Posted on 07/21/2007 5:18:11 PM PDT by JenB
Seek, and ye shall find.
But your link doesn’t reveal anything less mature than comments about the books by people who haven’t read them.
Exactly! I too am a casual fan, never seen the movies, loved the books and enjoy the discussions, but not at the depth that many seem to enjoy. I have no informed opinion about existentialism, don't claim any credentials as a literary critic, and I haven't read any Lord of the Rings books. I therefore skim over about 30% of the posts on any Harry Poster thread. Your post really hits the mark.
No, there are plenty of people on this thread with whom I disagree to one degree or another... whereas you and ‘neoliberalnot’ are the only trolls I’ve observed.
Or it could be read one per year?? A seven year old would probably find Harry Potter a challenge... So it’s something that a parent and child could read together... Four or five pages before bed a night perhaps??
Actually... That was on the front page of the website in the comments section... I’d expect an author/ web creator in his/ her late teens/ early twenties to be able to coherently articulate his/ her opinions about a book. I think that the comments and web postings give a better taste of the average HP fan.
As for the books, I’ve read all of them (the last two the weekend they came out). I’ve always like HP and found the Half Blood Prince to be very moving; however, I thought that the last book didn’t live up to the former ones. The ending was ridiculous... Additionally, the plot meandered quite a bit and there was too little Hogwarts for my taste.. There were also parts I liked... The Forest Again had me in tears, and some of the darker chapters (i.e. the ones in the Ministry) were really blood boiling...
Oh yes, that's brilliant! ;-)
The politically correct term is “Thread Dementor.”
That's a post I can respect.
I don't agree with your thoughts on not enough Hogwart's, the ending being lame. I preferred OotP, and thought DH was a fine ending to the septology. But those are things that are minor matters of taste...
Sure he would. What if someone drank half of it and died or went insane. It'd refill back to the top for the next person. It would seem to be a practical precaution.
It's no 40 years wandering in the desert, but...
Yawn... trolling again?
Yeah, I would've liked to have seen more of her in the film version. Had I creative control, I would've rewritten the film to tell the story in a better way for the medium rather than following the book so closely. The story should've followed Ginny a little more so we could've seen what was happening to her. It wouldn't really have been giving much away -- most knew what was coming. And only the people who had read the book in advance noticed Lucius dropping the diary into Ginny's cauldron. (There wasn't even a flashback when Harry realized it.)
If I enjoyed a series (even as a kid), I don’t think I’d wait a year for the next installment if it was availalbe now. I don’t think seven-year-olds would have too much of a problem with the first book other than its length. It’s very big for a first or second grader. Second graders start reading more chapter books, but Sorceror’s stone is a pretty long book by that yardstick. On the other hand, in the first book, many of the chapters read like little mini-adventures on their own. That was the one thing that amused me about the story: what I thought was just going to be a series of misadventures in the school all tied together in one way or another at the end of the book. She got me.
Good point. I’d not thought it through as far as I’d thought. Thanks!
Actually, 1998. The book starts in 1997 but goes thru the entire school year.
Went into my local Walmart at 4pm on the 21st and they had plenty left right by the book section. I needed to buy some other stuff anyway. No problems.
My biggest peeve was that none of the Slytherins stepped up to fight Voldemort. C’mon, they’re not ALL supposed to be bad.
When did we get sent to the Backroom?
Dang... sorry if I contributed to that.
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