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Originally posted by AnimagusPadfoot@Mar 7 2004, 08:21 AM
What the author of the article is forgetting is what once was a little known series of books written by J R R Tolkien, that generations of childern have discovered at around age 13 to 18. That series of books has now produced the richest trilogy of movies known to man, the gross now stands around 3 billion US dallors. The original readers of LOTR flocked to the theater decades after writing "Frodo Lives" in the subway walls on NYC in the 1960's and 1970's. I should know. I read Professor Tolkein's Hobbit in the Sixth grade in 1973 at age 12 and soon followed it with LOTR.
Good books...no great books don't lose their readers, because the reader and book are old friends. The book is taken off the shelf every so often and opened then reread with as much wonder and delight as the first time, sometimes more for now child understands more and sees more.
No this article's author needs to talk the older LOTR fans.
Oh by the way I, at age 43, am a Harry Potter fan. I discovered movies first, then a friend gave me the box set of the books for Christmas 2002. Within a week I had read all four books. I have enjoyed rereading them several times as I have the OotP. So bluntly speaking a good book is a good book no matter what your age.
I didnt start reading the HP series until I was 31 and I love the books and I know I wont change my opinion. If I like what an author writes I usually like all of their books. I look forward to the last 2 books in this series and any other book the JK decides to write. 