OOP: Disappointing

[joanne0012]

No: HPFGUIDX 66575

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, srsiriusblack at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 7/1/2003 3:28:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
fire_fly107 at h... writes:
> 
> > Yes, the writing is simple and there's not a lot of variety in the 
> > descriptions, but the one thing many adults forget when the read 
> > Harry Potter (esp. more recent ones where the themes are more mature) 
> > that these are childrens books. They were originally meant to appeal 
> > to people around the age of 12. 

> these books are not adult books. We, as adults have just happened to fall in 
love with her stories. If you read them as I do, you replace 'said' with different 
words, or rearrange her writing a bit. 'Said' is over used but I doubt that 
children think this. It makes it easier for them to read. 
> 
> -Snuffles from behind the veil

First of all, Rowling has never specified an age group for the books and was 
dismayed by the Times' invention of the children's best-seller list to 
accommodate Harry.  Indeed, she's only said that she writes for herself, and 
has specified that her humor is what she herself enjoys and is not specifically 
aimed at kids.

Recommending the overuse of "said" in lieu of the many useulf and 
fundamental alternatives so that the book is "easier to read," especially for a 
12-year-old, reminds me of the rationale that Levine, the editor at Scholatsic, 
used when Bowdlerizing the title and contents of HP and the Philosopher's 
Stone.