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By: It’s Furious Balancing » Blog Archive » The Harry Potter Post I've Been Putting Off

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:02:21 +0000

[...] will admit, despite my earlier reservations and protestations to the contrary, that I am enjoying the Harry Potter series. “Enjoying” may be too tepid of an [...]

By: Tarre

Tarre — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:17:02 +0000

If I wanted to find Jesus, I’d throw a rock in Mexico. I’m confident that I’d end up hitting him.

Jakys was surprised that he enjoyed the movies, which leave a lot out, as far too many movies do.

A bathroom is incomplete without reading material.

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:51:51 +0000

I won’t comment on the Harry Potter book yet, but I’m very interested to see if you like it, something tells me you will. But your footnote regarding “finding Jesus” was hilarious I always wondered if he was lost too.

By: Laiane

Laiane — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:03:45 +0000

Despite the sardonic tone of my post, I’m looking forward to reading it. I have the sneaking feeling I may have been missing out on an interesting series all these years.

By: Octopus Knits

Octopus Knits — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:50:18 +0000

Ha! Your LOL cat choices are superb!

Uh,hum…. I’m one of those who finished the 7th Harry Potter book less than 24 hours after receiving it in the mail (my husband finished it late last night — we did a bit of tag team reading, passing it off whenever one of us needed to do something else). I have really enjoyed the series, and while there are plenty of things you can knitpick about (aren’t there always?), I think my enjoyment is what really matters in the end. I find the stories to be very entertaining, and I appreciate the way Rowling injects humor into even the much “darker” later books.

If you choose to read more of the series after “Sorcerer’s Stone” you will find that the books show an interesting progression in complexity of language, character, and plot that (to me, anyway) makes a great deal of sense.

I hope you enjoy the book!