![]() The story is funny and extremely imaginative, and you really feel sorry for poor Harry Potter and what he must put up with, and consequently you feel joy for him when he goes to Hogwarts, escaping his terrible life on Privet Drive. The novel is never condescending-Rowling never talks down to the reader. I can't believe I waited until 2007 to read these books. There's some violence, which increases in later novels, but it's mostly G-rated. The first novel is childish inasmuch as it doesn't have sex in it and it doesn't use adult language. ![]() I had held off on reading any of the Harry Potter novels for a long time, assuming both, in my arrogance, that they were much too popular to be of any quality, and that they were written for small children, and therefore held no value to a discerning, literate (read: snobbish) adult. ![]()
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