Deadly hollows JKR's "FAVORITE BOOK" of the series!.

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 164726

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...>
wrote:
>
> 
> There is no disputing matters of taste, but I loved HBP. In that
> regard I don't think I'm an oddball (in other respects maybe but not
> in that one). In the most sincere sort of opinion poll possible, the
> sort where you vote with your dollars, a case could made that HBP has
> been enjoyed by more people than any book since Gutenberg invented his
> press 550 years ago; after all, nobody really enjoys reading the Bible
> or The Quotations Of Chairman Mao.
> 

I have no intentions of reading Mao but I do enjoy reading the Bible
and I am hardly the only one!

I don't think you can judge the popularity of the books in the series
by looking at sales for each one. People like myself who came to the
series late may well have started by reading borrowed copies of the
available books and then, once their appetites were whetted, started
buying the subsequent books as they were released. That is exactly
what happened to me except that the first four books were given to me
as a Christmas gift so I have contributed equally to the sales of each
novel. The sales of HBP probably say a lot about how popular the
series has become but little about how popular HBP is compared to the
others.

In my case I find the notion odd even though I understand that rating
the installments is something that many like to do. The series is a
whole to me, I don't judge individual books and rate them for quality
or anything else. DH will be the deciding factor in how I ultimately
rate the whole edifice but I doubt that I will ever have a favorite
book in the series. In the end it will be either satisfying or
unsatisfying and I don't think the author's satisfaction with the
final book says anything at all about how I will ultimately view the
whole. I can be a harsher critic than she is, I have no doubt of that.
I just try to reign myself in when I post here!

Ken ;-)