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| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
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| Your First Time Reading Harry Potter |
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| POSTED Monday , January 09, 2006 04:20:06 PM |
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What was your first experience of reading the Harry Potter books? And what drove you to do so?
I started reading the series a short while before the release of OotP. I'll be the first to admit that to begin with I turned down the books due to lack of interest and the thought that they were just 'kid's books'. My dad bought books 1-5 and was enjoying them loads, and he was 57 at the time. Yet I remained unpersuaded; i'd stick with The Lord of the Rings, and he could read Harry Potter all he wanted
As the whole bell call for OotP's release was approaching, I took a quick visit to the library during a boringly large free period between college classes. I saw one of the Harry Potter books (can't remember which) propped up on a display stand sticking out from the rest of the books, and thought "what the hey, i've got nothing better to do" and so picked it up and started reading. But i'd already seen the first two movies, and because OotP was looming near, PoA seemed to me a better place to start. My reasoning being that i'd be more likely to finish GoF before OotP came out I put which ever book it was back down and grabbed PoA from the shelf and started that one instead. Surfice to say I couldn't believe I hadn't read them sooner, and gave full apologies to my dad too
I remember reading Aunt Marge being blown up, and Harry seeing the Grim, and what was good for me was that I didn't really need to have read PS and CoS beforehand. It filled me in on Harry's history and I was able to plunge straight into this book. When I got home I went straight for my dad's books, fished out PoA and continued from where i'd left off in the library. My timing was perfect, i went thorough PoA, then GoF, and without much delay OotP was released. I'd actually gone past my dad at this point, he hadn't even started GoF, and he didn't want to buy OotP until he came to it himself. But i'd caught the Harry Potter bug and so bought OotP myself because I wasn't prepared to wait for him to do so It wasn't until after OotP that I went back and read PS and CoS.
For a long time PoA was my favourite in the series, as this was what started me off on my real Harry Potter experience, and also because I loved Lupin's character. This kinda changed though on my second or so reading of GoF, which took the favourite spot, and Lupin got replaced by Dumbledore
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| I started reading the series in December of 2001, shortly after the first movie came out. My mom and her boyfriend and I had seen the movie version of SS right around when it came out, and I had naturally loved it, but never picked up any of the books. Then, Christmas morning of that year, I was going through my stocking and inside found a pocket edition of SS. I read it and was immediately captivated by the series and began pickiing up the others wherever I managed to find them, and now with the exception of SS and PoA, which are mass-market paperback and Mary GrandPre cover paperback respectively, I have hardcover editions of every single book.
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gowing up in a concervative house, i was told that things like harry potter were of the devil. so i went on with life, shunning the books because i thought they were stupid.
one day i went to my best friends house, and she was wathching philiosophers stone. i coulndnt look away from the tv. so i asked her to borrow me the book, and i have been hooked ever since, i should say obsessed.
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I dont remember when i started readijng them, it was at least two to three years before the film, i know that much, i kept saying to myself Ive got to get back into reading cos i use to read a hell of a lot, and my sister suggested i read The Philosophers stone, i did, and loved it, then i read the chamber of secrets which took me a while to get throught cos at that time some of the chapters started getting rather lengthy compared to the previous one so it took me a fair while, but it picked up not long afterwards and after that book I went onto Pirsoner of azkaban and that was it, there was no turning back, i'd read the first four books before the first film came out,, (I think, dont shout at me if the first film came out before book four,) i believe it was about 1997 - 1999 when i read the first four books over and over and over, many a time, number three had me hooked on harry potter. Sad i know, but you should have seen some of the other things i was reading at the time.
Like Alfred Hitchcocks three investigator series lol, great books but nowhere near as addictive as harry potter
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I picked up a copy of Sorceror's Stone when it was just starting out. I found it engaging and entertaining, and a nice deep mythology. So, my first experience led me to read the others one after another.
My first impressions were that Rowling was a good narrative author, had good grasp of characters and was also good at describing things without getting into Anne Rice-style minutiae. In other words, fast read, and not tedious. Good dashes of humor, of course.
((In fact, other than Lestat, I've put down every Anne Rice book I've ever read, and never finished them))
Her later books certainly built on the others. Often I think some of the characters lately are a bit over-the-top, but it doesn't lessen my enjoyment of the series.
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I think this has been done a few times, but what the heck. I wanna start by saying that I don't know HOW a person could hate watching the first harry potter movie, and then loved the third, without seeing the second. I know I seem to be in the minority, but three was just so bad. And thanks to the first two, I didn't need to read the actual books to pretty far into my HP life. ANYWAY, back on topic.
I REFUSED to get into the whole Harry Potter thing. In fact, I remember the day I saw the teaser poster for SS of an owl flying with Harry's letter at the theaters and thinking "My god, the book hasn't even been out that long! WHY do we need another stupid little kid's movie?" So I skipped that one. Then one day about 8 months later, my nephew was watching it on like HBO or DvD or something, and I sat and watched it with him. Course, I started at the wizzard chess scene, so I didn't even get that much of it, but I was hooked. Went out that day and bought the movie. LOVED it. Then only a few months later, CoS came out, and I ran out opening day (Thanksgiving day at least, maybe not opening, but it was on thanksgiving). I didn't know anything about what was coming and was just amazed every second of that movie. Even then I was asking the young girl next to me who'd read them all a hundred times by that point, "So is the fact that Harry's wand related to Voldemorts of significance?" I started all my theorizing right then and there. CoS BLEW me away. But saddly my excitement stopped there. It wasn't until OotP was out for about a month, and I was reading something online. It was a scene from the book. "'Harry, Dumbledore said, 'it is time I tell you what I should have told you five years ago.'" I was like WHAT IS IT!?!?!? So I rushed out and bought the book. Read it thinking "Eh, its only two books between the movie and this book, I'm sure I'll pick it all up". And here I am faced with beautiful and colorful characters like Remus Lupin and Sirius Black, hearing about Cedric Diggory, and some guy named Wormtail. Didn't understand anything, and still loved every second of it (Of course I was a little upset that the part I bought the book for was the very end). So after that I bought PoA and GoF. Read through them in two weeks, and then re-read OotP. Then I bought SS and CoS and read those... then read the other three again. I've gone through those 5 about 7 times each. But I think GoF is about 9 times, and OotP at about 11. This lead me to the midnight release of HBP and I read that twice in three days. I've read the entire series once again since then. Love em, I can't help it. Oh, and Gryffindor's headstone is a horcrux.
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