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The Harry Potter Series

JK Rowling

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The Harry Potter Series J.K. Rowling "I found out about it and decided I had an inclination to start reading it, because it was everywhere, I couldn't avoid it. I got so sick of hearing about it that I decided I'd give it a shot and see if it was, you know, interesting and worthwhile in any of the ways I was hearing it might be. It puts the fantasy world that so many of us, even beyond childhood, continue to want to inhabit as we live in this sort of banal real world into a real frame. What I liked most about it is the degree to which it holds your interest and attention. I'm not sure I would say that I like most a feeling of deep profound connection with the characters. I have some ambivalence about the idea of having a child of mine down the road read them, because even though they're so gripping and so sort of redeeming and, you know, plenty of good versus evil and good being many-sided that eventually kind of triumphing - and I'm sure it will eventually triumph in some way - there's nothing wrong with that. There's certainly ethnic diversity and gender diversity in the books. In the end, it seems to me rather male, white-male centric, surprisingly so, given that it's written by a woman, especially. I think what makes the books very appealing is that the characters are relatively - fairly extremely well developed, even though it's just a book about wizardry and silliness. I would give it four stars out of five because if I had to rate the Harry Potter series, I could not deny in any way its appeal to me and to whole masses of folks."