See you, Harry

[thedarkages]

It is with great pleasure that I am going to be deaccessioning all my Harry Potter books, and sending them where they will do some good. I say this not in order to violate Maimonides' rules as flagrantly as possible, but out of a sense of relief that the little buggers will be out of my home at last and free up a good foot-and-a-half of shelf space. My theory of Potter is "once read, best forgotten." I hope that the intended recipients will be lured to reading and then let loose on sounder fare, like The Wind in the Willows.

Comments

[ryba-kit.livejournal.com]

As greythistle says, it's a cultural moment.

Good riddance.

good for you

[vlforman.livejournal.com]

I applaud your decision.

[yesenixan.livejournal.com]

While I only read the first volume, I have to say that the one thing I found most unimpressive about it - more than the utterly flat writing, the bland characters, the unimaginative action - was the pervasive inauthenticity of its atmosphere. It was as though it were written by someone who had never set foot outside of Newark, trying to sound as British as possible - like writing a book set in Paris and having the characters say "ze" instead of "the" and "sacre-bleu" at least once every other page. I could maybe forgive this in a book actually set in Newark, but feh - give me Michael Ende instead any day. (Though the English translations of him suck.)

[thedarkages]

I believe that in the third book, the students of foreign Houses do get "zees" and "sacre bleus." Of course, I can no longer look this up. :-)