Hey Connie, maybe they need to have a HP Therapist, kind of like a grief counsellor come onto the board to help us deal with this. I'm only half kidding. : )
potterfreak2 wrote:
I picked up Into Thin Air again today which I have to read for school, and I just couldn't read it. I didnt even read 5 pages when I got frusterated that it wasn't Harry Potter, or anything even remotely close to Harry Potter, and had to put it down. I want to reread the HP series but I really need to read this book soon so I can do my project and be done sometime before the night before it is due, but I just can't. I was hoping that after I finished rereading DH I would be able to read something different but that apparently didn't work. Maybe if I reread one other Harry Potter book and then pick up Into Thin Air again it'll work. Hmmm... I think I'll read SS again after I go get some ice cream
potterfreak2 wrote:
I picked up Into Thin Air again today which I have to read for school, and I just couldn't read it. I didnt even read 5 pages when I got frusterated that it wasn't Harry Potter, or anything even remotely close to Harry Potter, and had to put it down. I want to reread the HP series but I really need to read this book soon so I can do my project and be done sometime before the night before it is due, but I just can't. I was hoping that after I finished rereading DH I would be able to read something different but that apparently didn't work. Maybe if I reread one other Harry Potter book and then pick up Into Thin Air again it'll work. Hmmm... I think I'll read SS again after I go get some ice cream
Dear potterfreak2, my daughter is going through the same thing you are. She has to read Clan of The Cave Bear for school and she is unable to finish it. I tried telling her to finish it before starting DH but of course she didn't listen (can you blame her?). I'm not sure if reading one more Harry Potter book will cure you and unless you are a really fast reader it may not leave you enough time to finish your required reading. I think the only solution may be to trick yourself by promising yourself that you can read all the Potter books you want AFTER you get your school reading out of the way. Take it from the mother of a procrastinator,you'll only make yourself more stressed by putting off the inevitable!
Good luck...Paula
PB684 wrote:
potterfreak2 wrote:
I picked up Into Thin Air again today which I have to read for school, and I just couldn't read it. I didnt even read 5 pages when I got frusterated that it wasn't Harry Potter, or anything even remotely close to Harry Potter, and had to put it down. I want to reread the HP series but I really need to read this book soon so I can do my project and be done sometime before the night before it is due, but I just can't. I was hoping that after I finished rereading DH I would be able to read something different but that apparently didn't work. Maybe if I reread one other Harry Potter book and then pick up Into Thin Air again it'll work. Hmmm... I think I'll read SS again after I go get some ice cream
Dear potterfreak2, my daughter is going through the same thing you are. She has to read Clan of The Cave Bear for school and she is unable to finish it. I tried telling her to finish it before starting DH but of course she didn't listen (can you blame her?). I'm not sure if reading one more Harry Potter book will cure you and unless you are a really fast reader it may not leave you enough time to finish your required reading. I think the only solution may be to trick yourself by promising yourself that you can read all the Potter books you want AFTER you get your school reading out of the way. Take it from the mother of a procrastinator,you'll only make yourself more stressed by putting off the inevitable!
Good luck...Paula
Paula,
You're probably right about not being cured by reading one more Harry Potter book, but I think I might try it, I'm kind of in need of some HP therapy anyways (for some reason it makes me feel better when I can escape into Harry's world). I've read SS in a day before, so I'm thinking I'll start it in a little bit and have it finished by tonight. Into Thin Air isn't a long book and a lot of my friends have really enjoyed it. I started it earlier this summer and it didn't seem a hard read either, so I don't think it'll take me too long to finish. I probably will have to trick myself into reading it though, I've used that technique many times for things, but I never thought of using it now. Thanks. I'm a major procrastinator, and I know I'll probably end up stressed, but I usually work a bit better under pressure anyways. Thanks for being concerned and trying to help.
