Book Review (was Re: Books about Harry Potter)

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Sea Change" <nakedkali at y...> 
wrote:
> 
>  imamommy said :
>  I was wondering if anyone out there had read it (or 
> > written it!) and if you thought it was any good.  
> 
> 
> Sea Change responds:
> 
> My roommate Peirigill has a philosophy degree.  He looked at it in 
the
> bookstore and was able to dismiss it as elementary, unoriginal, and
> uninteresting in short order.  He's inclined to suffer fools, so he 
is
> not likely to make a judgement like that unless he was *very* sure.
> 
> 
> Sea Change,  who also tried to read it in the library, but who has a
> science background instead of a humanties one and found it 
impenetrable.

imamommy:

As it turns out, my mother bought me the book (Harry Potter and 
Philosophy) for Christmas.  Since I got it free, and it was already 
inscribed (my mom inscribes all books, even the ones she buys for 
herself) I decided to go ahead and read it.  

Most of the book was, in fact, very basic.  I am not formally 
disciplined in philosophy, but a lot of it gave me a "well, duh" kind 
of reaction.  Only the last few articles, one I think in the 
Slytherin section and some of the ones in the Ravenclaw section, 
prompted any serious additional thought on my part.

I would recommend "Harry Potter and Philosophy" for those with very 
little experience in philosophy who are Potterheads.  It seems the 
book was written with almost a high school philosophy class in mind 
(if only Harry Potter were allowed in school) and any of you with 
teens who enjoy the HP series might consider it for them, but don't 
pay to get it for your own selves.  

imamommy