It seems there are always some highbrows to critisize Harry Potter everytime the new book comes out-It used to be Harold Bloom at WSJ, and now Ron Charles at WP. I think it really condecsending. I dropped the book after 15 pages of it-many years ago, I don’t see how it can be love by so many. Now Ron Charles pointed out where you find the enjoyment and the danger of such pleasure.
” Consider that, with the release of each new volume, Rowling’s readers have been driven not only into greater fits of enthusiasm but into more precise synchronization with one another. Through a marvel of modern publishing, advertising and distribution, millions of people will receive or buy “The Deathly Hallows” on a single day. There’s something thrilling about that sort of unity, except that it has almost nothing to do with the unique pleasures of reading a novel: that increasingly rare opportunity to step out of sync with the world, to experience something intimate and private, the sense that you and an author are conspiring for a few hours to experience a place by yourselves — without a movie version or a set of action figures. Through no fault of Rowling’s, Potter mania nonetheless trains children and adults to expect the roar of the coliseum, a mass-media experience that no other novel can possibly provide.”
In the article, he started by the recount of his experience of reading the book with his daughter-at the third book, the 10-year-old aksed:” do we have to keep reading this?”. I really hope Fifi will have that kind of good judgement by that age, so I don’t have to read, or watch, Harry Potter with her:)