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Post by beergut on Jul 23, 2017 21:35:32 GMT -5
It was first published 20 years ago in England
Talking to my 9 year old niece today, I found out she is currently on Book 4 in the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Now that we're moving into the second generation for this book, how many of you have children reading Rowling's work?
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Post by steph08 on Jul 24, 2017 7:01:44 GMT -5
Children reading Rowling's work?
Shit, I'm re-reading Harry Potter for like the 25th time right now (just finishing up OOTP).
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Post by milee on Jul 24, 2017 7:21:57 GMT -5
If you want to be the Cool Uncle, you'll call it "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"...
Both my boys and I read that series. We enjoyed them all and were also big fans of the movies. That's rare and a great surprise; usually the movies made from books aren't enjoyable if you're familiar with and like the books.
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Post by giramomma on Jul 24, 2017 9:09:10 GMT -5
If you want to be the Cool Uncle, you'll call it "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"... Both my boys and I read that series. We enjoyed them all and were also big fans of the movies. That's rare and a great surprise; usually the movies made from books aren't enjoyable if you're familiar with and like the books. DS and I did that..except I read to him (in our kids' school, parents can read to kids for the reading at home assignment in kindergarten). We'd read the book and then watch a movie for the first couple of books. Then we had to wait for movies to come out. He's still re-reading the books at 13. DD1 was never interested in the books. The peanut isn't particularly interested in reading. Right now she's at writing down letters that she likes to write and then asking me what word "KTEEIIIHHHEE" is. I wouldn't mind reading the books again. But, it's going to be a long while. I can't do books on tape. I tune them out.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2017 9:13:57 GMT -5
My 15 year old has been through the series a couple times. I've never had a big interest in reading them myself.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 24, 2017 9:14:23 GMT -5
Children reading Rowling's work? Shit, I'm re-reading Harry Potter for like the 25th time right now (just finishing up OOTP). I started listening to them to fall asleep to (it's the only way to shit off my brain at night). I think I looped the series for about 10 years. Typo or intentional? I like the expression if intentional.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Jul 24, 2017 10:12:43 GMT -5
magic and fantasy type books have never appealed to me. Now a good murder-mystery is a different story!
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Post by steph08 on Jul 24, 2017 10:52:58 GMT -5
I started reading them around...15, I'd guess. It was right after Goblet of Fire came out and my neighbor gave them all to me to read. I remember pre-ordering OOTP and was super mad because I was on a senior trip in Costa Rica when it was released. I went at midnight to get HBP and DH.
I read them almost every summer. I love them; they are my favorite books of all-time. It's one of the main reasons why I have a B.A. in English - I had always been a big reader, but Harry Potter really kicked it off for me in my teenage years when I was too busy doing other stuff to focus on reading.
My BFF's mom once said to me in high school "I'm too smart to read those books." That always stuck with me - as a teenager, I was already smarter than she would ever be, and it doesn't matter what you read, smut novels, young adult, fantasy, mystery, non-fiction, people who read are always the smart ones.
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jul 24, 2017 13:26:52 GMT -5
YDS read a couple. Both kids have seen a couple of the movies. I could never get into it. I guess we're not really fans.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Jul 24, 2017 15:31:13 GMT -5
magic and fantasy type books have never appealed to me. Now a good murder-mystery is a different story! I got a HUGE eye roll and a very " you are must not be very intelligent" look from a mom in my group when I said that I never read Harry Potter nor do I plan to. Then I got a five minute lecture about how this is a classic and we owe it to our children, who we are educating, to read the classics, etc etc. We never had another playdate after that.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Jul 24, 2017 15:33:10 GMT -5
I started reading them around...15, I'd guess. It was right after Goblet of Fire came out and my neighbor gave them all to me to read. I remember pre-ordering OOTP and was super mad because I was on a senior trip in Costa Rica when it was released. I went at midnight to get HBP and DH. I read them almost every summer. I love them; they are my favorite books of all-time. It's one of the main reasons why I have a B.A. in English - I had always been a big reader, but Harry Potter really kicked it off for me in my teenage years when I was too busy doing other stuff to focus on reading. My BFF's mom once said to me in high school "I'm too smart to read those books." That always stuck with me - as a teenager, I was already smarter than she would ever be, and it doesn't matter what you read, smut novels, young adult, fantasy, mystery, non-fiction, people who read are always the smart ones."A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” Well.....at some point if probably does....
