The loser is, His Dark Materials, by Phillip Pullman, which is better than either of these two series. Of these two, Harry Potter is clearly better. There, that saved some time.

OH MY GOD. I sort of want to drive across the pass just for that. I really, really hope those kids have parents that will videotape it and play it at their college graduation parties. Or at least put it on YouTube for those of us who can't be there.

Oh, and Harry Potter should win by default simply because none of the books or movies include the phrase "glorious, livid face."

I kind of want to go and watch the audience. I have a feeling it'll be hilarious.

None of the kids I knew who devoured third rate fantasy novels grew up and began reading decent literature. They still read that same crap. Go Team Read.

@1 Ding ding ding!

@1 Yes.

I'm not smart enough to read but, as movies go, twilight really sucked. My husband was mad at me for taking him without warning that it was "a chick flick"

Just yesterday he chided me about the DVD saying "at least that way I would have been spared the embarrassment of being seen at the movie"

@1

spot on

@1. Definitely.

Paul, are you ever going to read the Harry Potter books, or do I have to buy you the boxed set for Christmas?

@4:

I read my share of third rate fantasy literature as a kid (and some first-rate stuff as well, like LoTR) and ended up being an English major who reads plenty of quality literature, genre or otherwise. Yay, anecdata!

I'm not sure His Dark Materials is comparable, seeing as it is life-changingly brilliant literature (particularly as you're Catholic), whereas Twilight is some girl's Livejournal + vampires and Harry Potter is just really entertaining.

Snape rocks though.

His Dark Materials sounds like an episode of Lexx.

How about just get some fucking friends.

I'm dying to know - who won? I can't find it on the library's web page!

You can find out the winner right here:

http://blog.spl.org/yablog/2009/03/22/ha…