Need there be any reason other than entertainment?They surely entertain me!
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Need there be any reason other than entertainment?
'...A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.' --Dr. Mortimer, The Hound of the Baskervilles
Why do adults eat sweets?Originally Posted by Medea86
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
In my case: My daughter likes the series, and kept talking about them so I read them too.
I don't know, really. I'm certainly childish enough...and also very curious. Besides, I am always short on reading matter, and tend to read just about anything within reach
/Claes
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
I'm a big fan of childrens books. i find that sometimes a lot more thought is put in to them and therefore they can be more enjoyable.
As For Harry Potter... they are what i call ageless books. They are books written with children in mind but have contexts that an adult would understand where a child wouldn't.this means that as you get older you realise things in the books that you didnt notice before because you're now that little bit older and wiser.
Also the Harry Potter books come in both adult and children editions. The only difference is the cover so it is actually being sold to everybody no matter what age you are. They are not the only books that are sold this way. Philip Pulmans 'His dark materials' trilogy, and Trudi Canavans 'Black Magicians' triliogy were both also sold in adult and childrens editions. In the bookshops i supervise you would find them in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy section.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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The Harry Potter books are the only fantasy books I read. I prefer more serious stuff like Jane Austen, etc. But it's very entertaining and I love the world JK. Rowling has created. Some very colourful characters too. Especially Lucius Malfoy, Lupin and Snape. Sirius is also a favourite of mine. I've even roleplayed on a HP forum for a while. haha. I'm 20 though I hardly think of myself as an adult. I guess, in a way, Harry Potter makes me feel like a kid again.
I worked the night that Half blood Prince was released and most of the people outside the shop waiting for midnight were adults, and they were all airport staff members. only a few were looking for it for their kids, the rest wanted it for themselves. I was the first person in work to hold a copy of it in my hands. got real excited.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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yes it is
Most good childrens books are anything but "happy-clappy", so you can't escape from conflicts or evil by reading them any more than you escape by reading "serious" literature. Many of the problems are the same/ of the same kind but simplified a bit, only the setting is different.
What's your opinion Medea?
Adults read Harry Potter because they realize that the 'infantile escapism' it offers provides better bang for your buck than the unamusing intellectual masturbation inherent in certain other 'literary' works.
LOL. Fairytale regency romances vs. coming-of-age fiction incoporating themes like terrorism, loss and puberty (and a fairly realistic and relevent portrayal to boot); perhaps I just take the seriousness of the word serious rather seriously.The Harry Potter books are the only fantasy books I read. I prefer more serious stuff like Jane Austen, etc.
The books are well-written, the story is enjoyable and the world Rowling has created is just so neat (can't think of the word I want so I am going to have to settle for 'so neat') and I cannot wait until the last one comes out because I want to know who killed Dumbledore.
"...if you weren't smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, then what the eff did you think was going to happen?
I would like you to know that I use a very mature form of escapism that I have been working on for decades and intend to continue as long as I am able. I can only say that I have always preferred desert over the main course. What can I say? Vegetables suck.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. - Mark Twain
It is an addictive read and it is best when read after a really heavy book, for it is entertaining and light
Last edited by toni; 12-25-2006 at 04:59 AM.
Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions!
the whole boatload of sensitive!
— Allen Ginsberg, Howl II.
J.K. Rowling created a world. A whole new world. A complete new world that you would've thought it absolutely existed since Muggles started living; since Muggles discovered fire (to which the wizarding folks maybe used their wands instead); since there were good and evil.
I'm not sure why anyone would incoherently swear against the book that it would cause such ruckus in their minds as if the Queen of England was sentenced to prison. Harry Potter is just an ordinary boy who wants to live. Plots, ideas, twists, death and fluff - they all come to the book, just like how every other book is. Let's give Harry a chance. He needs us. Lord Voldemort never spared him, anyways.
"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's" - Dostoevksy
Oh, this is just saying if we like it? Where are the theory threads...?
I'm an avid Harry Potter reader. But because of the gap between the movies and books I must admit that my interest has somewhat faded, but I still love Harry. And compared to Eragon...that author just stole the best bits and pieces of other stories and threw them together...Eragon=Aragorn, urgals=orcs and so on. I read them, and found myself cracking up at the end of Eldest. Oh, and when he was proclaiming his love to whats-her-bucket, the elf. But this is Harry Potter. I love him.
*toddles off to find theory-discussing threads*
Oh, Christine. If only you could weep for me like that.
I did weep for you...once.
Out of pity, Christine. Not love. Still, it is only a question of time. In time you will grow to love me. I know it.
i have read Harry Potter and Eragon, Eldest and i think that Eragon was a better book and i dont think it copied lord of the rings it may have had similar enimies and his name sounds the same as aragon but it had alot of origionality such as the completely different style and concept of magic.
Overall, it was the book that inspired a sudden burst of reading when I was younger. So, the books are wonderful~! You should continue reading them. How far are you into the series now?
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
~ William Shakespeare
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