M.T.T.
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Until the Harry Potter movies came out...jhakka said:In defence of authors like Rowling, however, I would like to point out that no matter how overexposed they may be, they also appear to be responsible for a lot of younger kids reading. Just remembering news stories a few years ago, there were a lot of kids who would not read at all before the Harry Potter books became big. Though they might not be the best books out there, they are opening an entire world to what was previously a generation of non-readers, and this is surely nothing to be complained about.
Now, those early Gen Z kids are absorbing Rowling's story through the DVD and the cinema and not through the books - thus their reading capabilities remain insufficient and their imagination unstimulated.
While my parents and I have read the entire series of Harry Potter books, my little sister, aged 13, is very reluctant to read the series. She's read #1 and some of #7 (to see how the series ends). Now she's attempting to read Twilight.
On that note, I must say that the Twilight series has renewed hope for me - but then they made a movie...