Friday, 20 July 2007
Pottermania
Good piece on Todd Swift's blog, Eyewear, about the whole Harry Potter brouhaha. I've not read any of the books, and consequently don't have any strong opinions on their literary merits, but I have been getting progressively more hacked off hearing a massive exercise in marketing being justified in terms of 'preserving the magic for children'.
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harry potter... read em all.... except the latest... they're ok.. not very well written, with shallow stereotypical characters, and very derivative... but ok... i like the first book, if only because it got quite a few kids interested in reading again... which has to be a good thing... as far as kids books are concerned, Anthony Horowitz, Phillip Pullman and Phillip Reeve are head and shoulders above JK.....but if she can get kids interested enough to pick up a book, good... but lets be honest, the whole thing is now a big bucks exercise...
Hooray! Another human being exists who has not read any Harry Potter! And I had thought I was the only one left.
Alas, I was rejected for the bird anthology. You?
Sorry to hear that, LouAnn. Not heard anything at all myself. Not got any great hopes though - I'd guess they got a pretty huge bag of submissions for a small chapbook.
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