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 24, 2017 15:36:21 GMT -5
magic and fantasy type books have never appealed to me. Now a good murder-mystery is a different story! I got a HUGE eye roll and a very " you are must not be very intelligent" look from a mom in my group when I said that I never read Harry Potter nor do I plan to. Then I got a five minute lecture about how this is a classic and we owe it to our children, who we are educating, to read the classics, etc etc. We never had another playdate after that. I haven't read one of the Potter books yet nor seen any of the movies. Not interested.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Jul 24, 2017 16:08:19 GMT -5
magic and fantasy type books have never appealed to me. Now a good murder-mystery is a different story! I got a HUGE eye roll and a very " you are must not be very intelligent" look from a mom in my group when I said that I never read Harry Potter nor do I plan to. Then I got a five minute lecture about how this is a classic and we owe it to our children, who we are educating, to read the classics, etc etc. We never had another playdate after that. I'm sorry but that has to be the stupidest mother I have ever heard of. I've read all the Harry Potter's and seen the movies (I hate movies from books and these were no exception) but I would have punched her in the face if she said that to me. Like steph, I have a BA in English because I love to read. I am not the fondest fan of the classics and I loathe Shakespeare with all my being, but I as long as someone is reading I don't care what they read. DH used to read comic books and Ravenloft. He's not a big reader but as long as he knows how to read, I'm good.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Jul 24, 2017 16:23:52 GMT -5
magic and fantasy type books have never appealed to me. Now a good murder-mystery is a different story! I got a HUGE eye roll and a very " you are must not be very intelligent" look from a mom in my group when I said that I never read Harry Potter nor do I plan to. Then I got a five minute lecture about how this is a classic and we owe it to our children, who we are educating, to read the classics, etc etc. We never had another playdate after that. LMAO, the classics?!?! Not sure if the HP series is up there with Great Expectations, Catcher in the Rye, and Jane Eyre.... Oh, and Hemingway makes me stabby.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Jul 24, 2017 16:43:39 GMT -5
I got a HUGE eye roll and a very " you are must not be very intelligent" look from a mom in my group when I said that I never read Harry Potter nor do I plan to. Then I got a five minute lecture about how this is a classic and we owe it to our children, who we are educating, to read the classics, etc etc. We never had another playdate after that. LMAO, the classics?!?! Not sure if the HP series is up there with Great Expectations, Catcher in the Rye, and Jane Eyre.... Oh, and Hemingway makes me stabby. And I like Hemingway. Yes, he was a misogynstic prick but he was also a good author. Steinbeck certainly isn't my favorite but I have fond memories of a group project on "The Wayward Bus" and the amount of alcohol consumed was rather majestic but we got an A.
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Post by whoisjohngalt on Jul 24, 2017 16:50:20 GMT -5
The ironic part is that I actually grew up reading classics. Partially bc of my grandma, partially bc our school curriculum covered many.
I am very familiar with Moliere and Flaubert but I guess until I read HP I am not qualified to home school my children. Oh well....
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Post by steph08 on Jul 24, 2017 18:23:53 GMT -5
To me, Harry Potter is a classic. A classic story of good versus evil. A classic story of the journey through life and accepting who you are. Is the writing the best? Sometimes no. But sometimes there is a quote so poignant that speaks to me in a language that I can understand. I love Jane Austen and I've read the Bronte sisters and lots of classics. But maybe I'm losing my touch because I picked up A Death in the Family ("a timeless masterpiece," Pulitzer prize), and i wanted to stab myself in the eye. I consider myself to have read Moby Dick even though I skipped 100-150 pages in the middle because I couldn't read it without falling asleep. Maybe I'm just a phony book lover because of that and my HP love.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Jul 24, 2017 19:15:28 GMT -5
I think as long as you aren't only reading those porn books, you're good.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Jul 24, 2017 19:15:57 GMT -5
LMAO, the classics?!?! Not sure if the HP series is up there with Great Expectations, Catcher in the Rye, and Jane Eyre.... Oh, and Hemingway makes me stabby. And I like Hemingway. Yes, he was a misogynstic prick but he was also a good author. Steinbeck certainly isn't my favorite but I have fond memories of a group project on "The Wayward Bus" and the amount of alcohol consumed was rather majestic but we got an A. Hemingway uses too many adjectives.
