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Originally Posted by hidari
I would say you and Harry are Way over reading into sepanok's comments. So he does not like the books. Why take it so personally?
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Because he didn't say "I don't like the books"; he said "the books are crap". No disrespect to you, but if you're not a native English-speaker, you may perhaps not appreciate the enormous difference between the meaning of those two statements. The first is expressing a personal preference - nobody would argue with that. The second is stating an absolute fact about the value of them, and that's insulting.