Yeah, I was afraid that it might not have been clear.
I relly liked them as a kid, but now I agree with Ursula K Le Guin:
I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the ‘incredible originality’ of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a ‘school novel’, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.
My nieces and nephews are currently getting into Harry Potter (their parents enable them) and I really hope that the nostalgia-hype is over, once my child is in that age.
Damn that’s a very accurate critique, mind you I find few adults care about the ethics of the fiction they consume (and I don’t mean that as purity testing, but like if you’re going to show ethics make them reasonable or interesting
I was about to down vote you until I remembered the meme format. I commented elsewhere, but here’s Shaun’s video on harry potter
Yeah, I was afraid that it might not have been clear.
I relly liked them as a kid, but now I agree with Ursula K Le Guin:
My nieces and nephews are currently getting into Harry Potter (their parents enable them) and I really hope that the nostalgia-hype is over, once my child is in that age.
Damn that’s a very accurate critique, mind you I find few adults care about the ethics of the fiction they consume (and I don’t mean that as purity testing, but like if you’re going to show ethics make them reasonable or interesting