Adult readers who are dismissive about Harry Potter

[annemehr]

> On 2004-01-04 11:24, Jennifer Piersol wrote:
> 
> >[...] Oh, Melanie, I totally sympathize with you on that one!  I'm also
> >a member of a reading group, and right around our conception (I think
> >it was our 4th or 5th meeting about 4 years ago), I chose SS as my
> >book-of-the-month.  One of the "ladies" in the group, when asked her
> >opinions of it, actually said, "Oh.  I didn't read it.  I don't read
> >children's books," in this snooty, "I'm grown-up, pity you're not"
> >voice.<snip>

Pshemekan:
> I found very appropriate quote from C. S. Lewis about such behaviour:
> 
> When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been
ashamed 
> if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. 
> When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of 
> childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Annemehr:
Ooooooo!  That quote would go very well on the main list homepage, if
the mods were so inclined and could find room for it!

That reminds me of something else he wrote, though I can't hunt for it
right now.  To paraphrase, he said that any book not worth reading at
[age] fifty would not be worth reading at ten.

Annemehr
who has too many C.S. Lewis books to be leafing through just now