Comments on: Post-Potter Depression http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/ The Oklahoman's George Lang Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:24:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: susan http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-73 susan Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:51:22 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/#comment-73 ohmygodohmygod! sven, we totally have to go to Southern Oaks Library on Sunday to hear Harry Potter-esque bands the Remus Lupins and the Whomping Willows!! hooray!

]]> By: Chase http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Chase Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:44:57 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/#comment-70 how many have asked you if it was made into a 1930s-era horror movie starring Claude Rains?

]]> By: tony http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-69 tony Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:00:52 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/#comment-69 Yes, it IS a classic, and ESPECIALLY for those from the red dirt state…. but you wouldn’t believe how many people have picked up my copy and asked me if it was a good read.

]]> By: Chase http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Chase Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:44:08 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/#comment-65 I will give Todd props for being willing to stir up the shat here. I’m not a Potter fan, but I know dang well not to knock the series. Well, I can’t – I haven’t read any of ‘em.

And besides, my Potter-manic wife would kick my ass.

I will add this, though, to Tony – you get a demerit for throwing in the Ralph Ellison novel. I mean, c’mon, it’s a classic, for Pete’s sake! By that logic, I’m recommending George read “Huckleberry Finn.”

]]> By: Voldemort http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Voldemort Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:33:10 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/#comment-64 Todd, these people just don’t understand you! They ARE juvenile! You should come talk to me……

]]> By: Catherine Zeta-Jones http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Catherine Zeta-Jones Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:35:43 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/#comment-63 Todd, how deliciously elitist of you.

Harry Potter is hardly written at a second-grade level. And occasionally, those things enjoyed by the populace at-large can be genuinely good.

You might consider deflating.

]]> By: Susan http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Susan Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:42:50 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/#comment-62 todd reminds me of the character played by katherine zeta jones in high fidelity.

are you in or are you out, george?

]]> By: Sven http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Sven Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:09:18 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/#comment-61 Ha! Todd, you’re hilarious!

Oh wait, you are kidding, right?

Maybe not?

Oh dear God, maybe not….

]]> By: todd http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-60 todd Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:23:50 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/#comment-60 Harry Potter? It seems a tad, hmmm. Juvenile…

I am not looking to start a flame war but I also like to read books written beyond a second grade level. I say bravo to your son for reading at age 2. I was reading then myself and haven’t stopped for the past 30 years.

I am also suggesting something a little less for lack of a better term, genre, and something written in the 21st century…also something that isn’t so ny times bestseller list.

Why not start with something else from across the pond like the man booker nominees which were listed last week. I am working my way through them and I have not been disappointed yet. Warning not all are available through american publishers yet but amazon.co.uk is available.

Start with the welsh girl by peter ho davies.

The longlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize, which rewards the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland, follows:

Darkmans by Nicola Barker (4th Estate)
Self Help by Edward Docx (Picador)
The Gift Of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (Myrmidon)
The Gathering by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies (Sceptre)
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray)
Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (Viking)
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)
What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn (Tindal Street)
Consolation by Michael Redhill (William Heinemann)
Animal’s People by Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster
Winnie & Wolf by A.N.Wilson (Hutchinson)

]]> By: tony http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-59 tony Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:24:54 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2007/08/09/post-potter-depression/#comment-59 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers by Larry McMurtry

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