Don’t Know Much About …
Now, here is a list of things I’ve never heard of: Pearls Before Swine (except as in “do not cast …”), Neil Gaiman, and Y La Piedra Filosofal. If there are any other things I’ve never heard of, well, I’ve never heard of them.
Pearls Before Swine is a comic strip? I can’t imagine reading a whole book full of comic strips.
Well, I looked up Neil Gaiman and found he is quite prolific. I came across this picture:
… obviously a Harry Potter rip-off. So, I googled +Gaiman +Rowling (3,070,000 hits) and found that I’m not the first person to notice the similarities. However, The Books of Magic were published in 1990/1991, six or seven years before the first Harry Potter book was published, so it seems Rowling may have been inspired/influenced by Gaiman.
HP y la Piedra Filosofal, o en inglés estadounidense: HP and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Wow. I had to have a Spanish:English dictionary at my side and consult daily with my friend from Argentina just to get through All the Pretty Horses, which was only about 5% Spanish. I guess reading a few comic strips is OK after trying to decipher Piedra Filosofal.