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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Parmandur" data-source="post: 9145702" data-attributes="member: 6780330">My own relationship to Harry Pottwr is a bit peculiar: the first book came out when I was almost 12, and by that point I wouldn't be caught dead reading a "kid's book," I was too busy reading the Silmirillion, or something else old and weird like Chronicles of Amber. By the time I had matured enough to be chill reading a young adult book, I was getting an English degree and picked up the Harry Potter books as a distraction between reading Shakespeare or Milton and stopped after the second book because it was kind of boring?I recognize the current cultural impact, since so many of my fellow Engliah majors got into literature because of Harry Potter. But moat people I knew who loved the books have started trashing then due to the author's shenanigans destroying what joy there was to be found. Passing the test of time is hard.I wouldn't bet on the longterm viability of Star Wars to be honest: I was obsessed with it as a kid, but my kids think Star Wars is boring, and the stats Iveseen bear that generation gap out. It's kind of a Gen X/Millennial thing.</blockquote>