B&N Chat

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 4324

Hi --

I agree with Peg that it's great for JKR to be so patient with her young
fans!  I have no complaint with that.  Like Heidi though, I would like
to see a chat for adult fans only.  And, it would have been nice if the
sponsors of the chats had indicated up-front that they were geared to
young kids or only taking questions from younger readers.  It's again a
case where the adult fans are invisible in a sense (IMO anyway).  I
suppose, in fairness, that it might not have occurred to any of these
sponsors that there would be scads of questions submitted by adults.
Like Heidi, I'm also not interested in trying to elicit plot revelations
for the later books.  I would have just preferred to see 3-4 substantive
questions answered in each interview.  I don't think that would have
detracted too much from the enjoyment for the younger fans & would have
made all of us much happier.

> Well we know that she is writing them for herself but I would love to
> see book five be more targeted for adult readers (and watch the NY
> Times squirm under pressure!).
>
Ah . . . a man after my own heart!  Thanks Scott!

I did note that Scholastic seems to have lost their battle to have the
newly-released paperback version of CoS billed as a book for both adults
and children.  It's only on the NY Times childrens' paperback list.  I
really should just quit reading that list altogether . . . . it only
pisses me off.

Penny


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