"Harry Potter and the Childish Adult" AS Byatt's take on HP and his adult fans

[jdr0918]

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<<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" wrote: Excuse me while 
I roll my eyes with childish extravagance...Byatt's main complaint 
about Rowling seems to be that she doesn't fantasize about 
some "numinous" connection with primordial forces that she seems to 
think is a requirement of 'fantasy' authors.  It's precisely her 
refusal to write that kind of claptrap and engage with the world as 
we live in it, that I love about Rowling...That was a heck of a lot 
closer to Georgette Heyer than Rowling is.  Grrrrrr....>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says:

Don't read this article, it'll give you excess stomach acid. Besides, 
the Potter Cycle (the Potterdammerung?) is not fantasy, it's kid 
adventure. Magic is not the theme, it's a series of running gags.

Byatt has also missed the point of Georgette Heyer, whom I find sharp 
and witty; she was no Barbara Cartland, but rather a gin-swilling, 
chain-smoking Jane Austen, just as JKR, the brisk and pragmatic Brit, 
is the polar opposite of your basic moody, mystical, reclusive Anne 
Rice.

--JDR (breaking off in mid-thought to go find the Stephen King 
review: the guy on the radio hints of stormclouds...)