Harry Potter! YAY!

[MotherOfGizmo]

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LOL, maybe you should start with the second page.


j/k

[Piasabird]

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For the longest time I've thought of the Harry Potter series as being for children. I bought the first two for my step son. I'd never thought about reading them. Now since being on this board I've seen that a lot of adults like them. Maybe I will reconsider and check one out from the library someday.

[Squeaker]

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I like the LOR books and Harry Potter. It's funny the way people seem to either love or hate one or the other - my son or step son are the same. I suppose they've been a bit ,umped together because of the films coming out around the same time.
I thought "Prisoner" was the best as well and the last one the weakest of the lot.

[Lena May]

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I love both the books, even though, I personally haven't read the Two Towers and Return of the King. I did, in fact, actually read the whole Hobbit book, suprisingly. I liked it though, it was really good after you got past the first page, lol.

I think the Harry Potter books have become more adult themed as the years have progressed for them. They're no longer childrens books, even though children do read them. Man there is more and more heavier material in them each new book, it's amazing.

My favourite books are POA and GOF just because they are so well written. I love my Lupin and my evil Death Eaters. Heh heh. ^_^

[not2late]

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I like the way the books are maturing with the characters. It's similar to the way Lucy Maud Montgomery's writings changed as Anne grew up.

[Squeaker]

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God I loved the "Anne" books too - I must be areal kid still............

[Piasabird]

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God I loved the "Anne" books too - I must be areal kid still............

I've never read any of those books either. We just got back from visiting "Anne's Land" and it was absolutely beautiful! Now I want to read at least one of the "Anne of Green Gables" books!

[not2late]

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Because the Anne books mature with Anne, if you read them when you are a teen or younger, you'll look at them in a different way than if you read them when you are older (or closer to Anne's age in the particular book).

So I'm pretty sure the "kids" reading the HP books will get a different perspective of them if they re-read them when they are older (and have more life experience).

Squeaker, this is Mark Twain's reply to your comment about being a kid.

Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprizes they sometimes engaged in.

So go ahead and enjoy those "kid books", imo. If they help remind you of a simpler and pleasant time in your life, go for it because we all know the realities of the adult world and sometimes we need a little break.

[Squeaker]

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I like that Twain quote a lot - thankyou for that. Every time I pick up books from childhood I still have a mental image of sitting under the walnut tree in our garden when I was a kid. i had a far from idyllic childhood and used reading as a way of escape. I still do it now - I've always been an avid reader - but my "escape" these days tends to be from the t.v/sport obesessed family. It's funny I can read the same books over and over again and still find bit's I've missed.

[sidrah]

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I teach junior high Reading and I still have never read a HArry Potter book, nor have I seen the movies. Thankfully, the teacher who had them in 6th grade brought them all to the movie when it came out and had a Jeopardy show in class about it----I never touched it.

I have never even started a book, but they jsut don't seem all that interesting to me. I am not at all into Science fictiony stuff, so maybe that is why. I read 8 or 9 books a month, but cannot will myself to pick up a HArry Potter

[not2late]

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I understand Sidrah....the fairy-tale/fantasy genre isn't for everyone. As a kid I was really into folktales, mythology, fairy tales, and some paranormal stuff. So, the HP books, the Narnia series, Redwall series and things like that appeal to me still because they have elements of the stories I liked as a child.

Squeaker I have pleasant reading memories as a child too and I also used reading as a way to "escape". I remember reading several Jules Vernes novels while swinging in the hammock we had. I'm still an avid reader. I still go back to re-read those books I read as a kid because sometimes I feel I never really "read" them and sometimes I just want to see if my opinion of them has changed.

[Squeaker]

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I still go back to re-read those books I read as a kid because sometimes I feel I never really "read" them and sometimes I just want to see if my opinion of them has changed.

Some of them sadly don't stand the test of time. I was a huge Enid Blyton fan and I adored the "Famous Five". I bought them for my son about 8 years ago and re-read them. Oh, dear what a bunch of nasty, snooty, elitist little prigs those kids were. The books went straight to a charity shop.

[not2late]

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I picked up my book this morning at 9: 30 AM (I'm glad I didn't stay up for it---it was raining cats and dogs and according the staff at Borders it was a "mad house until 1:30AM" and the store "was completely trashed this morning")

Anyhow, I've read the first couple of chapters. Interesting developments.

So, who's up for a chapter by chapter discussion?

[Lena May]

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Lol. I definitly am. I just finished the book 5 minutes ago, my eyes welling up in tears. I've been crying for a really long time now, but I won't spoil the ending for you. <3

[Origam]

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Ok.. since I'm not going to get to read it for at least a week or two.. someone PM me and tell me who dies? The suspense is killing me.. and no it won't ruin the book for me.