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The Harry Potter series
Topic Started: May 22 2009, 05:32 PM (757 Views)
Lucianus
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No doubt we have all heard of this bestselling achievement by J.K. Rowling. However, is the series really all that it is made up to be? I would love to hear other's thoughts on the series.
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Haven't read it. Chances are I never will get around to it.

Most of my friends like it. However, they are mostly non-writers and so couldn't view it from our perspective.
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I read the first four books in the fourth/fifth grade. Not one for fantasy, I found them decent enough, but lacking something (which I still don't have a name for).
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Gravitas? I never really felt like the books could be taken seriously.

That said, they really aren't intended to. They were entertaining reads, which was all they set out to be, and Rowling has my respect if only because of all her cute little charity books.
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I like them. As far as kids books go, she does well. She has a very well thought out and detailed world that is easy to get caught up in. She also throws in some humour, bit of romance and yeah ... everything good haha.
Not the best I've read, but I still bought the next installment as soon as it came out. I guess it's a plot thing - despite everything else, I still wanted to know what happened.
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Well, it's decent. I read the first one when I was seven, so I was, naturally, hooked. I kept reading, but after the fourth book (which after reading I felt completely sick) I only kept reading the series because it was there. It's not really a big read for me anymore. I applaud Rowling for making a good start, but I begin to question the amount of deaths and the sudden audience switch by book 6. The ending to the seventh isn't very satisfactory to me personally.
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I read the first three when I was six and I loved them. At that age I hadn't read much else, but they got me into reading, that's for sure. I felt that the sixth and seventh books were awful -- they changed too much and seemed rushed and way too over the top. She killed all of my favouriote characters off, too, except from Hagrid. :/

I also agree with LasMJB about the ending. It was all guns-blazing, death there, drama here, more death and then the baddie dies . . . And then we get a chapter about happy families and who married who and what they're kids were called . . . Yeah . . .
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Lil JJ
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People still talk about Rowling? Really now, you must do better for yourselves.
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I'm just hoping Rowling is remembered long after Twilight fades away.

The audience switch in the final books did throw me. I, like lots of readers, grew up with the series so it's not like it became too dark for innocent li'l me or something, but I did wonder about, say, precocious forth graders who started reading Sorcerer's Stone and got all the way to Deathly Hallows in a few months...
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