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Post by ilovedolphins on Jul 24, 2017 19:26:00 GMT -5
Children reading Rowling's work? Shit, I'm re-reading Harry Potter for like the 25th time right now (just finishing up OOTP). I re read them all last summer and I'm 55. My kids loved them so I had to read them. I have always been a reader. When I was a kid I was always reading. In the summer time I looked forward most to the summer reading program at the library.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2017 19:51:32 GMT -5
My grandchildren have been reading them since they were in second grade. From personal experience, once you are a good reader, you can read anything. Whether it's age appropriate or not is a different story, but these are fine. They make all these allusions to muggles, etc. I had to buy my oldest granddaughter (8) some sort of map for Christmas. It is a big deal for them. I never got started, and I'm not interested now. I did manage the Hunger Games series and the Twilight series to understand that hype. But the Harry Potter books can join the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It's just not my style. I did read The Hobbit to please a bunch of tenth graders who said, "We read your books. Teach one of ours." My first thought was that the dragon in The Hobbit is the same dragon in Beowulf. Much to my surprise, Tolkien was a major OE scholar who had translated Beowulf. While that couldn't get me through LoR, it did give me a piece of trivia to hook my kids when we read Beowulf. I don't know if they are classics or not. What even makes a book a classic? Is The Handmaid's Tale now a classic because of the Hulu's series? It's a really good book, by the way. Stephen King's books generate a new audience with every generation, but his works are not classics. Uncle Tom's Cabin help start the Civil War, but it's not a classic. I read it in graduate school, and it's the worst soap opera imaginable. So, anyway, I'm not worried that I haven't read Harry Potter. I read a lot, and there are a lot more books I haven't read than those I have. As a child, I tried to read the library alphabetically. It wasn't that big a library. Lol. I have given up such delusions in my old age.
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Post by jkapp on Jul 24, 2017 20:22:11 GMT -5
I got a HUGE eye roll and a very " you are must not be very intelligent" look from a mom in my group when I said that I never read Harry Potter nor do I plan to. Then I got a five minute lecture about how this is a classic and we owe it to our children, who we are educating, to read the classics, etc etc. We never had another playdate after that. LMAO, the classics?!?! Not sure if the HP series is up there with Great Expectations, Catcher in the Rye, and Jane Eyre.... Oh, and Hemingway makes me stabby. It was those kinds of "classics" that made me hate reading when I was in school. If it weren't for fantasy fiction novels (and Stephen King's IT), I doubt I ever would have been much of a reader. The only book assigned by school that I enjoyed reading was Treasure Island. Everything else was like pulling teeth. And Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn can kiss my ass!
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Post by jkapp on Jul 24, 2017 20:26:55 GMT -5
My grandchildren have been reading them since they were in second grade. From personal experience, once you are a good reader, you can read anything. Whether it's age appropriate or not is a different story, but these are fine. They make all these allusions to muggles, etc. I had to buy my oldest granddaughter (8) some sort of map for Christmas. It is a big deal for them. I never got started, and I'm not interested now. I did manage the Hunger Games series and the Twilight series to understand that hype. But the Harry Potter books can join the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It's just not my style. I did read The Hobbit to please a bunch of tenth graders who said, "We read your books. Teach one of ours." My first thought was that the dragon in The Hobbit is the same dragon in Beowulf. Much to my surprise, Tolkien was a major OE scholar who had translated Beowulf. While that couldn't get me through LoR, it did give me a piece of trivia to hook my kids when we read Beowulf. I don't know if they are classics or not. What even makes a book a classic? Is The Handmaid's Tale now a classic because of the Hulu's series? It's a really good book, by the way. Stephen King's books generate a new audience with every generation, but his works are not classics. Uncle Tom's Cabin help start the Civil War, but it's not a classic. I read it in graduate school, and it's the worst soap opera imaginable. So, anyway, I'm not worried that I haven't read Harry Potter. I read a lot, and there are a lot more books I haven't read than those I have. As a child, I tried to read the library alphabetically. It wasn't that big a library. Lol. I have given up such delusions in my old age. The Hobbit is very different than the LOTR. I could barely get through the Hobbit even now, but LOTR I could read every year. When I was a kid, though, Tolkien's work was hard for me to follow. I think the names he uses are so difficult and also so similar that it was hard for me to keep track. It took me until my twenties (when the movies started coming out) until I went back to try reading them again because I was so put off from them when I was a kid.
