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Originally Posted by montsnmags
However, Steven King did a "Now that the dust has settled" post, post-'Deathly Hallows', that you might at the very least find entertaining.
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Cool, thanks for sharing. It was a good article. I'm definitely one of those people who underestimates the power of Potter, though.
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Originally Posted by nekokami
My friends who are librarians have commented that she seems to have made reading much more popular with kids.
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Reading Harry Potter is popular. I'm skeptical about its long-term carryover effect for other literature. As someone who has loved books his entire life, I found it pretty irksome when the Pottermania hit and I had to suddenly defend my literary tastes against those who viewed Harry Potter as the pinnacle of literary achievement (an old argument with a friend from school comes to mind: he tried to argue that HP was better than Tolkien's LOTR; the heated emotion and sense of blasphemy that I felt is hard to explain). Only after I read the first four books of HP (which is how many there were at the time) did I understand why it was a popular series. It is a good series, but not great. I can't help but feel that if these people read more, they would understand that.
Sorry for my literary snobbery. It's just how I've always been and I see no reason to change.
