Harry Potter continues to be a spectacular global success

@MissScarletInTheBallroom is that because we're too stupid to read? 😂😂😂😂
Its like listening to my 4 year old niece's critical thinking

So since the films came out kids (and adults) don't have to bother with tiresome old books anymore. Shame her principles didn't apply then, but money was clearly more important.

Gosh, how perceptive of you, @Portakalkedi This completely explains why the Harry Potter children's books still regularly sell in their hundreds of thousands and why JKR's latest book for adults has immediately shot to the top of the hardback fiction bestseller list, outselling its nearest competitor more than three-fold. I await your next insight with bated breath.

https://www.thebookseller.com/bestsellers/perfect-strike-robert-galbraith-bowls-over-the-competition

https://archive.ph/t2psL

😂😂

It’s because it’s an amazing piece of literature that thousands enjoy. The author is an amazing person who has helped charities all over the world. She’s wonderful and has enriched my children’s childhoods they loved the books and films dressed in hogworts robes to watch the films happily ran round the garden with wands and spells. youngest son is currently reading chamber of secrets! We have hundreds of toys and Lego ect have been a few times to studio. She has our support as anyone trying to protect others should. Totally admirable!

What?
The first film came out in 2001, before the last 3 books were even published and they sold far more (and the midnight release "hype" was far bigger) than the ones before, i.e. also before the films were released.

25 years later and the "tiresome old books" are STILL topping best sellers charts.

So basically you're talking complete rubbish.

I wonder how many millions of children around the world have read the books because they saw the film, or were given merchandise. You would have to evidence your suggestion that the films & merch have stopped children reading. And why on earth should she not make money? Her taxes alone have contributed to the economy not to mention the jobs created and income for places linked to the films. I expect the National Trust was very happy with the income from renting out Lacock Abbey and subsequent income from HP tie-in activities.

Wtf?!?? So since she allowed them to be made into films, that means she is responsible for children not reading again? That is the most batshit thing I've ever read on here!

I've just started it and enjoying it!. The Running Grave is also very useful to lift my computer screen to the perfect height.

While i admire JKR for speaking out on the whole sorry trans issue, I do NOT respect that she sold the film rights to the books. It was amazing to see so many kids all over the world queuing to buy books, dressing up etc etc, the book releases at midnight etc. However selling the film/tv/endless merchandise rights was a poor decision, and purely mercenary. So since the films came out kids (and adults) don't have to bother with tiresome old books anymore. Shame her principles didn't apply then, but money was clearly more important.

All I can say is that anyone who is using it as a doorstop is missing out.

I'm already re-reading it.

I’m reading THM at the moment, it’s bloody brilliant. Had a little cry last night and I’m only a third of the way through.

Couldn’t be more pleased that JK’s ginormous success continues, despite the haters.

'Apparently'

With apologies to JKR and anyone who paid £30 (and THM is worth it), I took advantage of an Audible offer of 3 months for 99p per month plus 3 free audio books.

O/T but I love that the top selling books of the year include a WBD book about Bluey.

Apparently nobody is actually reading it, it's just gone to the top of the bestseller list due to transphobes who are happy to pay upwards of £15 for a new door stop.

I've got my copy!

Last night at a family gathering it came up in conversation that I had just read THM. A young family member who was previously a massive Potter fan but last time we discussed books said she was boycotting JKR volunteered, ‘I can’t believe I went off her for a while. I completely agree with her now.’ She says the tide has totally turned amongst young people.

Walking past the Lego Store in Edinburgh yesterday, I was very happy to see that Harry Potter is the main window item 🙂

Last May DD and I went on a special birthday trip to the little Italian lakeside town of Peschiera del Garda (population 11,000). Our Airbnb apartment was above a little shop in a side street in the historic walled centre. Being both huge JK Rowling fans, we were amused and delighted to see that the shop was entirely devoted to Harry Potter. 😊

Luckily I was never much of a Gaiman fan, I think I have a couple of his books but I haven't read them for years.

I think it's partly because, being a big fan of classic SFF, I know most of the authors he nicked from. (To be perfectly fair, he always acknowledged his influences; I've just come to prefer the originals)

I've still never read a word of HP. I do enjoy Strike, though it's not my favourite detective series and I wish she'd get an editor - but I like to spend some time with these characters that I've come to see as friends. And even if the mystery isn't gripping me there's bound to be some clever subtheme that makes me smile.

I do want to read the third Book of Dust, just to find out what happens in the end, but I won't bother with any more of his stuff. I had a few Gaiman's on my to-read list but they've long gone!

Northern Lights was exceptionally good (especially at first) the sequels tedious.
Though even the first part of the first book seemed a bit derivative of the rather lovely The Warden’s Niece by Gillian Avery.

I’ve never read Pullman so Thankyou for the heads up. Another one on my no read list

Yes, I was gobsmacked!