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  Where's the "Harry Potter Haters" group?

  Is there one? I want to join it!
  I didn't hate the first 4 books, (I actually liked Goblet of Fire), but I hated the last 3! No plot, unlikeable characters.... blech! And yet, for some reason, I read them! However, I refuse to put them on my shelf!

  BookSnake started this discussion 6 months ago. ( reply )

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  Bodrugan 

  Heh! I don't hate the Harry Potter books; I'm just not very interested in them. I had to take the three I have off my shelf because I was annoyed that practically every item in "what people are saying about your books" was about Harry Potter. I also took off The Da Vinci Code because I don't give two hoots about it either. There are several others that show up too often, in my opinion, and I have a special tag for them I call "on mainstream radar" while I contemplate whether I will eventually remove them from my shelf, too. Some are actually very good books (some are even favorites of mine), but I get tired of the same old-same old comments...it's almost as if a large segment of Shelfarians who read or want to read the same books as everyone else drown out comments about less-hyped books. I'm not sure what else I can do besides removing these constant repeaters. Any ideas?

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    BookSnake 

    Yup. I've had the same kind of thought. I have refused to put The Da Vinci Code on my shelf for the exact same reason.
    I'd kind of like to see the next tier in popular books in case I'm missing any treasures out there that are buried under the Potter Da Vinci avalanche! Can we somehow ask Shelfari to sort of roll off the top books after they've held the spot for a while so that other books can get some attention?

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  Bodrugan 

  Yes, I wish that there would be something Shelfari could do about separating out the Potter mavens from more diverse readers.
  
  For some reason the Potter books never really clicked with me: I always say it's because they didn't appeal to my kids -- my sons were too old when the first book came out and they weren't interested; and I didn't have grandchildren yet, but if I did I might have followed the Potter phenomenon more closely.
  
  I read the first two books and thought they were okay but nothing spectacular, so I was quite astounded when people went loco over each subsequent book in the series. What puzzled and amused me, at first, was how many adults are as nutty about the books as the kids are. I'm still not sure that I understand, but I do know that I love many books I read when I was a kid and I still reread them. However, I can't think of any set of books -- or even one stand-alone book -- that were popular when I was young that had as much mainstream appeal as Harry Potter.

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    Mrs_Jack_Sparrow 

    Oi!!!!! I love harry potter and i love the third one cause i love sirius black!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  Marti  

  I like HP...but that f'ing wandering around in the woods in the last book could have compeltely been cut out.
  
  Those are hours of my life I'll never get back...reading about wandering around in the woods...COME ON!

  posted 4 months ago. ( reply )

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