His last what?
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Harry Potter reference
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Speaking of Harry Potter, why didnāt they just get the army to snipe Voldemort then spawn camp him every time he tried to respawn? Good luck using your fancy magic shit against a .338 LM coming at you from half a mile out
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My daughter likes Harry Potter; congratulations, you all are not afraid to share with a forum on a bodybuilding site that you have the same taste in literature as a teenage girl.
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Thank you for this comment, I was afraid everyone had gone insane but me.
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āEvery book is a childrenās book if the kid can read.ā Mitch Hedberg
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Apparently they havenāt been able to fully steal the r/d yet.
The effectiveness of a Sinovac vaccine at preventing symptomatic infections was found to be as low as 50.4% by researchers in Brazil, near the 50% threshold at which health experts say a vaccine is useful. By comparison, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been found to be 97% effective.
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I may be giving my age away here, but I was a child when they were being published. All you old farts just aināt down with tha yoof.
Edit: for the record, Iām more of a Dumas fan, but I have read the Harry Potter series.
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I read Dumas when I was a child.
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Considering I was a teenage boy when I read them all, itās probably not too bad
Had you been my son, I would have worried. Then blamed my wife.
I think my parents were more worried about me reading Stalin biographies and history of the Cheka than Harry Potter
Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words: wait and hope.
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I was a college freshman when the first Harry Potter book was published. I still remember to this day mercilessly ridiculing one guy who brought the book to class for some reason. I genuinely believed that bespectacled wizards are for toddlers.
Likewise. Honestly, the Count of Monte Cristo was a bit too drawn out for me, but I loved the Three Musketeers.
Montefioreās The Court of The Red Tsar I presume? An excellent book.
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Yes, among others. Out of the following, I read probably about half while in high school, around the same time as reading HP. A few of my friends also read Twilight and John Green books without (much) judgment. Reading is fun.
Holy crap, I have all of these books except Sovietistan.
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I think my parents were worried too. Around 10 years old I had an absolute fascination with books on war and maps, still do. They must have thought I was planning future world domination or something.
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Unfortunately, English teachers are ruining literature because most of them donāt even like literature. Iāve seen English teachers assign books like Twilight and thought, āout of all of the books to choose from in the canon, you somehow decided that Twilight was a better choice.ā I know some are teaching that āpoemā from Amanda Gorman. It makes sense if you want to use it as an example of how not to write poetry. English majors today are not much better than sociology majors. In truth, in the US at least, there isnāt much difference in the subjects anyway. You can include all of the humanities in that and math and science are not far behind. As the older professors retire and/or die, it only gets worse. These days, the first question professors ask students after learning their names is, āand what pronouns do you go by?ā That is, unless the student volunteers that information first. Iām taking a class now, and the professor asked everyone to introduce themselves, state their pronouns, their major, etc. I refuse to divulge what is obvious.
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I read The Old Testament and got nightmares for months(maybe years IIRC).
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@dt79
The Chinese government admitted that sinovac is not very effective
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