Comments on: Why is Harry Potter not on the New York Times best sellers list? http://crushable.com/entertainment/why-is-harry-potter-not-on-the-new-york-times-best-sellers-list/ Crushable gives you the celebrity news, style and scoop on the stuff you care about. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:07:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Krystal http://crushable.com/entertainment/why-is-harry-potter-not-on-the-new-york-times-best-sellers-list/comment-page-1/#comment-178318 Krystal Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:29:25 +0000 http://www.gryffindorgazette.com/2007/04/02/why-is-harry-potter-not-on-the-new-york-times-best-sellers-list/#comment-178318 I believe J.K. Rowling has every right to be mad at the Times. From the comments listed above it is obvious that you are not Harry Potter fans and do not appreciate that movement that these books have made. And the probelm, Bernadette, if you did the research properly, was that there was no "spoiler" warning on the review. And your preference for LOTR has nothing to do with this as this is merely your opinion. However, with that being said I think the mere sales of the book, Deathly Hallows speaks for itself, $8.3 million is the first 24 hours as that LOTR total sales, for all three books have equaled 19.3 million since 2000. So I believe that there sheer volume of people who are fans would have to disagree with you on the point that J.K Rowling has no "literary essence". And you commented about the fact that J.K. Rowling is " concerned with the wishes of her young readers" and you say that is "bullshit" as she wouldn't be writing about "teenage lust and death everywhere", I have a few comments to make. In almost every fairytale, including ones adopted by Disney(which is considered to be the most kid friendly), death is present in almost every story. Think Snow White, even the witch in Sleeping Beauty tries to kill the princess, Lion King, etc. And I think it is safe to say that in all those movies the princesses kiss their princes, which is no different than HP as the characters are never mentioned doing anything but kissing. So these topics of lust and death being present in children folklore is not uncommon and exclusive to Harry Potter. Also, most of the books are read by adults as well as younger children. You have to realize that these books have been out for ten years and most of J.K Rowling's readers have grown up with Harry in their lives so it only makes sense that the books get more adult as the years go on. I suggest not to make comments about things in which you are obviously ignorant. I believe J.K. Rowling has every right to be mad at the Times. From the comments listed above it is obvious that you are not Harry Potter fans and do not appreciate that movement that these books have made. And the probelm, Bernadette, if you did the research properly, was that there was no “spoiler” warning on the review. And your preference for LOTR has nothing to do with this as this is merely your opinion. However, with that being said I think the mere sales of the book, Deathly Hallows speaks for itself, $8.3 million is the first 24 hours as that LOTR total sales, for all three books have equaled 19.3 million since 2000. So I believe that there sheer volume of people who are fans would have to disagree with you on the point that J.K Rowling has no “literary essence”. And you commented about the fact that J.K. Rowling is ” concerned with the wishes of her young readers” and you say that is “bullshit” as she wouldn’t be writing about “teenage lust and death everywhere”, I have a few comments to make. In almost every fairytale, including ones adopted by Disney(which is considered to be the most kid friendly), death is present in almost every story. Think Snow White, even the witch in Sleeping Beauty tries to kill the princess, Lion King, etc. And I think it is safe to say that in all those movies the princesses kiss their princes, which is no different than HP as the characters are never mentioned doing anything but kissing. So these topics of lust and death being present in children folklore is not uncommon and exclusive to Harry Potter. Also, most of the books are read by adults as well as younger children. You have to realize that these books have been out for ten years and most of J.K Rowling’s readers have grown up with Harry in their lives so it only makes sense that the books get more adult as the years go on. I suggest not to make comments about things in which you are obviously ignorant.

]]> By: Bernadette http://crushable.com/entertainment/why-is-harry-potter-not-on-the-new-york-times-best-sellers-list/comment-page-1/#comment-176904 Bernadette Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:53:05 +0000 http://www.gryffindorgazette.com/2007/04/02/why-is-harry-potter-not-on-the-new-york-times-best-sellers-list/#comment-176904 Who does Rowling think she is, taking to court whoever leaks the ending of her precious Deathly Hallows book? It's going to be up for sale and if somebody bought it ahead leagally and chooses to talk about the book it's none of anybody's business. If you don't want to know what happened yet then don't read any spoiler or review, even a 5th grader is smart enough to know that. And please, don't anyone dare to compare HP series and JKRowling to Tolkien's Lord of The Rings Trilogy. HP is nothing more than a comic book, just longer and comes as paperback. It has none of the literary essence of LOTR, that which will make you want to read the book over and over and still feel the same emotions about the characters. Rowling is concerned about "the wishes of her young readers"? That's bullshit! If she is even half concerned about them, she will not be writing about teenage lust and death everywhere. Who does Rowling think she is, taking to court whoever leaks the ending of her precious Deathly Hallows book? It’s going to be up for sale and if somebody bought it ahead leagally and chooses to talk about the book it’s none of anybody’s business. If you don’t want to know what happened yet then don’t read any spoiler or review, even a 5th grader is smart enough to know that. And please, don’t anyone dare to compare HP series and JKRowling to Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings Trilogy. HP is nothing more than a comic book, just longer and comes as paperback. It has none of the literary essence of LOTR, that which will make you want to read the book over and over and still feel the same emotions about the characters. Rowling is concerned about “the wishes of her young readers”? That’s bullshit! If she is even half concerned about them, she will not be writing about teenage lust and death everywhere.

]]> By: milander http://crushable.com/entertainment/why-is-harry-potter-not-on-the-new-york-times-best-sellers-list/comment-page-1/#comment-181070 milander Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:22:07 +0000 http://www.gryffindorgazette.com/2007/04/02/why-is-harry-potter-not-on-the-new-york-times-best-sellers-list/#comment-181070 It's all clever marketing again.. adults looking for her new book are going to wonder why it is NOT on the best seller list in the NY times and raise questions which will be published in articles and magazines across the country as well as some, no doubt, searching questions on local television about some of the points you have just raised. Take some time to learn to read between the lines and be a bit more cynical :-)) NsTbtw It’s all clever marketing again.. adults looking for her new book are going to wonder why it is NOT on the best seller list in the NY times and raise questions which will be published in articles and magazines across the country as well as some, no doubt, searching questions on local television about some of the points you have just raised.

Take some time to learn to read between the lines and be a bit more cynical :-) )

NsTbtw

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