Am I the only one?

[gurdymonkey]

01. Discuss how you got into Harry Potter and why you still love it.

I didn't "get into" Harry Potter and there are far more loveable things out there to my mind.

My initial encounter was on my first visit to California to see Rich and decide whether it made sense for me to move out here. I was thrust amidst a group of alleged adults who donned crappy plastic glasses, fake lightning scar tattoos, HP tee shirts and wands to attend the first run of the first HP movie. It was cute. I liked it enough to eventually borrow a copy of the book from Rich and read it.  Having started reading at high school reading levels around the age HP is geared to, I thought, "OK, it's a decent kids' book." I stopped at the third book because it was just more-of-same. If the movies come on cable, I check them out because they do have occasional flashes of fun amid the slog through Way Too Much Narrative Filler, and I did think "Half Blood Prince" takes it to the next level. 

 

Is it OK if I reserve "love" for Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin series instead?

Comments

[pooklaroux.livejournal.com]

I read the entire series because so many people around me seemed to love it passionately. I thought each book in the series was worse than the one previous to it. Every book seemed to cry out for more editing. They were needlessly long. (And I love long books, but these books were long for the sake of being long and not because the story needed it to be that way.) I actually like the movies better than the books -- because the screenplays are succinct and get to the heart of the story. I also enjoy some of the HP fanfic. I read the Twilight series because again, friends were enthralled by it. Truly I would read ten more Hp books before reading another Twilight book. But book love? Oh no, that I reserve for the works of Ursula Le Guin and Charles De Lint.

[kass-rants.livejournal.com]

Brava!

I don't love Harry Potter. I like it fine enough. But I still haven't read the last book. And I've never dressed up for a movie. It's fun. But it ain't Wodehouse. =)

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

HP is decent kiddie lit. Not great, but a quick, reasonably engaging read. What I like best about it is that it got so many kids reading.

[reynardine.livejournal.com]

I like Harry Potter. The books are much better than the films, which sometimes don't make sense because they leave out so many subplots that tie into important things later.

It is a wonderful children's series and my only wish is that they had been written when I was still a kid. Which is impossible since the author is only a couple of years older than me. ;-D