Not A Children's Book

[zsenya at yahoo.com]

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Hello and thanks for the welcomes....
> 
> Oh I disagree... they are more than that.  They are family enjoyment 
books - can be read by people, be they 8, or 80.

Yes, I suppose that is a better way of looking at things! I guess what 
I was trying to say, well, I don't really know what I was trying to 
say.  I think the writing style is very much in the style of young 
adult books (Harry Potter was a very unusual boy.  He was a wizard, 
etc. etc.)  I think that since Harry Potter starts out as age 11 in 
the first book, that book is written sort of at an 11 year-old level. 
 And I think that although JK Rowling may write for herself, she is 
also very aware that a large portion of the readers are children and 
that parents will have to read these books to their children (I think 
she mentioned in an interview somewhere reading the last chapters of 
GoF to her daughter) so she will most likely write in a way that will 
interest the children and interest the adults as well.  ARGHHG. I'm 
not explaining this very well, but I guess I am agreeing with you!

 
> I think there are different levels to the books.  You can read the 
book once and get the gist of the story... but then you read it again 
and you pick up on more of the detail... the comedy, and you see how 
something in an early chapter is vital to something later on.


Yes, this is very true, as I have discovered reading each of them 
several times alrady.  What I meant by straightforward is that we 
know that there is good and evil.  We know pretty much who is good 
and evil and we know that the goal is to conquer the evil part 
somehow.  How that is done may be extremely complex.  JK Rowling's 
filing system of character notes and timelines must be amazing!

:)Zsenya