[HPforGrownups] More books (was Re: Puttingthe Elder Wand at risk? )

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 176158

Sharon Hayes wrote:

> Whenever I finish reading a HP book I always wonder what else there is
> to read that is as good.  Now that the series is finished, what could I
> possibly read that will be up to the same standard??? 

*chuckle*  I remember feeling the exact same way about THE LORD
OF THE RINGS ... and by that time I had read many, many books. 
For a while the solution was to read LotR over and over and
over...

> I have read some other books over the years, but most of
> them I never get past the first couple of chapters. Those that I do
> make it through to the end, are usually pretty good, but not exceptional.
> Strange but I have tried other books in the fantasy genre and find them
> awfully tedious.

Have you tried the Diane Duane Wizard series that begins with SO
YOU WANT TO BE A WIZARD?  I find it interesting to compare these
with HP because they're also about young people learning to use
magic, and involve serious moral choices, but Duane goes in very
different directions with it.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>