Sammi
PattyBNUChick wrote:
I think that is part of it, but for me, its just somehow these books have moved me so deeply, the characters are SO real, the puzzlement of it (I like doing research and solving puzzles), having the movies come out fairly quickly and having it so in the spotlight, has really kept the momentum going. Book 7 rose to a fever pitch and BAM its over. Years of waiting, of researching and BAM its over. Nothing left to research, the answers overall are there, its just like the most wonderful thing is suddenly stopped on a dime and its like shock or something. There have been a lot of authors who have cropped up imo trying to give their own version of a magic community, which is completely fine, but while those books focus on magic, they're missing the rest of the Potter magic for the most part, and for me, they don't really do much. Its not necessarily the magic that I want in a new book or series, its the characters and the feeling it gave me. Don't get me wrong, I think the magic was fabulous, but I'd rather read a wonderful non-magic book that grabs me so much that my eyes are bleeding from reading too much, than a magic book that is just so-so. So, all those new magic books are lost on me, I don't even bother to pick them up anymore. Plus, one reason I liked the potter series was that it was modern day, I just can't seem to get into books where there is magic, but the setting is hundreds or years ago and I really can't stand odd old-fashioned names. Sure Albus and Severus and Dedalus and all that are not really used in the modern english-speaking world that I know of, but those aren't that 'out-there', so its still within my realm of what I like. As usual...I'm rambling ; )
ConnieK wrote:
What is it about these books (or the whole HP experience?) that keeps some people from moving on? It is strange, isn't it? I wonder if it has something to do with being part of a community, you know? If there was another book or series that "everybody" was reading, or that was the feeling anyway, would that help, do you think? From some readers, I'm hearing that their own reading of their own choice of books is such a solitary experience that the Potter books took the alone-ness out of that for awhile and made it a community thing...might that be what people are missing? They're looking for a book that will join them to another community, perhaps?
~ConnieK
PattyBNUChick wrote:
Hey Connie, maybe they need to have a HP Therapist, kind of like a grief counsellor come onto the board to help us deal with this. I'm only half kidding. : )
Message Edited by ConnieK on 08-12-2007 10:48 AM
I think you both are on to something. I have been searching the net for book discussion clubs/groups that are or will be discussing any of the books that are on my to be read list. First, to help encourage me to read something else. Secondly to continue enjoying something along with so many others. (I know that right there makes me sound like I need a therapist
). I have never read a book and then have been able to go to talk to so many people about it, and go several places on-line to see what others have to say. Plus the fact that the book and the characters have been such a great escape and like Patty said, are so deep and so real. I find myself wanting more. Not so much continuing the series but wanting to hear the story from different characters points of view to have even more insights into them. I just can't stop thinking about them. I have read many books that I have loved and hated it when they were over and experienced many emotions upon reading such books. But never have I read a book (until DH) where I have experienced so many emotions at one time.
potterfreak2 wrote:
Ha! I decided to try and read Into Thin Air again today and I got to page 43! I never even finished rereading Sorcerer's Stone. I really don't have a problem anymore. Well except maybe that I was trying to relate just about everyother paragraph to Harry Potter, but I really am over it!!!
Maybe...
Way to go...I knew you could do it!
Paula
P.S. my daughter just finished her school reading too (yeah).
Hey everyone!! im so proud of myself....ive manage to get past the half-way point of another book....and enjoy it!!! i started Eragon because i was curious....its no where near as good as HP but its pretty cool, very exciting and quite mysterious. I suggest this book to help cure Post-Potter-Depression..or atleast get the pain to stop for a while
Eragon is okay, but a little too predictable, and a little too generic, I-like-Tolkien-so-I-wrote-a-book-kinda-like-him, type of book, and the second one can be down right insulting to a person with a strong faith in anything but science.
That being said, I can make a couple of recommendations as to enjoyable fantasy I can recommend.
To Our younger readers, I have heard ALOT of good things about The Dark Is Rising series by Susan Cooper (the movie out later this year), and I can personally recommend the Artemis Fowl series, which while not as long or as in depth as HP, does a lot of the hidden world, turning myths on their ear type of thing like here, and the author is from Ireland, just in case you need a dose of that writing from the British Isles now that HP is done.
