re harry Potter
I have to say that your post touched a nerve as I have read all the Harry Potter series (and queued at bookstores at midnight and then stayed up all night to read it before dawn.)
My one regret is that my daughter who is a voracious reader will not even pick one up. I have no idea why - she reads lots of fantasy type books and in fact reads lots of books period but although the whole series is sitting on our shelves waiting to be read she just ignores them.

I am not young I am almost 60 but I enjoyed them immensely.

I think there is an inverted snobbery about the books a kind of 'If they are that successful, they must be rubbish' kind of view. I personally will stick my neck out and say that I find them very well written indeed.
(Stunt slug If God existed I'd want to fight him, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 1:52, 1 reply)

She doesn't read them
because you do. Simple as that. Kids don't like their parents' favourite music, their parents' favourite clothes or their parents' favourite books.
(ubergeekian, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 14:43, closed)

this isn't true in my house
although if mini-me liked my favourite clothes there might be something he needs to tell me.
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 19:55, closed)