Hah! Take that Dani.
(BTW – your comment preview doesn’t preserve new lines though they do show up with the final post.)

Harry Potter shows that if the free market wants a hyper-British children’s book designed to appeal to adults (through some strange backward logic) the market gets exactly that. There’s plenty else to read.

Abe’s comment is completely inane and without merit. Why do people like Harry Potter? Because it holds the interest of kids of all ages, whether or not they happen to be grown up or actual kids. And as someone famous said, kids are the future. So it follows that since kids like Harry Potter and kids are the future, you can make the argument that Harry Potter is in fact the future.

I never said Harry Potter was stupid or not appropriate. But the publishing of a new book means extra long hours servicing a bunch of screaming kids with harried parents past 2am at Barnes and Nobles for B&N employees.
This post was for my roommate, who works there.

Inane? Without Merit? (that’s redundant BTW) Look at the subject matter before commenting. As Jeremiah states above, your comment has nothing to do with the post. Take that for lack of merit.

I haven’t read the Harry Potter books and am mostly indifferent in feeling towards them, but it is ridiculous and annoying how much news coverage has been (and continues to be) dedicated to the release of a children’s book.
Btw, the above comments were quite entertaining.

Sweet fortune, dude. I’ve gotta find that Chinese restaurant. Come on, all you bloggers. Even we, valiant in our postmodern cynicism, can appreciate inroads in children’s literacy, right? And if we’re going to slam Harry Potter for being “a hyper-British children’s book designed to appeal to adults,” due to “how much news coverage has been (and continues to be) dedicated to the release of a children’s book” then can we at least say the same for the monotony of aggravating advertising dedicated to the release of the The Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four, War of the Worlds, etc., all of which satiate our craving for a passive, mediated extravaganza?

A thousand pardons to the bookselling roommate. The primal scream of a child is something to be feared in the early hours of the morning. He should tell those parents to go home and get some sleep, and take their kids with them. I have this feeling, though, that THEY were the bunch of screaming adults past 2 am at movie theaters when Star Wars came out at midnight.