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My girlfriend and I have both seen all the HP movies and enjoyed them, but haven't read any of the HP books.
With the imminent release of HP 7 the 1st part, we decided to read/skim the Harry Potter series just because we're both on co-op (lots of free time) and heard that the books are supposedly 5x better than the movies.
We started 2 days ago, and the problem is that although my girlfriend is loving the books (she's on Chamber of Secrets already), I've halfway through the Philosopher's stone and I'm bored out of my mind. I just can't get into the book at all, and forced myself to go through more than half of the book.
You heard "HP is loved by children and adults alike" about the HP series, but I think I'm just too old :S I'm going to finish reading the 1st book and give the 2nd one a try before I'll be content with just watching the movies.
Have you read the HP series? If so, did you read them as adults?
 
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I reread the seventh book and its still fantastic. The first books are a lot more childish- they're not dark at all and are actually pretty shitty in terms of substance
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I read them and liked them, I think the first few are more interesting for kids but are still good for anyone.
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Read them all, I was 14-20 I think... If I'd start now I would definately start with book 3, as 1 and 2 are pretty bad imo.. You are not missing much!
Books 3-7 are sooooo good though  .
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I'm not surprised because the Philosopher's stone was meant for kids in elementary school. Just know that the story gets more mature as you get ahead because the readers of the books and the main characters are growing.
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How old are you then?
I started reading when I was 11 and the last book was released when I was 17 so I've really been growing up with Harry Potter. The books are for children/teens for sure even if they get a bit more mature in the later books.
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No one is too old for Harry Potter, the series is great. I'm ashamed to admit how many times I've read the books... Some good memories were laddering on iCCup while listening to the Harry Potter series. If you enjoy the movies, seriously, read the books. 5x better is a joke, the movies don't even compare.
Edit: I'm 20, still reread them.
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I read them as a teenager.
It's appeal is more or less simplicity of story and believability of the characters. I was entertained, but not necessarily blown away. The publicity and hype that came from the series made me less and less interested, and was more or less reading them as time went on to keep up with everyone else's conversations.
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The first ones are so short that you can just read them anyway even if they're childish.
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The first three book are distinctly children's literature, and four to seven have a distinctly darker tone and look much more for teenagers. Ironically, though you'd probably find the substance in the fourth book onwards more interesting, the third book imo is probably the best written in actual writing quality. I never read the 6th and 7th books but whenever I bring up Harry Potter all my friends smother me with rants about how badly the 7th was actually written, so...
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strange i was never aware that the original title of the first one is The Philosopher's stone until now.
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Honestly, I eventually got bored of reading them simply because Rowling's writing is a bit long-winded. Read if you want, don't if you don't.
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Harry Potter is over-hyped in my opinion
try "A Song Of Ice And Fire" instead
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i first read the 3rd book of harry potter way back in university as an assignment. i enjoyed it so i said, why not follow hp book series. but reading thru the 1st chapter of book 1, i also got bored, i even fell asleep i believe. i wasn't able to finish the chapter 1 of book 1!
i never tried reading it again nor tried buying the other books... i just followed the movies. for me, the movies are more entertaining than the book (except for book 3). book 3 has lots of events that were not captured by the movie. but then again that's the only hp book i read so i can't compare the others.
anyway, my friends who are addicted to hp said that the best book is still book 3,
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How old are you? o.o
I read through all the books in high school, but if I had the time, I think I'd enjoy re-reading them again now.
The first two books are a bit meh, especially since you know the big things that happen from the movies. They really pick up from book 3 and on, though.
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I don't think it's an age thing. I read them as a young adult and loved them. But my friend, same age with very similar taste dislikes them and never bothered finishing the first. It's just taste.
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lol im curious how old are you?
im guessing you're somewhere around 20, give or take a couple of years.
harry potter imo is a good book, not as spectacular as how they're saying, but decent nonetheless ... i read all the 7 books ... every time the new one came out, i re-read the whole thing from book 1 so that i could grab all the facts from the beginning ...
well being a teenager is obviously much more easier to like the book ... since you can somehow relate your life to that of the story ... imagine only if one day some giant motherfucker visited your house, kicked your dad's butt and took you to a wizard school ... ah good ol' time =)
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I think its the sorcerer's stone, isn't it?
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The first three books are very light-hearted, I enjoyed them when I was young and still enjoy them- but they have definitely lost a bit of the luster they had when I was younger.
Shouldn't take to long to read the first 3 though, they're quite thin.
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On October 25 2010 09:38 Tazza wrote:
I think its the sorcerer's stone, isn't it?
yea it is
nvm its both
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