29th March 2004, 9:34 PM
There are a few Harry Potter books floating around here (yes, floating, magically, because it's FANTASY), so I may read one to check it out. I'm just afraid that a lot of fantasy books try TOO hard to be fantasy or deep and end up shallow as a result, you know, like a large number of Dungeons and Dragons games, which are so into themselves they make you laugh.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)