What would have been different in your life if you never read Harry Potter?

[dumbledore11214]

> Carol responds:
> 
> Interesting topic, Alla! I'm constantly caught up in some book or
> character or historical person or topic that I can't get enough of,
> but I never expected to be pulled into a series of kids' books 
(partly
> the result of a fascination with Snape). <SNIP>

Alla:

Yeah, I am also constantly caught up in one book or another. Funnily 
it was not that unexpected for me to be pulled in the kids' books in 
a sense that many books that I reread do include at least five or 
six books from my childhood. Although I guess Three musketeers do 
not really count as kids' book, more like teens' books and it was 
not written as teens' book even. Anyways, for me the "obsession" 
part was different, since I never in my life was obsessed over any 
book or musical group or movie, anything. I had never been a "fan" 
if that makes sense.

As I said, I have plenty books that I love dearly, but I never felt 
a need to discuss them with anybody over and over and over ... You 
get the gist :)

There is that book though "The demolished man" that I read when I 
was  probably ten or eleven and I cannot count how many times I 
reread it ever since - first in russian, then when I came here in 
english, realising how good the translation was, so I think this 
book counts as close to the obsession as possible, hehehe.




> Carol, at a loss for a new obsession and unwilling to let this one 
go
> even though the series is complete
>


Alla:

To me, well, untill nobody else would want to discuss it on Main, I 
am not planning to let it go completely, but when the discussions 
will stop, well then Harry will be just one of the many books that I 
hold dear, you know?

I am back to reading new books or rereading old favorites, not that 
I ever stopped doing it, heheh.

I actually recently found a forum to discuss Dostoevsky, maybe I 
will be courageous enough to start posting there.