Potter mania

By Stacy Vogel ( Contact ) March 31, 2008 - 4:59 p.m.

Last night, I finally joined the bandwagon.

I cracked open the first Harry Potter book.

I've been meaning to read the Harry Potter books for years now; I'd just never gotten around to it. (Plus I had this vague notion that by not reading the books, I was somehow being hip, because everyone else in the universe, it seemed, was reading them.)

But I have to say, I was hooked pretty much from the first sentence: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."

What a great opening! I love books that draw you right into the story like that. Also, I'd forgotten how fun it can be to read a young adult novel. Everything is straightforward: the words, the sentences, the action. Yet the imagery paints a clearer picture for you than any high-falutin extended metaphor could.

I'm about 100 pages in now. So I guess I am officially, as my friend Beth Wheelock would say, "one of them." No going back now.

twerp13
Apr 1, 2008 at 12:07 p.m.
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Welcome to the club. I first read Harry Potter after I helped my cousin at his costume shop one year. Everyone kept coming in to find a costume that looked like one of the characters. I however had no clue what they were talking about ! So I went to the library and checked out the first book and like you said I was hooked.

Hapy reading.

bwheelock
Mar 31, 2008 at 6:08 p.m.
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I think I would actually chant, "One of us! One of us!" :)

I'm trying to think of an obscure first book reference that won't be giving anything away. But I'll just say that I'm proud of you. Mwuahaha.

rstricker
Mar 31, 2008 at 5:37 p.m.
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Mwah-ha-ha!
We have you now!

Signed,
Another Potter Fan

Irish_Mafia78
Mar 31, 2008 at 5:18 p.m.
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This is a really great series and I hope you enjoy it!

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