So which of the Harry Potter threads on the first page should I read?

<a href="http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/44150/">Door No. 1.</a>
<a href="http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/44467/">Door No. 2.</a>
<a href="http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/44518/">Door No. 3.</a>

 

None of the above.

 

You're just jealous.

 

That's it. 8)

Although I did watch another one of those movies last night.

 

Who's this Harry Potter of whom you speak?

 

I am a lot of things, Cadet. But jealous of Harry Potter fans is not one of them.

 

This is Door No. 4, right?

Do I need to start another thread pointing out that another thread has been added?

 

Idadoor.

 

Jealous that you all aren't part of the cultural and literary phenomenon.

 

I haven't been into fantasy novels since I was a junior-high-school dweeb whose pathetic existence revolved around Dungeons and Dragons and Led Zeppelin. Fortunately, in 9th Grade, I discovered punk rock and Kurt Vonnegut. I left the goofy Anglophilic world of spells and sorcerers behind many, many moons ago.

But, I'm not going to scoff at Harry Potter. Maybe it's not grade-A literature, but it's a BOOK. In a day and age when people are semi-literate at best and people under 20 seem to know little besides video entertainment, Harry Potter is a character in a series of BOOKS. You know, those archaic things with words on paper that people read. They just sit there and READ, for hours at a time!

So I'm no Harry Potter fanatic, but I'll give the whole Potter phenomenon a thumbs-up. Yeah, it's not what I'm into personally, but dammit, people are READING. That's welcome news in these degraded times.

 

Well said. Pretty much ditto for me.

 

I've never been into sci-fi/fantasy stuff. LOTR bored me, never got into the Matrix. But these books are so well written, and indeed such a cultural phenomenon, that I recommend them to anyone.