For our older readers (Both of these series while not explicit, deal with rather mature themes)
First, Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey is a wonderfully in depth and very different fantasy world based on renaissance Europe. It is full of intrigue and adventure, is very fast moving for such a large book. The author is up to five books in this series with more on the way. (As a note, in creating this world the author took some liberties with history and the Christian faith, if you would be easily offended by something like this, you may not want to read this.)
Second is The Song of Fire and Ice series by George R.R. Martin (Some folks may remember him as a primary writer on the old Beauty and the Beast TV show from the late eighties). This is more your traditional medieval Fantasy setting with some very nice and imaginative twists, and while also full of adventure and intrigue, in this case the emphasis is on the adventure.
Both of these series are still on going, and if you are looking for something new to pick apart and search for clues in, Martin's books are perfect for it as he keeps hinting at things to come, and there are clues and surprises well hidden in his books. (Some of which even my brilliant brain missed till they were pointed out to me.)
*Looks at this post* Yeah, can't tell I work in a bookstore and recommend books on a regular basis.
That being said, I can make a couple of recommendations as to enjoyable fantasy I can recommend.
To Our younger readers, I have heard ALOT of good things about The Dark Is Rising series by Susan Cooper (the movie out later this year), and I can personally recommend the Artemis Fowl series, which while not as long or as in depth as HP, does a lot of the hidden world, turning myths on their ear type of thing like here, and the author is from Ireland, just in case you need a dose of that writing from the British Isles now that HP is done.
For our older readers (Both of these series while not explicit, deal with rather mature themes)
First, Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey is a wonderfully in depth and very different fantasy world based on renaissance Europe. It is full of intrigue and adventure, is very fast moving for such a large book. The author is up to five books in this series with more on the way. (As a note, in creating this world the author took some liberties with history and the Christian faith, if you would be easily offended by something like this, you may not want to read this.)
Second is The Song of Fire and Ice series by George R.R. Martin (Some folks may remember him as a primary writer on the old Beauty and the Beast TV show from the late eighties). This is more your traditional medieval Fantasy setting with some very nice and imaginative twists, and while also full of adventure and intrigue, in this case the emphasis is on the adventure.
Both of these series are still on going, and if you are looking for something new to pick apart and search for clues in, Martin's books are perfect for it as he keeps hinting at things to come, and there are clues and surprises well hidden in his books. (Some of which even my brilliant brain missed till they were pointed out to me.)
*Looks at this post* Yeah, can't tell I work in a bookstore and recommend books on a regular basis.
Half-Blood_Canadian wrote:
Hey everyone!! I'm so proud of myself....ive manage to get past the half-way point of another book....and enjoy it!!! i started Eragon because i was curious....its no where near as good as HP but its pretty cool, very exciting and quite mysterious. I suggest this book to help cure Post-Potter-Depression..or atleast get the pain to stop for a while
I see your point about his age, but hey if your parents owned a publishing company I am sure you could get published too. 
As to the books you are refering too, yes, it is scary the glut of books that seem to be all about "How shallow of a person can you be!"
As to the books you are refering too, yes, it is scary the glut of books that seem to be all about "How shallow of a person can you be!"
Half-Blood_Canadian wrote:
Yah...but i'm fifteen and the fact that it was written by a teenage guy is what made me curious and is what makes it so wonderful to me. It's part of the magic. To me, it's not that generic, but that might be because everyone else my age is reading books that might as well be called "I'm a teenage girl who is too short-sighted to realize that the world goes beyond the fact that the captain of the football team doesn't notice me, the popular girl is mean but i still want to be her, my best friend is ditching me and not to mention make-up and boys are very complicated things".(I'm allowed to make fun of them because i read a couple through force of a friend) no offense to anyone who lives by these types of books though.
...wow...that got slightly off topic...o well
ShadowCougar wrote:
Eragon is okay, but a little too predictable, and a little too generic,
