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I'm always suspicious of adults who list Harry Potter as their favourite book.
by SteveC 19y ago
I'm always suspicious of adults who list Harry Potter as their favourite book.
- Tichy 19y agohave you read it?
- rglovejoy 19y agoI've read all of them. They're a lot of fun, but I think it's important to go beyond them and read the books that inspired J.K. Rowling. Joseph Campbell's works on legends and mythology are particularly instructive.
- Tichy 19y agoI won't claim that they are the best books ever, but I think they have some merits that make their success understandable.
- demallien 19y agoThe brilliance of the Potter books is more in the way that they start off as being extremely accessible to children, but by the time the series finishes, they are truly adult-level books. It's a good way of getting children through that speed hump - most young children read, but many stop during adolescense. Harry and Co help with this problem.
- mtts 19y agoAgreed. Adults who list Harry Potter as their favorite book (which is not the same as admitting Harry Potter is a fun read) by doing so fairly explicitly state that the universe of a children's book, however well written it is, is pretty much all the intellectual stimulation they care for. Nothing wrong with them, most likely, but certainly not people I'd want to invest emotionally in. YMMV, of course.
- Tichy 19y agoBy that logic, listing any book as a favorite would mean that you have a limited intellectual horizon, after all, you only care for the intellectual stimulation provided by that book.