EPTI'm 20 for people that were asking. Definitely 2 age groups above target audience for the first two books I guess haha.
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ArbAttack
Canada198 Posts
I'm 20 for people that were asking. Definitely 2 age groups above target audience for the first two books I guess haha. | ||
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Tyrio
United States3248 Posts
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Comeh
United States18918 Posts
On October 25 2010 11:47 Tyrio wrote: Books 1-4 are good, rest are terrible (some have a few shining moments, i.e. Luna, but that's about it). Movies 1, 2 and 4 are good, rest are terrible. O.o Really? You thought the best movies were 1 2 and 4? The movies, in my opinion, didn't start getting good until movie 5 (with the change of directors), And personally I thought books 1 and two were a little slow (of course worth reading for me, but I can see other not liking them as much as others). I thought the series really started picking up after book 3. Though, again, i did like the first two books too  . | ||
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Lebesgue
4542 Posts
My favourite books where 2,4,6 and 1 in that order. Regarding the movies, I found most of them quite boring. Especially first ones. Though 4 and 6 were OK I guess. I don't understand why people like 3rd book so much. I thought it was boring. And it was that book that stopped my older sister from reading further. So if you don't like the first two there is little hope you will like the rest, in my opinion. But keep trying  | ||
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-Genome-
Australia156 Posts
Then the movies came out and although I was pretty hyped up about the first one, I couldn't enjoy because I compared every little bit of the book to the movie and got annoyed when they weren't the same lol. Also, I hated that when I went back to read the books after seeing a movie, suddenly my head was filled with all these visions from the movie, instead of the images I'd come up with myself. For example I thought of snape as kind of looking like one the ghosts out of casper (the left one). They're definitely worth reading, J.K. Rowling is pretty amazing at creating the wizard world, so it really is a top fantasy book. | ||
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djcube
United States985 Posts
The books sort of went downhill for me when they started getting "serious," but I know there are a lot of people who enjoyed the books more as the series progressed. Also, the books probably won't be as enjoyable as they could have been since you've watched all the movies and thus, know the plot and will view the characters as presented in the movie and not from your own imagination. For instance, I imagined Hermione as just an average looking girl, but she's gorgeous in the films. Even Rowling said that Emma Watson is not Hermione Granger. I guess now that I think about it, it could be difficult to try to get into the books after you've watched the movies. | ||
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Meapak_Ziphh
United States6782 Posts
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NukeTheBunnys
United States1004 Posts
On October 25 2010 10:42 riptide wrote: If you're a fan of good writing, you'll like Harry Potter. This made me cry as nothing could be further from the truth. The rest of the post does have some good points, like character development, which is ok, nothing amazing, but better then some other children's books. But the fact remains they are with out a doubt children and teen books. Some adults may enjoy them, but that does not change the fact that they are children books, and from a literary standpoint they are pretty poor. Here, from page 324 of The Order of the Phoenix, to give you a typical example, are six consecutive descriptions of the way people speak. "...said Snape maliciously," "... said Harry furiously", " ... he said glumly", "... said Hermione severely", "... said Ron indignantly", " ... said Hermione loftily". Do I need to explain why that is such second-rate writing? I started reading them when I was 13 or so, and I did read them all, but by the end it was just to finish this thing that I had been doing for almost a decade. I would never recommend it to any adult, and I wouldn't really recommended it to anything past a 3rd grader either. I think there are much better books for children/teens out there, and the same holds true for adults. | ||
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myopia
United States2928 Posts
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
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QuanticHawk
United States32026 Posts
On October 25 2010 10:42 riptide wrote: If you're a fan of good writing, you'll like Harry Potter. What??? Maybe shes a writer who knows how to appeal to a certain group of people, but she is hardly a good technical writer by any stretch of the imagination. Like just a shade above Stephanie Meyers There's a big difference between being a good writer and being a good story teller. I'm not even sure if she's the later, since she constantly gets ripped for being contrived, using Deus ex machinas like a crutch and other shitty writing. I had to read a ton of criticism about her in college because my one professor loved the series but hated that people worshiped her as a good writer. I actually was trying to find some criticisms just for this, and one of the best comments about how she and George Lucas have the misfortune of being two individuals who stumbled across great stories but ended up butchering it in the end due to their own incompetence | ||
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dtz
5834 Posts
I can see why you would think book 1 and 2 is boring especially since you know all the plot twists already. If you are really bored, i'd recommend trying to read 3 and 4. if it does not work then yea maybe you have outgrown it. | ||
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mykyoyo
United States33 Posts
It's hard to reflect on a lot of massive works like the HP series or something like Star Wars and not feel like it could have been better, but that's probably a better discussion for another topic.  | ||
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Tal
United Kingdom1012 Posts
By the 6th and 7th everything is just a mess. | ||
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