Howcome it's called Sorcerer's Stone over there? Here it's Philosopher's Stone. (edit: nevermind, on wiki it says that only in America they named it Sorcerer's Stone ) I finished Dreamcatcher, which was too cool. I had such a hard time getting into it, but the last 400 pages went incredibly fast. I started the Harry Potter series again.
It's because American's thought they knew better than the best fictional writer to ever exist (which is obviously up for argument). I think the idea was orginally the American editors but then J.K. came up with 'sorcerers' as an alternative. In my opinion, it's ridiculous that Scholastic changed title of a book because "grade-schoolers won't buy a book with 'philosopher' in the title", money hungry cunts just wanted to sell more book copies.
Exactly. They used the excuse of "this title makes more sense" even though it actually makes less sense.
Re-reading The Sorcerer's Stone. I only thought it was renamed because kids wouldn't understand what the fuck a philosopher was. I know I didn't when I first read the book. XD
Barack Obama - The Audacity of Hope, a book on Marilyn Monroe and a History's Greatest Mysteries book on and off. It changes day by day.
Requiem for a dream By Hubert Selby Jr., A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, and Re-reading The Catcher in the Rye for a term paper. Lastly, I Am America (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert....lol. Busy reading this semester.
For the record I started reading the Harry Potter series when I lived in Germany so I started on Philosophers and even at that age, when I moved back to the US I was like, what the hell. Why change that? I Just started reading 1984
Okay i stopped 1984 because I bought The Da Vinci Code (reading the shit out of, havent seen movie) And Twilight.
I have a feeling you're going to like The Da Vinci Code. It's one of my favorite books to date. And I'm back to reading A Midsummer Night's Dream. Got to for my class.
I'm rereading Darkly Dreaming Dexter, slowly. Why slowly? Because I'm mainly reading House of Leaves. This book is fucking AMAZING. I've never read a better book. It's also very, very odd. It's definitely worth the $20 I got it for. I would recommend either book. =P