I've Succumbed

[poliphilo]

I've decided to join the human race and read the Harry Potter books. If I get my skates on I could be up to speed by the time she releases the final instalment.

I'm halfway through Philosopher's Stone. It's very readable. The style and storytelling are sometimes clumsy- but you're swept along by the stream of invention. Clever things come along at the rate of about two a page. Even though I've seen the films, she's got me wanting to know what happens next.

I miss Alan Rickman. The written Snape is just a mean old man with a hooky nose; nothing sexy about him at all.

Comments

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Someone else here pointed out that from book 3 on things will start to really whirl. Books one and two are more simplistic in a sense. And I too, refuse to forgive her if she kills off Harry or any of the other really main characters.
They do make lovely reading at all levels, I think.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm buying the whole series (secondhand, of course) which sort of commits me to stay the course. Book One is obviously not great literature, but then neither is Conan Doyle. Sometimes other things are more important.