Harry Potter and the Sleepless Nights

[denny]

This weeks burst of insomnia has at least meant that I had plenty of undisturbed time to read the first few Harry Potter books, which gothslut lent me last week after hearing that I still hadn't read any of them.

I'm mildly disappointed - although perfectly good books, and I wouldn't mind reading the rest if I can borrow them, I can't say that I'd bother buying them. I'm surprised because various people I know who have read them have given them such a glowing recommendation - I was expecting to be more impressed than I am.

I imagine I would have been a great deal more impressed with them when I was a kid - I think the plots and characters are just too simple to really captivate me now. Nothing wrong with them, but they've only left the kind of impression on me that a good TV show might do, rather than the deeper impression a really good book can leave on the mind...

Mind you, the third one was better than the first two, so maybe they pick up as they go on... there's certainly a fair few of them now if I remember rightly?

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I wasn't all that impressed either - I read them roughly the same way I read magazines and trashy romance novels - as braincandy.
They're not a patch on http://www.lemonysnicket.com
and very reminiscent of books like 'The Worst Witch' and 'The Littlest Vampire' that I read as a small child.

[duranorak.livejournal.com]

See, I've now read the Lemony Snicket books as well. And I think they're bloody awful. And I adore Harry Potter.

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If you like a series of unfortunate events...

[vickster31.livejournal.com]

Their is going to be a programme broadcast on lemony snicket on 17th december on bbc4, i also adore the books...
(although i preferred harry potter).
-vixen

Re: If you like a series of unfortunate events...

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

really? oh wow!