Newbie, difficulty getting into OoP

[lagattalucianese]

No: HPFGUIDX 146676

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry" <ladyluck41 at y...> wrote:
>
> Hi all, 
> 
> Thanks to my daughter's urgings, I finally started reading the HP 
> series and I am now starting Book 5...I read 1-4 in 2 weeks as I 
> could not put them down.  I am finding, however, that I am having 
> a difficult time getting into this book...I wonder why.  Any 
> suggestions?
> 
> "ladyluck41"
>
La Gatta Lucianese:

I have no idea. It ties with _Prisoner of Azkaban_ as my favorite HP, 
bcause of the background on Sirius and his family (I have a mother 
like that, so I can relate), the Umbridge-you-love-to-hate (who can 
resist that bit where the Terrible Twins celebrate her first day as 
headmistress), and all the backstory on Snape. I adored the DA classes 
and Dumbledore's grand exit.

The first two books really are children's books--wonderful children's 
books, but children's books. I never really got off on _Goblet of 
Fire_, I think because I find competitive sports such a dead bore, 
ditto teenage angst, and _Half-Blood Prince_, though it has many 
wonderful moments, has serious structural flaws (like the back end 
sort of fell off the loading dock).