Brian Hennigan: There is another sense in which I don't know JK Rowling. I don't read her books. There is a simple reason for this. I am not a child. Harry Potter books are for children. Some adults read them. These adults are losers.
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Let me also say that, yes, I have read a Harry Potter book. It was nice enough - for a children's book. But at no point did I ever think that I was involved in anything other than a book for children.
There was not anything of entertainment value for a fully-developed adult mind. I am sure that one or two adults read Harry Potter books in the same distracted way that soap operas are observed or crisps are munched - in a manner entirely consistent with the obliteration of whatever dreary day they have just got through and in search of some temporary relief from the trauma of an unjust world. [Via
BookSlut]
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Gerry Canavan @ 10:50 AM
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