tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8490566117923011240.post2831020723725733102..comments2023-05-15T02:27:13.364-07:00Comments on The Armed Housewife: The hype over the Harry Potter booksUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8490566117923011240.post-9504055968780600942008-01-16T00:47:00.000-08:002008-01-16T00:47:00.000-08:00I too started the first book several times over qu...I too started the first book several times over quite a stretch of time and repeatedly found myself not getting through more than a chapter or so and then giving it away. I have a much younger nephew who devoured each book as it was released and I think this kind of made me more curious than the overall media/publisher hype. I watched the movies and after the most recent one (Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix) I went back to the very first book and gave it another go. I think it helped that I now already had an idea of and a feel for the characters through the movies (although there are many, many differences between the two which in some cases bugged me no end - starting from the colour of Hagrid's umbrella - black in the films but pink in the books) and I not only finished the book in record time then but was eager enough to grab the next one when I finished the first. I ended up getting through all of the ones we had, just in time for the final book to be released. Think I was half way through the second last book when the final one came out.<BR/>There are moments of sheer brilliance in the story and lots of laughs. I'm not sure whether I like the movies or the books better. Often I prefer the books to the movies with this kind of thing but in this case if it weren't for the films, I suspect I would never have appreciated the books and they are different enough to the movies and enjoyable in their own right. There was a large section in the middle of the final book that I thought was quite boring and pointless but overall I liked the series very much.<BR/>Hagrid, Hermione, Ron and Snape where the characters that made it for me. Especially the two whose names end with an 'e'. Well, I guess Harry was alright too... lolAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8490566117923011240.post-57276013347421169162007-07-23T11:51:00.000-07:002007-07-23T11:51:00.000-07:00I love, love, love children's fiction, but I never...I love, love, love children's fiction, but I never could get into Harry Potter books. There are vampires, unicorns, centaurs and dragons in the first one. Being the anal literary geek that I am, I objected too much to including all those creatures that come from completely different cultural backgrounds/mythologies. But I love the movies!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com