Sunday, July 22, 2007

I have a confession

I've never read a Harry Potter book.

I have another confession -

I don't feel that my life is lacking because of this.

I've seen a couple of the movies and they were fine, and I'm sure they're perfectly charming books written by a perfectly charming woman, but the whole phenomenon doesn't appeal to me at all.

I think most of what turns me off to it is the fans - the freaks who dress up for theme parties and write Harry Potter fan-fiction and center their lives around the release dates. The freaks who camp out at book stores so they can be the first in line to buy the book at midnight - that's one thing I really don't get - if someone disrupts their life to buy a book the day it comes out, they're getting the same book they would have if they bought it the next day... or the next week... or ever the next year - you don't get any extra points in heaven, you don't even get uber-geek superfan points because two days from now, no one is going to even remember who bought the book at midnight and who didn't.

Harry Potter fans are like those "Titanic" fangirls who were always cooing about how romantic Leonardo DiCaprio was and how "awesome" that Celine Dion song was, or like those Star Trek weirdos who wear Spock ears in public and go to conventions.

Maybe I'm missing out, but... I think I'd rather miss out than be lumped in with those people.