Harry Potter - crap or not?

[Amw79]

Not crap, good writing, good world. Authors gone rogue but doesn't detract from the content she did put out

Other way round. Fact that the authors gone rogue shouldn’t detract from her rubbish wizard guff.

 

[summerisle]

 

[tommye]

Try Animal Farm mate

Saw that when I was a teenager.
The bit where the fella's got the chickens head stuck in the drawer was just plain wrong

 

[tonyhorne]

The books have their detractors but they were very successful at the time.

So many kids would queue for hours on the day of release to buy them that it made the national news.

I guess the target audience are the ones to ask ...

 

[Rita_Poon]

The books have their detractors but they were very successful at the time.

So many kids would queue for hours on the day of release to buy them that it made the national news.

I guess the target audience are the ones to ask ...

They might've grown up a bit since?

 

[tommye]

The books have their detractors but they were very successful at the time

So was Hitler for a while...

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

The books have their detractors but they were very successful at the time.

So many kids would queue for hours on the day of release to buy them that it made the national news.

I guess the target audience are the ones to ask ...

Kids would queue up for Jim’ll Fix It and all mate.

 

[Rita_Poon]

 

[ArtetaMagic]

Watched most of the movies with my wee lad recently, they are awful. He'd ask me which is my favourite so far and I couldn't even name them. Will eventually have to give in and watch the final 2!!

 

[miami]

For anyone who hasn’t read the books yet, harry gets burned at the stake by Voldemort on the last page.

 

[Ferguson1878]

For anyone who hasn’t read the books yet, harry gets burned at the stake by Voldemort on the last page.

Thanks mate kids are crying their eyes out now

 

[navidson]

Great for kids

 

[LostLegend]

No opinion either way, they're kids books really, clearly very popular ones.

My mates daughter is bang into them, collects the memorabilia and that. Which was cute when she was about 13, but she's in her mid 20's now and still collects all the Harry Potter stuff.
She has a lot of cats as well, which I am sure has something to do with it...

 

[Bohemian Toffee]

Remember being repulsed by the number of adults reading the books on the tube back in the day.

Tried showing my kids the movie, they weren't even slightly interested.

Oldest one was about 10 and kept saying how the girl wouldn't be friends with the two losers and how kids in her class wouldn't know which of the boys to bully first.

For context, they quite like the Corden voiced Peter Rabbit movie, which I think should be classified as a war crime.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Remember being repulsed by the number of adults reading the books on the tube back in the day.

Tried showing my kids the movie, they weren't even slightly interested.

Oldest one was about 10 and kept saying how the girl wouldn't be friends with the two losers and how kids in her class wouldn't know which of the boys to bully first.

For context, they quite like the Corden voiced Peter Rabbit movie, which I think should be classified as a war crime.

'Watership down' em. That'll show em. Failing that, the big guns... 'Bambi'.