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- forsberg_us
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Re: Any other dads out there roped into the midnight showing of HP 7 pt.2?
Max wrote:
Dudes, thanks for the clarifications, but I am bit surprised at your passion for these books. No more wisecracks about John Cusack movies . . . especially the good ones!
Harry Potter was the first significant reading (i.e., non-childrens book) that I did with my son. I think he was 7 when we dove headfirst into Sorceror's Stone. It took several months, but we finally made it through. Our deal was simple--we didn't watch any of the movies until we had finished that respective book. We finished the entire series before Half Blood Prince hit the theaters, so we had to wait for the release of the last 3 movies before we could see the cinematic end of the story.
I went back and re-read the series a second time on my own just to catch things I realized I missed as I was going through the story.
- artie_fufkin
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Re: Any other dads out there roped into the midnight showing of HP 7 pt.2?
I'm pretty sure I posted this before, but when we moved in December 2003, our neighbors across the street from our old home allowed us to live in theirs while they were in Costa Rica and our new house was being prepped. They're kind of minimalists, so they only had basic cable (no ESPN!). Their daughter was 13 at the time and she owned the first three books, which seemed like the only entertainment option at the time.
Like Fors' son, my kid had his first real reading experience with Harry Potter. Almost any kind of literature at that age is good literature.
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Re: Any other dads out there roped into the midnight showing of HP 7 pt.2?
I was overseas when these came out, and after Charlotte's Web and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I concentrated on the "Little House" books as I was most concerned with how to see that my first child grew with American values, although living in Southeast Asia. I think we also did Narnia and the Hobbit before we lost the time to read books in the evening.
I have a hunch that the HP books are good, and maybe we will do those with my younger daughter, as she approaches the age for chapter books.
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