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Post by dickens38 on Sept 29, 2020 1:13:05 GMT
Are any of you fans of Harry Potter books and films? I have all the books and films. Love fantasy. Merlin is also a passion of mine, I have that Box Set too.
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 29, 2020 1:40:14 GMT
I read a few of them when they were originally published many years ago. I was young but not so young like the main audience. It was more about finding what was the fuss! They were entertaining but I think they become more "overstuffed" and bigger and bigger with time!
I don't think I have watched all the movies neither but again I was a little too old for them!
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Post by mllemass on Sept 29, 2020 4:01:43 GMT
I have never read any Harry Potter. As the books came out, I had lots of people tell me I would love them, but they just didn’t interest me. People always seem shocked when I tell them that. It actually doesn’t matter to me that they’re meant for younger readers - I have liked books that aren’t necessarily written for me. I’m just not a fan of fantasy/adventure books.
And I haven’t seen any of the movies, other than the beginning of the first one.
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Post by dickens38 on Sept 29, 2020 7:02:36 GMT
I have never read any Harry Potter. As the books came out, I had lots of people tell me I would love them, but they just didn’t interest me. People always seem shocked when I tell them that. It actually doesn’t matter to me that they’re meant for younger readers - I have liked books that aren’t necessarily written for me. I’m just not a fan of fantasy/adventure books. And I haven’t seen any of the movies, other than the beginning of the first one. Fair enough. Fantasy isn't for everyone.
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Post by ellie on Sept 29, 2020 7:27:24 GMT
Yes I’ve read all the books. I’m not a fan of fantasy but Harry Potter seems more in the mystery and Enid Blyton style boarding school yarns to me. I really enjoyed the first four books. The final three I felt were too long and would have benefited from some extensive editing.
I haven’t seen all the movies but enjoyed those I did see.
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 29, 2020 10:12:31 GMT
Agreed that you don't need to be a kid to enjoy children's books but those books were a huge phenomenon with children of certain generation. I was just saying I was too old to be part of that particular generation and didn't feel the connection with the books that those kids seemed to have even today as adults!
They probably were the first book they read! I was a young adult then so I had read a lot of books by then! Both, children and adult books.
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Post by queenzod on Sept 29, 2020 11:21:49 GMT
I read them all & saw all the movies. My dad loved them, and he was in his 70s! I thought the first 4 or 5 books & movies were the best, and I agree with Ellie that the latter ones got way too long and needed a strongly wielded red pen. I didn’t particularly care for the last two at all, and I was so bored in those movies that I almost fell asleep and had ceased to care at that point.
The early ones were so inventive and filled with wonderful characters! Very enjoyable. Then they got ponderous and frankly, dull. I think they suffered from the same issue as Peter Jackson’s Hobbit movies, in that she fell so in love with her own mystique and importance that she let it affect the way the story was told. She should have kept it short, sharp, and funny.
Now, of course, she’s persona non grata with most of her previous fans, and that’s tainted the memory of the books for a lot of people who can’t separate the art from the artist. It’s too bad, actually.
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Post by mllemass on Sept 29, 2020 11:24:00 GMT
Yes, I see your point. It would have been pretty exciting, as a young person, to have it be the first book you read.
I remember taking The Outsiders out of the library when I was 11 or 12, and I loved it so much that I forced my friends to read it. I had already read a lot of books by then, but this one seemed more “grown up” and special. Years later, they were teaching it in high-school English classes, and I think now it’s part of the elementary school curriculum. I took a children’s literature course in university, and I discovered some wonderful books that I would otherwise have missed because they were labelled as “children’s” . Oh, and I hated The Hobbit and Peter Pan so much that I ended up writing an essay about Peter Pan without actually finishing it!
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Post by queenzod on Sept 29, 2020 12:29:25 GMT
Peter Pan was a little sh*t, tbh, lol. Although I really loved Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, which started when he was a baby and flew away. Then a while later, he flew home but there were bars on the windows and his mummy was cuddling a different baby so he had to return to the Gardens, that always seemed so sad to me! I loved the idea that you live with the birds before you’re born and had wings, so when you’re a very small baby, the bits on your shoulders that used to be wings would itch, and if you concentrated very hard, you could still fly.
Or maybe that was something my brother told me to get me to eat my bread crusts, lol. I don’t remember. 😂
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Post by onebluestocking on Sept 29, 2020 13:18:59 GMT
I'm 54, and I love all of the Harry Potter books and movies! We had planned a trip to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Florida, back in May, but COVID happened. Maybe next year.
I got the audiobook of Peter Pan from the library to listen to in the car with the kids, and was...surprised...how different the book was from the Disney movie, LOL
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