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Bruce Toback <[log in to unmask]> writes:
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> But try as I might, curmudgeon that I am, I can't find anything else to
> rant about in all this frenzy. It's a frenzy over a *book*, for a change,
> not a movie or a toy or a new dot.com IPO. Millions of kids in the
> English-speaking world want to be the first to -- read a book? A 720-page
> book?! A complex, non-saccharine, non-marketing-tie-in, non-dumbed-down,
> thought-provoking book? By an author who started out writing just for the
> fun of it, and to keep her 12-year-old amused? I really want to find
> something bad in all of this, but somehow it all seems like good news.
> Damn.
You just didn't try hard enough, Bruce. The other night on Fox News I saw
some guy who was totally against the Harry Potter books. Something about
wizards and witchcraft and wicca-type stuff. Actually, I think what he was
against was some public school teacher reading these books to his kid in
school. Because witchcraft is a recognized religion, he thought this was
just as bad as a public school teacher reading the Bible to his kid in
school.
Jim Phillips Manager of Information Systems
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