How sad that he can't enjoy a little fantasy now and then. He almost lost my sympathy altogether with anti-Tolkien ranting, but it's just sad that he can't even enjoy a bit of Narnia without thinking it's endlessly silly.
I will studiously avoid all reviews to not be spoiled. I know it's worth it without reading any silly reviews. Being the newbie librarian, I get review journals well past their original usefulness anyway.
Yes, the anti-fantasy rant he went on was off-putting to me as well. I fall in the "having read everything, including Tolstoy and Jane Austen". I read the last two thirds of War and Peace in two days (partly because I had put it off all summer and had a class on immediately coming back from summer vacation, and partly because I couldn't put it down). I definitely have time for fantasy and magic.
a lot of people don't seem to be able to enjoy a bit of Narnia, which I find sad, and it is a point well taken that one should be able to enjoy HP in the same way. I just liked the quotation about good sportsmanship. There is a big long discussion about the article going on on the Childlit listserv right now (and about Harry Potter in general!)
re the reviews... the same damn spoiler is in the BCCB review, but it otherwise melted my heart by calling Telemakos "kingly." (gosh, I can't even type it without smiling.)
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I will studiously avoid all reviews to not be spoiled. I know it's worth it without reading any silly reviews. Being the newbie librarian, I get review journals well past their original usefulness anyway.
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re the reviews... the same damn spoiler is in the BCCB review, but it otherwise melted my heart by calling Telemakos "kingly." (gosh, I can't even type it without smiling.)