Comments on: I really don't like Harry Potter

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:23:10 +0000

Observation : Harry Potter made the world buy books again.

Result : there are millions of unread Harry Potter books all over the western world.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:24:42 +0000

This is odd, I was trying to comment on another post that disappeared. You should find a way to put back the line about “I was a sweet girl but not a good one.”

I’m a Potter Agnostic.

By: TonyG

TonyG — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:52:58 +0000

I’ll forever wonder if she ended the series on her own, or simply because the kid who plays Harry in the movies is like 25 now

By: 1138

1138 — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:26:44 +0000

I won’t say I like it or don’t like it because I have no opinion of it one way or the other – it’s a children’s book and I’m not a child.
Let’s let it belong to the audience it was intended for and keep our supposedly adult nodes out of it.

By: Donald Douglas

Donald Douglas — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:10:19 +0000

I care about basic human interactions! I’m reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and I just finished Atlas Shrugged.

My kid’s reading the Deathly Hallows – which I think is great! He reads a lot of different things, and he’s learning.

As for the internet, if we can count faceless engagement as meaningful, then people can have fulfillment. Online communication cannot take the place of social and family ties, but at least we read about the lives and interests of others, like Courting Destiny’s Pia!

By: Pisces Iscariot

Pisces Iscariot — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:54:58 +0000

What I dispise about the HP than is
a. they reinforce all of the old class stereotypes
b. they are a product of Word grammar check
Ultimately there is very creativity involved, there is no stretching of he imagination.

By: sir jorge

sir jorge — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:03:03 +0000

I never liked the series. I took a class in college that made it required reading, and I hated every minute of having to read through that book.

There is so much better literature out there, and yet this is the top seller.

Nice to see that people are reading again, but if that means they are reading trash instead of say…Noam Chomsky or something more important, it’s all for nothing.

By: cooper

cooper — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:31:09 +0000

I haven’t read the last few Harry Potter books. Not enchanted with them. May read the last. I already googled the ending.

No schedule…ah…those were the days.

By: Bone

Bone — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:14:52 +0000

I’ve never read any of the HP books, nor had any desire to.

Rowlings story is inspiring though, especially in this day and time, knowing that something like that can happen for a writer.

By: Damien

Damien — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:41:14 +0000

Rowlings is dull and boring and contrived. HOWEVER, she has sold so many books because:

1) She had a vision to write about

and

2) She made the time to go into her “other world” and bring it back to us in words.

You gotta respect that. I know I can’t do that with 2 screaming kids under 5 and a 9 year old (and a full time teacing job and and and . . .)