Progression of the books

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 99424

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "David Burgess" <burgess at c...> 
wrote:

Dave:
>> From a pure mass perspective, GoF would have been impossible for 
most
> children to read.  I mean, I started it when it came in at 2PM on
> Saturday, and finished it at 5PM on Sunday, and I read for a 
living -
> there's no way a 10 or 11 year old kid is going to sit down and 
read an
> 1100 page book in one sitting.  


Geoff:
But why should you expect folk to read it at one sitting? I've just 
restarted reading the whole cycle and I've got to about Chapter 8 in 
PS and am managing to find time to read perhaps one chapter a day. So 
i'm going to be some little while yet on this first book. Even when I 
first bought OOTP last year, it took me abou four days to get through.


Dave:
> I'm even daunted from starting it again,
> just because I don't have 27 hours to grind through it again.  Now, 
I know
> a lot did and I understand how they did it, but if you are writing a
> children's book, you aren't going to do it 1100 pages at a time.

Geoff:
On the question of younger children reading the later books, which 
was raised in a recent post on this thread, one of the families in my 
church is, like me, well into HP. Their youngest child, a girl of 8, 
got through OOTP quite safely in a few days and was able to talk 
about it quite happily and enjoy the story.