HP
No, it isn’t hate. But, the huge success of the Harry Potter series has always made me wonder what people want from a book. Why even grown-ups are willing to fill days of their lives with wooden prose, while there are so many books out there offering so much more.
Critic Robert McCrum is asking that question as well.
[T]ry reading her aloud to an eight-year-old and you quickly discover that her prose is deadly – automatic writing, over-literal description and lazy dialogue. Perhaps The Half-Blood Prince will prove me wrong, but the series so far does not hold out much hope.
[x]#1309 fan zondag 10 juli 2005 @ 23:59:23
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4 kommentaren
eliane op 11 juli 2005 @ 23:59:24
Je hebt een f teveel…
eamelje.net op 12 juli 2005 @ 11:34:54
@Ruben: do you really think grown-up and mature readers can’t find better adventure stories than hyped up kiddy books like Harry Potter’s? Mind you, I am not talking about what children read, it is the mature tax paying people who are allowed to vote that are worrying me.
@ Eliane: ffanks
cockie op 12 juli 2005 @ 23:13:18
‘Ffanks’ is erg grappig, want ik schoot ervan in de lach.
Ruben op 11 juli 2005 @ 21:00:26
Common people want a story from a book and they don’t knitpick over style issues. I really don’t understand why critics refuse to accept that as a given fact.
Who cares about lazy dialogue or plain characters if the story takes you to the edge of your seat? Yes, critics do, and, admittedly, I do, but the regular reader rightfully doesn’t.
You state there are so many books out there offering so much more. But when it comes to creating an adventurous world and captivating the average reader’s imagination, I’m afraid there aren’t that many better alternatives.