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...loved your column on Harry Potter. Your words of encouragement are enough to make me go out and buy a copy of any of the four titles - and I'm in my late 20s as well, but a guy (I wonder if that's okay?!). Thanks for the insight. I never thought I'd want to go out and buy any of the "Potter" books... until I read your words. - Brian...
When TIME.com associate producer Jennifer Hunt weighed in late last week with a piece about being an adult "Harry Potter" fan, little did she know how big a response she would provoke. Here's a sampling of the letters she received...
...guard a title that was rich before/ To gild refined gold, to paint the lily," wrote Shakespeare, "is wasteful and ridiculous excess." True, but this is a new millennium, and the gilding of Harry Potter seems to have worked. The carefully built-up demand produced long lines of customers and the curious at the many U.S. bookstores open for business at the crack of Saturday. Some of these settings seemed surreal. At Books of Wonder in lower Manhattan, local TV and print reporters swarmed among the expectant book buyers. "The AP has already hit us," said Dave Lambert...
...worth remembering, right about here, that "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" is not a Hollywood summer blockbuster, although its weekend grosses will probably be announced in a breathless press release. It is a book, a really long book, with no moving images, sound track or joysticks. Reading it, or listening to someone else read it aloud, requires a modicum of silence, the exact antithesis of all the bells and whistles and clarions that heralded its arrival...
...Also, in a lighter vein, Harry goes on a date. Rowling has promised three more Potter books, and the direction she's taking may disquiet some fans. But it is the publicity blitz for the next one that will probably be truly, relentlessly horrifying. -With reporting by Andrea Sachs/New York