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Am I the ONLY person on the face of this planet that isn't madly in love with Harry Potter?? Seriously. I just do NOT get the appeal. All my friends online are fans on some level/degree of insanity, my sister and her hubby are into it, my uptight aunt is all yaysters about it, hell, I couldn't even sit at a restaurant yesterday without taking

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LOL... thank God. I'm not alone! I didn't even read the first book--I read the first few pages and was completely unimpressed, too. Granted, maybe that's unfair, but I have this unofficial rule that if a book doesn't grab me with its first sentence, I'm probably not going to read it. Usually I give it a few pages just to be fair, and sometimes thru the first chapter, but it seriously failed to hook me.

My sister dragged us all to the first movie when it came out, and I was leery about that as well, but figured I'd give it a try since I love movies. No banana there, either. My brother's in the same boat, and he said the second movie was better than the first (he accidentally saw it at a friend's house--long story... lol), but I still have NO desire to see or read any of it.

Weird? Well, I AM weird ;) But you're not, so I guess I feel a little better!

I don't want to piss off any fanatical fans, or even any of my dear friends... I'm just in a mood where I feel like I could scream anyway and coming into LJ and seeing everyone squealing about their new books just brought it all to a head. I'll have to edit my post and make sure no one thinks I'm trying to offend them. It's just one of those things, I guess.

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To be fair, it does improve once they get to Hogwarts, but I guess I was expecting a lot better. I knew it's a kid's series, but I was expecting it to be really amazing, and hold obvious appeal for adults as well.

It's so hard to say this without offending someone :P But (just from my own experience) it was definitely the sort of book I read and enjoyed as a young child, but couldn't really get into now. No offense to the millions of adults who do get something out of HP of course! But I found myself reading a chapter on a boy being made to live under the stairs by a family of complete caricatures, and it just held no interest for me

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YES! That's exactly it. I just remember being a bit confused because it seemed so targeted at kids and I'm sorry--much as I love magical, mystical, fantastical stories, I was bored. Seemed incredibly juvenile to me and I couldn't figure out what I was missing. And, again, treading on thin ice here because you're talking to one of the biggest goober-brains in the world--I'm the doofiest dork around these parts.... and I thought the storylines/writing was a bit silly. ME!! ME!!!

Imagine how I felt to be thinking something fun and silly was uninteresting--it was like the world had shifted into a parallel universe :O

I think I was expecting a whole lot more as well and I was just kind of like, oh... this is the big deal? Huh.

But so many adults love it and clearly there's a reason for this. It's just tough to be around the majority of my friends who are right in the zone with me in every other fandom and all I can do is stare blankly and scratch my head when they talk about HP.

*glomps you* lol

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And a lot of my flist are doing seperate entries for every few chapters they read *screams*

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Oooooohhhhhh, sweetie!!! I feel your pain, lol. You're more than welcome to come and vent to your heart's content right here ;)

PS: One good thing? All this frustration is encouraging me to want to caption pictures.

PPS: On second thought, maybe that's not such a good thing.