NEW HARRY POTTER!
Jul. 14th, 2005 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oneirophreniaOMG 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.
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.
