I hate them all but since everyone seems to like them go ahead and pick your favorite. Thank god for this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Trotter
I enjoyed prisoner of azkaban most, it was the first one i ever read and Sirius black is my favorite character.... *tear*
order of the pheonix had me hooked by the way, it's not the ''philosophers stone'' its the ''sorcerer's stone''
Yeah well that's not really the best one. try order of the pheonix or goblet of fire, those were great!
i was listening to the radio today and they ahve spoiled the ending of the last book for me, because they have had to open counselling lines for all the fans, why cant they keep they're big mouths shut??!!!!!
why is it geeky? all because we are all differant to each other doesnt mean we are geeks, nerds and what not.
Incorrect, the original novel outside the USA is called the philosophers stone, the problem with US is the publishers thought nobody (in the America) would understand it was about magic, so they renamed it to sorcerer's stone. The real title outside this country is what I've put in the poll. Sadly the USA has probably done more terrible things like this we don't even know about....
What's disturbing here is that a number of people on this thread are adults. No doubt they frequent the Emma Watson fansites as well...
Elitists. This is the "Lord of the Rings" of our era. It's about The Eternal Battle Between Good And Evil For The Soul Of The World. It's got three-dimensional characters that it's possible to care about. Drama, comedy and tragedy. Allegories and metaphors, tension, betrayal, tests of character. Harry Potter is almost the archetype of the Reluctant Hero, thrust into a challenge that he is forced to rise and take on, even if it's not quite a Quest. Yes it's written in language that children can understand, but so is Le Petit Prince, which is on the reading list of many Literature 101A classes. My wife took a class in Children's Literature as she was working on her master's degree in English, and she found some fabulous books by fabulous authors there, for example Rouald Dahl's Danny, the Champion of the World. American culture, and to a slightly lesser extent that of our partners in hegemony such as the U.K., has been focused on one generation since they became old enough to spend money: the Baby Boomers. First hula hoops, rock and roll, motorcycles and marijuana, now barbecues the size of a Buick, "24," SUVs and Celebrex. That culture managed to gift civilization with its full share of classics such as Dune, "Star Trek" and "Dark Side of the Moon." Now a new generation has got the limelight and the culture being marketed to it will not fail its duty to civilization. If you don't like the Potter books, just say so, but you don't have to be curmudgeons about it, longing for the good old days when protagonists were adults and villains were ordinary mortals fighting for an enemy nation. Not all of us have the enzyme to digest the literature that professors love to read. I'll hold my IQ, my education and my ability to hold my own in an intellectual discussion up against any of yours, but I struggled unhappily with, and gave up halfway through, Cien Años de Soledad--in English.
US publishers are always doing crappy things like that. Drives me crazy. It can really mess up the symmetry of a series, too... like Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest Series, which elsewhere is Harlequin, Vagabond, and Heretic (three single-word titles of three syllables each) but in America is The Archer's Tale, Vagabond, and Heretic. It just doesn't work as well.
Me, I have a brain and some intellect, so you will never catch me reading that. I am more likely to watch C-SPAN for hours on end than ready Harry.P. I don't know why they wrote those books that long, its like 4,000 pages, and its supposed to be for the kids, so since when did kids have such ample attention span.
