Hmmm. What's your favorite *now*?

[Blair]

No: HPFGUIDX 183004

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lynda Cordova" <sweenlit at ...>
wrote:
> Really? My friends and relatives who have read the series (and
that's a lot
> of people--I'm including workmates, people I see on the bus people I
know
> from various social groups I belong to) have never mentioned that.
My family
> all (as I do) have a 100 page limit on books--there are simply to
many books
> out there to waste time on a book that hasn't caught hold by the 100th
> page--and we all (I'm including my entire extended family--aunts uncles
> cousins and their kids) love the HP books. (And for some strange
reason the
> soundtrack from Oh Brother Where Art thou--not the movie--just the
> soundtrack). I'm not doubting you, really.  My family is a bit
odd--geeks
> all of us--but I think that your assertion is maybe slightly off.  I
don't
> think the series would have made it past the starting gate if the
first half
> of SS were boring.

Oryomai:
It's all the exposition that's the issue.  My friends who start now
are people who have heard about the series before -- they're not
expecting a list of things that Harry needs at Hogwarts.  Exposition
is vital to a book, but it can be hard to get through.

Oryomai
...who has never seen Oh Brother Where Art Thou