Harry Potter and the Sleepless Nights
Dec. 14th, 2002 04:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dennyThis weeks burst of insomnia has at least meant that I had plenty of undisturbed time to read the first few Harry Potter books, which ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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?
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?
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If you like a series of unfortunate events...
Date: 2002-12-14 08:11 am (UTC)(although i preferred harry potter).
-vixen
Re: If you like a series of unfortunate events...
Date: 2002-12-14 10:24 am (UTC)