Potterday

[sartorias]

How many people over the world are buried in their Potter book right now? Nothing like this in my experience (blah, blah, we all know that--nothing like it in anyone's experience) except maybe the sense of community and mutual excitement that we felt when the first Tolkien Society picnics happened, and we all came in costume and discussed the

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[sartorias]

Aha, she sticks to her promise, then. Well, I do look forward to reading it. Anyway, most definitely that craptastic week required some serious reward time.

I spoke to some kids this morning who attended their local party (in CT) and had a splendid time!

[sartorias]

The reactions are already interesting...I don't think there's any better way to see the amazing variety of reader spectrum!

[ex_greythist387]

Potter is one of the few ways in which internet geekery and the live kind cross, isn't it? I too had rather solitary reading experiences, in terms of quantity as well as type of book. Now one can feel Not Alone no matter what one likes, almost (reading or otherwise), if one has 'net access.

A little luddite part of my brain thinks that can be bad (surely a few habits and inclinations in the human psyche ought to feel alone, excluded, squashed down), but since 1996ish it's been true, I think.

[sartorias]

Yeah...finding others to share a book fandom is a feature to me--I too was one of those isolated people, and I don't remember that fondly. I do remember the incredibly flush of joy in finding other Tolkien lovers, and I imagine HP fandom has to feel that way as well.

Not in our lifetime

[carbonelle]

But everyone went this mad for Dickins, in his day. Does that mean kids will be having to analyze and write term papers on the Potter books a generation or two down the line? Feh.

Re: Not in our lifetime

[sartorias]

I dunno if they will make it into that sort of status. LOTR seems to have made the shift--but far more popular books at their time haven't--like TRILBY or the works of Eleanor Glynn or Leslie Whyte.