Hmmmm. Certainly the later books of the Harry potter series are not exactly aimed at children (I noticed a certain rather grafic part of the Voldemort rebirth enchantment was missing from the 4th film). In fact that's one of the interesting things about the series, that the first two (perhaps three), books are deffinately children's books, but the last three (particularly the last two), aren't!
In fact, over here the times newspaper ran a contest when Order of the Phenix came out, for children to submit book reviews, and the winner would get to read the book at midnight when it came out, right a review and have it published. the 8 year old girl who won the competition absolutely hated Order of the Phenix. she complained that long points of the book were spent outside hogwarts, and that there weren't any monsters. In fact, in a recent cover to cover audio book catalogue I recieved had the following sections: Children's fiction, adult fiction, and Harry potter fiction! As to the films, I'm afraid I really didn't think too much to the first two, sinse there tone was far too light happy and nice and didn't have the realism in the books. I enjoyed the third and fourth much more, sinse they were darker and far more gothic, but even so I did notice that a few of the nastier moments were cut, and quite a bit of the plot was stated in a less than subtle way. while the films are fun, and a nice way to bring people to the series, I don't think they could be any substitute to JK rowling's writing. Btw, also as reguards the films, how could hollywood confuse philosopher's and sorcerer's? I'm a philosopher, and haven't done anything resembling sorcery yet (though maybe that'll come when I actually finish my Phd). ;D. Beware the Grue! Dark. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
