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Thread: This must be parody: "Hogwarts School of Prayer and Miracles"
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Penny S
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I think that a parodist, from whatever side of the ocean, would have problems in adopting the style, which seems to me, more and more, what could be expected from a girl in the middle set of the three literacy groups we had in Y4 - 8s and 9s. Someone trying to use interesting words but with very little reading experience, and thus, a cloth ear. It will be interesting to see what comes from the creative writing class. I think something she said suggested she was home-schooled by her mother. Hmm.
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PaulBC
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Another over reaction. When iwas church librarian , 20 years ago I had an American colleaque who told me that in her church in the south she had to keep C.S. Lewis's "Narnia " books in the work room, people thought they might cause children to use their immagination s , oh and there is the magic element. Now eventually the complainiants moved on and the books came out
but honestly do we fear fiction that much ? What should one do when confronted by the "Left Behind" series ?
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Penny S
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Take quite a lot of shredding first...otherwise the worms might baulk at it.
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Sir Kevin
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What should one do when confronted by the "Left Behind" series ?
Barf? Lose your lunch?
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I missed the "should" emphasis, sorry. The first thing you should do is contact your district and ask for the name of a good exorcist....
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You do realize that the new Left Behind film (the one with Nicholas Cage) is starting to air tonight? If you hurry, you can still get tickets.
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Kelly Alves
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I was discussing that with Basso on FB yesterday. i wondered which Hollywood mogul he managed to piss off to get stuck with that gig.
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lilBuddha
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If you look through his filmography, you will see choices that do not make this one seem strange or coerced. As far as pressure, not hard to find reasons he would be less picky than in previous decades.
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Kelly Alves
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Thank you for enlightening me.
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The5thMary
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
I was discussing that with Basso on FB yesterday. i wondered which Hollywood mogul he managed to piss off to get stuck with that gig.
The other day there was a blurb about this on some entertainment website, I forgot which one. Anyway, it seems that Nicolas Cage has a brother who is a strong evangelical Christian and urged Nic to do play the part of handsome, rugged, manly Rayford Steele, the main man in this dreadful series and in the books. Nicolas thought this was a fine idea as he hadn't worked in a while and wanted to make his brother or brother-in-law or cousin or whoever the hell it was, happy. Also, Nicolas needed the money...
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The author seems to be giving more prominence to Dean Thomas than the original books.
Doesn't she know that he's black in the films!
Surely he should be carrying stuff for the white kids in her little make believe world, not speaking out of turn?
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Penny S
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She has done more. She has been getting her class teacher to comment. She is still scattering adverbs around with abandon, and still showing a surprising interest in men having very hairy chests.
Harry sneaks about Draco being rude to the girls instead of respecting them as sisters and future mothers, and regards D as being a sanctimonious fool, commenting "holily".
In the intro to the latest piece, the author claims not to hate Catholics, but wants them to come to the truth, and identifies the Pope as a Socialist who has no knowledge of the Bible or the Constitution. (I think she understands Socialist as equivalent to Satanist - and why she thinks the Pope should have any allegiance to the Constitution of the USA is a mystery.) (I've just looked at the unamended constitution, and can't see how it is relevant to either capitalism or socialism, just being the standing orders for running the state business. Or have I got it wrong?)
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ChastMastr
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and why she thinks the Pope should have any allegiance to the Constitution of the USA is a mystery
It's got to be a parody of a particular kind of ignorant Christian in the US, like Betty Bowers or the like.
Heck, it may be by Betty Bowers.
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Golden Key
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Ok, I finally read a little of it. Parody or not, it's some of the worst writing I've ever read.
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by The5thMary:
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
I was discussing that with Basso on FB yesterday. i wondered which Hollywood mogul he managed to piss off to get stuck with that gig.
The other day there was a blurb about this on some entertainment website, I forgot which one. Anyway, it seems that Nicolas Cage has a brother who is a strong evangelical Christian and urged Nic to do play the part of handsome, rugged, manly Rayford Steele, the main man in this dreadful series and in the books. Nicolas thought this was a fine idea as he hadn't worked in a while and wanted to make his brother or brother-in-law or cousin or whoever the hell it was, happy. Also, Nicolas needed the money...
