02-26-2012, 11:06 AM | #76 |
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I loved the HP books, and I don't believe everyone else needs to. But I often hear people say they read the first 2 or 3 and then got bored. I can understand that because the first 3 books were kids books.
However, imo, someone who stoppped at book 3 doesn't have a complete picture of the series. It began to morph in book 4, and by book 5, which was quite dark, the series was a completely new animal. I think that contributes to the "I loved them" vs "I disliked them" debate, because they are comparing apples to oranges. |
02-26-2012, 11:37 AM | #77 |
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Well if you don't want kids books, you shouldn't read Harry Potter at all, because that's what it is, even including the seventh book. All things considered, it's still set in a school, and not everybody dies. If you find it boring by then you can just as well move on.
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02-26-2012, 11:43 AM | #78 |
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I, for one, never give a series entire book's worth of time for me to warm up to the content. No author gets that sort of grace period from this reader.
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02-26-2012, 01:51 PM | #79 |
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I liked the first two books, but book tree is the point where I really got hocked with Harry Potter.
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02-26-2012, 02:47 PM | #81 | |
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This of course is the fallacy of the internet: Denizens mistake popular consensus for lasting critical judgment, which the centuries have shown is unlikely in rather ironic ways. That presumption also pimps conformity in the most literal-minded sense: "Your assessment is invalid because a lot of other people like the film." (Translation: the person telling you this and possibly their friends liked the film.) Very often, breakthroughs critical and otherwise happen when someone ignores the common consensus and looks at some habit of thought mistaken for truth in a different way. It would be a boring world if everyone liked the same things, let alone for the same reasons. Some of my favorite critics are the ones who argue compellingly for tastes and positions that are the opposite of my own. But even a compelling populist argument can't consist of regurgitated ad populum. Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 02-26-2012 at 04:52 PM. |
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02-26-2012, 05:11 PM | #83 |
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02-26-2012, 09:09 PM | #84 |
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I don't know why there are so many complaints about the HP books not out as ebooks. Yes, they are out there and in great condition. The fact that JK Rowling doesn't make any money off of them is entirely from her lack of trying to put our her own copies.
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02-26-2012, 10:11 PM | #85 |
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Unless she's going to be writing about a topic that interests me, it won't matter to me if she writes a non-Harry Potter book - same as any other author.
I'm sure her first non-children's book will sell tremendously, because all of those first Potterettes have grown up and will buy the book out of loyalty. |
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02-27-2012, 10:33 AM | #87 |
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Yeah, I'd agree with that. I enjoyed the first three books as well-written children's books, but I didn't consider myself a fan of Harry Potter until book four. Specifically, the final act of that book was a turning point for the series to become something darker and more adult.
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Oh...well I guess scratch that on legal ebook versions of Harry Potter.
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