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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I never read the second or the rest of them. Just not my cuppa (I love fantasy, but Harry Potter seemed... dunno... too childish or something. The whole bit with Harry's childhood and all felt like it was written for a ten years old. Perhaps it was. But it was really offputting for the adult me.)
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This ties in with a given for me; I can only enjoy children’s books if I’m reading them with a child. I started them with a six-year old nephew in 1999; we caught up and read
The Prisoner of Azkaban when it came out that year and kept up with them after that. He still loves the series, but annoys his friends because he brings a very critical eye to the story, the characterizations, the discontinuities and so forth, which were fodder for our discussions of the texts when he was a kid. I might not have been the ideal reading companion.