[Artemisia] Harry Potter

[Toni Jones]

I must be a fortunate soul, my daughter happens to
like reading the books so she can point out the flaws
of the movie.  A little strange I know and going to
the movies with her is a riot, she is worse then most
the critics I have seen lol.  

Bianca
--- Stephanae Baker <stephanae at countryrhoades.net>
wrote:

> I stumbled across Sorcerer's Stone in the bookstore
> before the uproar  
> myself. I thought it was a decent read and even gave
> a copy to my  
> niece (who asked me after the fury began, "Wow, how
> did you know?")  
> But it hasn't stopped me from being somewhat
> saddened that it is  
> these particular books that have supposedly caused
> "the revival of  
> literacy." I grew up with so many incredible books.
> And now that the  
> Harry Potter movies are out, I have my doubts about
> the series  
> reviving literacy anyway. My children don't enjoy
> reading the way I  
> did at their ages. They were too young for the books
> before the  
> movies started, and now they've seen the movies but
> haven't bothered  
> with the books. I can't figure out why books no
> longer catch the  
> imagination of so many of our children, and if Harry
> Potter did  
> capture their imaginations for a time, I can't argue
> that that's a  
> bad thing, but I also don't think it's lasting. If
> we can't focus the  
> excitement on other books, too, it will all die down
> in short order.  
> I think we've tried, but overall, I don't think
> we've succeeded.  
> Maybe if they'd never made the movies . . .
> 
> Belladonna
> 
> 
> On Jul 25, 2007, at 11:52 AM, Andrea Waddell wrote:
> 
> > I had the distinct advantage of being introduced
> to the Potter  
> > books BEFORE the fury started.  I took a
> children's lit class in  
> > college and the professor said something along the
> lines of "These  
> > are great books, not many people are reading them,
> but I thought  
> > I'd recommend it to you."  That was when there was
> only ONE book  
> > out. :) I can honestly say that if the huge uproar
> about them was  
> > already in full swing when I first heard of them,
> I probably  
> > wouldn't have read them.-Maysun
> >
>
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