Semi-Colons & John Grisham

[Joywitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 2058

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Susan McGee" <Schlobin at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, coriolan at w... wrote:
> > I'm sure we all know folks who - without having read any of the 
> > books - dismiss the Harry Potter series as children books. (A 
> Muggles 
> > co-worker told me that she "knew" that Harry Potter was written 
at 
> a 
> > first-grade level so American children can read the story without 
> > help). Meanwhile, my adult friends demonstrate their *gravitas* 
by 
> > reading the ouevre of John Grisham, Patricia Cornwall and Tom 
> Clancy.
> > 
> 
> I know no one who reads John Grisham, Patricia Cornwall or Tom 
> Clancy...it was somewhat exciting for me to be au courant with 
> popular culture through reading HP...
> 
> my friends are reading Gecko Tails and Blanche Cook's bio of 
Eleanor 
> Roosevelt (Vol II).......

Susan, I dont mean to offend, but I find the above remark uncalled 
for.  The person you responded to was expressing anger at people who 
put down HP books for their supposed questionable literary merit when 
their reading tastes consist of books with clearly questionable 
literary merit.  This, IMHO, is reasonable - those people are being 
hypocritical.  Your comment, however, was a somewhat snobby put-down 
of all people (whether hypocrits or not) who happen to like to read 
books with clearly questionable literary merit.  This is unfair; 
people who read Grisham, etc. arent inferior to your friends who read 
biographies. Sorry to go off on a rant here, but I hate snobbery, and 
yes I sometimes read books with clearly questionable literary merit, 
and other times I even read biographies.

-- Joywitch