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RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 09, 2021, 09:04:58 PM ---Great minds think alike, obviously. I think the juvenileness.. . juvenality... (this is going to bother me...) the fact that it's more juvenile than the others is a strong point of the first book when you consider that the main cast is only eleven. That's how the wizarding world feels to them; obviously they're not all up in the politics and drama of it until later in the series. But of course reading (or rereading) it as an adult, you lose some of that "growing with the characters" that was a pinnacle of coming of age in a world where Harry Potter existed. And then all that business JK Rowling has going on these days, but that's unrelated to this topic.
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Oh definitely! It's written that way on purpose; the books get more mature and darker as the kids grow up. I didn't start reading them until high school, so I've always been older than the protagonists and preferred the darker, more complex later books. But I love reading the first two books to my class. I've read the first one aloud every year for at least the last ten years, and many years I end up reading the second one to them too after they beg for it. One year they talked me into reading the third, which is where I think the series goes from great to amazing... but surprisingly, I didn't enjoy reading Prisoner of Azkaban aloud as much as the first two. It felt a little too long and a little too dark for a fourth grade read aloud. So yes, I think age of the reader is a factor, as well as the age of the characters.
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: mare on February 09, 2021, 09:11:19 PM ---I did feel the same way about the Hunger Games. By that 3rd book, you can tell she was contracted to write three books.
The reason I said it sucks for the author to have the first one suck the most, is that those people won’t go onto read the rest of them. Like Twilight for me. One and done lol
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I hate when books feel like the author is only writing them because of a contract and not for a love of the story or the chacters.
Morbid curiosity got the better of me. I thought "Well, this can't get any worse! And my Little keeps saying how much she loves them." I was wrong. They got worse. Much worse.
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 09, 2021, 09:15:55 PM ---Oh definitely! It's written that way on purpose; the books get more mature and darker as the kids grow up. I didn't start reading them until high school, so I've always been older than the protagonists and preferred the darker, more complex later books. But I love reading the first two books to my class. I've read the first one aloud every year for at least the last ten years, and many years I end up reading the second one to them too after they beg for it. One year they talked me into reading the third, which is where I think the series goes from great to amazing... but surprisingly, I didn't enjoy reading Prisoner of Azkaban aloud as much as the first two. It felt a little too long and a little too dark for a fourth grade read aloud. So yes, I think age of the reader is a factor, as well as the age of the characters.
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Team dark and depressing!
I think I would stop at the first two and encourage them to read the others on their own. It definitely gets a little dark for nine-year-olds. However, kudos to the one year that convinced you to read the first three aloud.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on February 09, 2021, 09:11:19 PM ---I didn’t enjoy Chamber of Secrets. I found it really boring and hard to finish, almost to the point that I almost stopped reading it altogether. Keep in mind, I was late to the HP train and read them well into the movies which I have to admit is the only way I got through that book. lol sorry.
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RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 09, 2021, 09:19:06 PM ---Team dark and depressing!
I think I would stop at the first two and encourage them to read the others on their own. It definitely gets a little dark for nine-year-olds. However, kudos to the one year that convinced you to read the first three aloud.
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Yep, that was always what I did before that year and what I have done since.
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