NEW HARRY POTTER!

[oneirophrenia]

OMG OMG OMG OMG OH MY WANG, THE NEW HARRY POTTER BOOK COMES OUT THIS SATURDAY!!!!!!!!!11!11!

I really couldn't give less of a shit if you cleaned me out completely with a high-pressure colonic.

Harry Potter does absolutely nothing for me. I've seen the films, and they were amusing--were I six I would've been jizzing my Underroos over them--and I tried to read the first book...but I lost interest in it by page 24.

It's not that the books are badly-written, I just find them too unbelievably hackneyed. But remember: I am an amazingly jaded reader who grew tired of the same old fantasy plots by the age of 12, by which time I'd read enough lousy Tolkien ripoffs to realize that fantasy as a genre is often far too conventionalized for my tastes. To me, Harry Potter is just yet another wizard-school tale. Not like I haven't read thousands of those.

Still, I do find it incredibly encouraging that so many children are VORACIOUSLY reading these 600-plus-page books! Kids aren't jaded like me, and the fact that Rowling is putting forth such a popular series that inspires kids' imaginations is 100% Totally Commendable--and for that I believe she deserves every penny she makes.

But the books just leave me cold.

Maybe if Voldemort turned out to be an incarnation of Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, or eventually--when he's near graduation from Hogwort's--Harry and his crew have to defeat the interdimensional menace of Azathoth and the Other Gods, I might find it more interesting. But as of now...griffins and dragons and dark wizards? Come on. Might as well read Rpbert Jordan's Wheel of Time books.

Comments

[deviant-1.livejournal.com]

Well the Pope thinks they are evil, so there must be some redeeming quality to them.

[z0mb1e.livejournal.com]

I like for the same reason I think other people like TV. It is a mindless, entertaining few hours where I don't have to think about a damn thing.

[prolixe.livejournal.com]

i dunno... i read like the first 3 or 4 books and loved them. i sooo want to live in that world! which is perhaps why it's pretty much one of the few things in the fantasy genre i'll ever touch (the rest being psion, catspaw, and dreamfall by joan d. vinge). but i've been afraid to read any further because i heard sirius dies (i'm such a retarded sirius/remus shipper). ::sigh:: but i guess i should catch up so i can read the new one and not be lost.

[djarianna.livejournal.com]

I read the first one and loved it. Tried to read the 2nd one and stopped within the first chapter or 2. I figure i'll just be braindead and watch the movies