[ SECRET POST #3357 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3357 ⌋

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Comments

[philstar22]

Bad taste in books? No they aren't classic literature. But they are pretty good for the sort of fun read they are meant to be.

[(Anonymous)]

Suggesting that there are better books out there doesn't necessarily mean OP is calling the Harry Potter books bad, you know.

[(Anonymous)]

OP didn't say "better books", OP said "better taste". Ergo, the reason everyone is saying the books are not in bad taste.

[(Anonymous)]

But that doesn't change the meaning of the key word, which is "better", not "taste". Maybe I enjoy Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban better than I enjoyed Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, but that doesn't necessarily mean I think Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was a bad book. It just means I thought Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was better.

[iggy]

They will be classic literature eventually.

[philstar22]

I'm not sure about that. Some fantasy qualifies (Tolkien certainly), but I'm not sure Potter ever will.

[iggy]

It will. I would bet substantial $$$$ on it. There's a tendency to look at what is now considered classic lit from our pov instead of a historical pov. Rowling is the Dickens of our era. MASSIVE, MASSIVE mainstream popularity, capturing the imagination of millions of people and becoming a phenom, but 'intellectuals' and 'scholars' turn up their noses at it. Potter isn't just popular, it practically defined a decade. People didn't read it and move on. It has become entrenched in our culture. This isn't a matter of 'was popular, but people soon forgot about it'. HP ended almost ten years ago and people lap up stuff about it as much now as they did back then.

There is simply no way it will not be considered classic lit in 100 years. I think it's absolutely disingenuous to pretend it won't be.