Harold Bloom on HP

[Amy]

No: HPFGUIDX 11317

I'd be curious as to what Mr. Bloom thinks children should be reading.  The classics?  The classics were required reading in all of my English classes in school...and to be honest, there are some that I have no urge to ever read again, even though I would probably get much more out of them now and actually enjoy them.  As a teen-ager, the last thing I wanted to read was The Iliad - and unfortunantly, I was "required" to read it three times throughout my educational years.  I'm someone who has always enjoyed reading - I'd get my flashlight out at night and hide under the covers reading until all hours of the night.  I also love history and mythology - I always have - and I didn't enjoy reading Homer.  Nor did I enjoy Faulkner or some of the others...it just wasn't what I was interested in reading at the time.

So HP isn't a literary masterpiece (I personally find the books ingenious), kids are reading.  So they get a little older and start reading Steven King...so what...they're reading.  Maybe once they've finished all JKR's books and all of Steven Kings books, they'll pick up something else.

Just my two cents...

Amy


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