New Harry Potter book

[Henry Musikar]

A lotta these kids have read Tolkien. It's not that these Harry Potter books 
are bad, but what scares me is the general dislike of older books and 
movies. Lotta gen-nexts don't like black and white movies. Looks to me like 
impatience, i.e. get on with the good stuff/exposition/melody/plot, a la 
Rossini.


>From: Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com>
>To: Paul Mackin <pmackin at clark.net>
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: New Harry Potter book
>Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 07:10:30 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Howdy
>
>J K Rowling  --  more power to her!  I hope she has a terrific
>financial deal with her publisher.  Let's see, if every living person
>gives her a nickel because they like something she's written, then she
>can anticipate a total take of, of 250 million bucks,plus or minus.
>Sounds about right, doesn't it?   The new title, evidently, is "Harry
>Potter & The Goblet of Fire", which is splendid, isn't it?  Oh for the
>days of our youth, when we read Tolkein and loved it.
>
>Wistful sigh...
>Mark
>
>
>
>--- Paul Mackin <pmackin at clark.net> wrote:
> > Couldn't believe it when I read in the  morning Washington Post that
> > the
> > new Harry Potter book has 752 pages, only 8 fewer than Gravity's
> > Rainbow. Who says modern kids are soft. (the book's not available yet
> > here
> > but the story featured a little girl who'd latched onto an advance
> > copy)
> >
> > 			P.
> >
>
>
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