > spring of pure fandom. Ah, well, such is life.
> 
> Nah I have a sneaking suspicion we agree!
> 
> >  
> > For sure it wasn't because I'm enamoured of tales of adolescents 
> waving 
> > bits of wood around. Nor was it an addiction to the fantasy genre 
> per se.
> > The fascinating aspect of HP was that it was a work in progress, 
> and a work
> > that looked detailed and complicated, that it was unfinished, 
thus 
> offering 
> > an opportunity to let my imagination off the leash. 
> 
> Yup, that's why I'm here. I would add that by and large JK is a 
very 
> generous author, by that I mean not as controlling as some. I like 
> many children's books because of this.
> 
> Of course she may not really be generous she may simply have plot 
> holes you can drive a bus through but that's an argument for 
another 
> rainy day.
> 
> If it were a finished work
> > then I'd not be here. I'd probably read the books once and then 
> leave them
> > on the shelf. 
> > Let's face it - great literature they ain't.
> 
> Perhaps not Booker stuff (and I have own problems with that) but 
> then again it is a great literary *event* and may change how people 
> read and write fiction....
> 
> > 
> > A reversion to childhood perhaps. Dunno about over the water but 
> years 
> > ago back here there was what was known as the 'Saturday morning 
> tanner 
> > rush'. The ABC cinema chain (maybe others as well) used to have 
> children's 
> > matinees on Saturday mornings - kids only, usually in the 7-10 
age 
> bracket,
> > no adults, sixpence (a tanner) to get in. The programme was a 
> couple of
> > cartoons and a load of old serials - and they were old even in 
the 
> early 50s
> > when I was a participating afficianado. 'Participating' is the 
> correct word,
> > 'cos  the place often became a seething mass of irrepressible 
> youth as
> > sword fights were re-enacted in the aisles, invasion by robots 
was 
> > re-interpreted on the balcony, the orchestra pit became a pirate 
> ship that
> > just had to be boarded and generalised mayhem erupted every
> > time Gene Autry unslung his guitar and sang something 'soppy' to 
> Dale
> > whatsername. 
> 
> sniping nostalgia bit (I was there)
> 
> those serials! They
> > keep us going until the following Saturday -  revising, 
> interpreting,
> > imagining where they would go next. So in the school playground 
it 
> was
> > "Pretend I'm Flash Gordon and you're a Clay Man disguised as the 
> wall of
> > the tunnel, and I've got this ray gun and...." 
> 
> Oh all right then but I want the leather boots AND the cape!
> 
> much snipage of very good stuff
> 
>  I imagine that
> > those fans getting twitchy about whether the up-coming resolution 
> will
> > meet expectations are those that would have stormed the ticket-
> office
> > back then if Ming the Merciless, plus minions, didn't eventually 
> get their 
> > retributive desserts.
> 
> Funny you should mention that but I just happen to have a cat named 
> Ming the Merciless!
> 
> > 
> > It's fair to say that I've never taken HP seriously and can't see 
> any reason
> > why I should. Nor has any emotional involvement ever marred my 
> musings
> > of what has/is/will happen. Others react differently. That's up 
to 
> them, I
> > won't try to force them to accept my viewpoint so long as they 
> don't try
> > to impose theirs on me. I'm not a great fan of interpretative 
> orthodoxy,
> > it's the differences between posted opinions that makes them 
> interesting,
> > not the conformities.
> > 
> > Meantime, I'll continue playing my imaginative games.
> > Sorry if they displease you, but you can always skip over the 
> Kneasy posts
> > if they get unbearable. It won't hurt my feelings, honest.
> > 
> > Kneasy
> 
> Wouldn't dream of it sweety.
> 
> Regards
> Jo

Ditto here as well. 
Fran
...going back to lurking..