Quaint Britishness: "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré


(original review, 1999)

One of the main things that Harry Potter has taught me is that people who dismiss the series out of hand and people who laud it as the best thing since sliced bread are equally annoying. People who dismiss it tend to be those who are overly eager to demonstrate how terribly mature they are, and end up proving the very opposite. And I can't help thinking that people who laud it as literally the best thing ever do so because they've never read anything else or any of the other hundreds of franchises that essentially tell the same (rather tired) story, often in a more inventive way.

 

 

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