Adult readers who are dismissive about Harry Potter

[ladyramkin2000]

Iggy suggested I should recommend a short Dickens book. Difficult, as 
Dickens doesn't really do short.  The shortest one, apart from the 
unfinished Edwin Drood is probably Hard Times, a book I rather 
dislike myself, so I wont urge it on Iggy.  Apart from that, there is 
always A Christmas Carol, if you haven't already over-dosed on that.
Or you could try reading extracts from the novels such as the Trial 
Scene from Pickwick or the Crummles sections from Nickleby, to see if 
you would like to read the whole book. They are BIG books and not 
particularly easy reading, but the rewards are enormous.
Please recommend any book you think I would either like or hate - 
don't care which, and I promise I'll give it a go.  I'm still trying 
to like Philip Pullman.  I acknowledge the excellence of his writing, 
but simply hate the worlds he has created.  The chapters set in the 
world of the dead plunged me into depression.  If I have to meet 
Death, which I suppose we all will one day, please let him be Terry 
Pratchett's
 version, not Pullmans!
Sylvia