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Post by raeoflyte on Jul 25, 2017 13:10:24 GMT -5
The kids listened to the first book with me last year before our Harry Potter themed halloween party. The movies are still too scary for them, but C plays the lego HP video game.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Jul 25, 2017 13:45:40 GMT -5
I liked the audiobooks. Jim Dale has a great voice. I remember listening to them at an old job. Friend would bring them in and our group would download them onto our computers and listen to them. HP and the Chronicles of Narnia series. I love Aslan. Usually I don't bother with audiobooks because I need to be able to see the words or faces but the voices were soothing and I already read HP.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jul 25, 2017 13:51:04 GMT -5
I can't do Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit. I've tried so many times but just.. ugh. I own all the Harry Potter books and enjoy them. I read the Hunger Games trilogy. I really enjoyed the first book but the second and third books are awful. I read Twilight. I wanted my $10 back.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Jul 25, 2017 13:54:07 GMT -5
I am debating about reading The Hobbit and the LOTR series. I have my dad's books with notes and all that fun stuff from when he used them to teach back in the 70s. Lord almighty. I'm actually afraid they'll crumble into dust if I try to open them.
And I read part of Twilight when a friend sent me the ebooks. I skimmed them and then just gave up when I got to vampires glittering in sunlight. I just could not get past that. Stupidest thing I ever heard of. I prefer a head on a stake outside a castle in Transylvania.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jul 25, 2017 14:31:18 GMT -5
I am debating about reading The Hobbit and the LOTR series. I have my dad's books with notes and all that fun stuff from when he used them to teach back in the 70s. Lord almighty. I'm actually afraid they'll crumble into dust if I try to open them. And I read part of Twilight when a friend sent me the ebooks. I skimmed them and then just gave up when I got to vampires glittering in sunlight. I just could not get past that. Stupidest thing I ever heard of. I prefer a head on a stake outside a castle in Transylvania. THAT is what made you give up? I couldn't get past that an immortal being who can have anyone in the world they could possibly want would want Bella. Even more absurd is that another equally hot dude/immortal would ALSO want her. I kept wishing one of the chapters would be about how Edward drained Bella dry after getting tired of listening to her whine for 100 pages. I couldn't understand why Bill and Eric fought over Sookie either for that matter.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Jul 25, 2017 14:36:20 GMT -5
I am debating about reading The Hobbit and the LOTR series. I have my dad's books with notes and all that fun stuff from when he used them to teach back in the 70s. Lord almighty. I'm actually afraid they'll crumble into dust if I try to open them. And I read part of Twilight when a friend sent me the ebooks. I skimmed them and then just gave up when I got to vampires glittering in sunlight. I just could not get past that. Stupidest thing I ever heard of. I prefer a head on a stake outside a castle in Transylvania. THAT is what made you give up? I couldn't get past that an immortal being who can have anyone in the world they could possibly want would want Bella. Even more absurd is that another equally hot dude/immortal would ALSO want her. I kept wishing one of the chapters would be about how Edward drained Bella dry after getting tired of listening to her whine for 100 pages. I couldn't understand why Bill and Eric fought over Sookie either for that matter. Like I said, I skimmed. I didn't read the stupid thing word for word. She did seem a bit whiny though, didn't she? I have never read or seen the True Blood series either and have no interest. That is the Sookie you mean, right? I am assuming not Gilmore Girls since last I heard they didn't have vampires.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jul 25, 2017 14:38:47 GMT -5
I tried to read the Sookie Stackhouse novels and OMFG they were even worse. At least with True Blood we weren't trapped inside Sookie's head.
I never really cared for Sookie's plot lines in True Blood. I was much more interested in all the side characters.
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