[HPforGrownups] Re: CoS Is The Least Favorite HP Book. Why?

[WarMaster]

No: HPFGUIDX 27680

I know this is an old topic and I enjoy reading everyone's insightful
analysis of the differences between the HP books.

My reason for having CoS as my least favorite book is because I almost got
sick reading it aloud to my kids when we first got it.  The incident with
Ron vomiting slugs still makes me queasy. :P

Gilderoy Lockhart put another bad taste in my mouth.  Reading his dialogue
aloud without putting the book down and saying, "Oh, puhleeze"  was very
hard.

Beverly--(who just deleted about 400 HP4GU messages because she knew she
would never be able to read them all and, as a result, is severely out of
the loop.)
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>> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., justanopinion2001 at h... wrote:
>> > According to the HP Grownups polls, CoS is unquestionably the
>least
>> > favorite of the four books among people on this list.  Out of 400
>> > responses, only 5% picked CoS as their favorite out of the HP
>> series
 Out of 251 votes for least favorite book, CoS
>> was
>> > chosen as least favorite by 70%.
>> >
>> > Let's talk about this.  What exactly is it that causes so many
>> people
>> > not to like CoS?  Is it the characterization, the ending, the
>plot,
>> > something else?  Can anyone put their finger on it?  And if you
>can
>> > identify a gripe about CoS, can you think of a way to fix it?
>> >
>> > Laura (who owns 2 dog-eared copies each of PoA, GoF, PS/SS, but
>> only
>> > one practically new copy of CoS)
>