Nic Cage is just a straight up weird dude. Think he is about to go Mystic Prophet on us?
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Penny S
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Ok, I finally read a little of it. Parody or not, it's some of the worst writing I've ever read.
Yup. And I've read Y4 not the top literacy group stuff. Actually, there were interesting features of that. Top group was grammatically good, showing all the features required for level 4. Unlike the current author. Lower group wasn't so good grammatically, but was much more imaginative. Unlike the current author. Somewhere, one hoped for an intersection where the technical skill came with the ability to invent, and it would occasionally surface - there was one very good spin off from Potter I recall, where the only bit of advice needed was that if a deus ex machina was going to arrive on the last page, it was a good idea to plant a hint as to its nature earlier on. This writing makes me remember there is another realm outside the Venn diagram circles.
A reference to home schooling suggests that the writer has not had the opportunity to read as much as she needs to understand the was narrativium works. Though, heaven knows, there were enough Victorian holy children's books that wouldn't have offended her family, while still using language and story structure well.
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Penny S
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I've just (I don't know why I persist) read chapter 12, and I realise there is a very serious error. The characters are giving commands to God, so that "prayer" works like magic. This even extends to changing Draco's religious allegiance from being to a somewhat strict and authoritarian, but not Catholic denomination into the sort the writer prefers. No allowance for freewill, then. So God is just hanging around waiting for orders. From the right people, of course. Not Draco.
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Originally posted by Penny S:
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
Ok, I finally read a little of it. Parody or not, it's some of the worst writing I've ever read.
Yup. And I've read Y4 not the top literacy group stuff. Actually, there were interesting features of that. Top group was grammatically good, showing all the features required for level 4.
Sadly, levels have been abolished.
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Penny S
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Originally posted by leo:
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Originally posted by Penny S:
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
Ok, I finally read a little of it. Parody or not, it's some of the worst writing I've ever read.
Yup. And I've read Y4 not the top literacy group stuff. Actually, there were interesting features of that. Top group was grammatically good, showing all the features required for level 4.
Sadly, levels have been abolished.
Oh dear. That joins things like the neighbours where I used to live felling trees and other stuff. NMP. Not my problem.
OTOH, What do they do instead?
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leo
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That's the problem, Michael Gove abolished them and put nothing in their place.
The new national Curriculum have attached 'attainment statements' - which is going back to what we did before levels and the didn't work back then.
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Penny S
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Twit. Send Scottish politicians back to Scotland, I feel. Scotland will know how to sort them out.
It was the very dickens sorting out levels, but at least they were there. The thing I didn't like about the literacy programme was the elimination of story and replacement with more factual writing. I know that favours boys, but organising narrative helps to organise other sorts of writing. And the other thing I did not like was the elimination of the opportunity to revise said writings and produce an improved version. It was all very well putting ideas for improvement at the end, but they might not apply to the next piece of writing.
(It became my aim to achieve level 4 in my own writing...)
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Firenze
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Having, by the looks of it, exhausted the options for the original subject (It's a parody/it's not a parody), we seemed to have moved off on to educational policy in the UK.
Feel free to start an appropriate thread.
Meanwhile, Expulso!
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Firenze
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Thread re-opened by request.
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Moo
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Have you all heard about this?
I'm looking forward to it.
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I don't want to give any spoilers, but the final chapter is now up. If you read through to the end, the author reveals in a very clever way that this is indeed a parody (excessive adverb use and all!).
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
Ok, I finally read a little of it. Parody or not, it's some of the worst writing I've ever read.
Didn't do E.L.James any harm. Just wait for the film version.
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Robert Armin
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Adam, what makes you think it is parody? To my mind the jury is still out: quote:
But even as the fornicating, drug-addicted Evolutionist disappeared into the distance, the righteous little ones continued to pray. They knew that, if they screamed loud enough, they could change the world.
There are people who could say that seriously!
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Voldemort's speeches in the final chapter about his reddit account seem to me a perfect pen sketch in photo negative of the real author.
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Penny S
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Well, that was a surprise.
I had given up in despair two paras into Chapter 13.
I am still puzzled about the chest hair stuff, which is clearly significant. Can she possibly be implying that the hairy staff are less evolved that the atheist Voldemort?
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