Harry Potter Poll

[shadowkat]

Anyone who reads my journal or is on my flist, please answer. For a lark and out of curiousity - I wanted to see how many people on my lj are actually into Harry Potter. This came out of a little discussion with my pal CW last night. Who I had persuaded to read Harry a long time ago, she was one of the people who veered away from it because a) kid books and b) hype. Then she picked up one and changed her mind. Last night she told me how cool it was on Sat to see such a huge cross section of people reading it in Central Park - from old men to little children. All races, sexs, and ages. Anywho...curious to see how many do so on my lj. So if you have a moment. Please answer. I'm also doing the poll.

PS: I haven't read the finale book yet and am still unspoiled, a miracle, I know, but I have a cool flist who cut tags on stuff like that. So no spoilers in comments. Thank you!

[Updated: for the purposes of this poll - "Persuaded" is the same as "Recommended" and "if you only read one book but none of the others" - pick did not read. It's not exact, but once again I forgot to put those options. ]

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Comments

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I suppose 'persuaded' might be over-stating it... I had ignored a friend's recommendation, but when I was visiting my brother and he had just finished reading the first book, and was starting the 2nd one, he recommended that I try it - I was hooked in the first chapter! I had to buy my own because he was reading that 2nd one too slowly. LOL

I hooked my cousins and their kids by giving them the audio books as a thank you gift after I'd stayed at their beach house.... Of course the adults and kids all got completely hooked on Harry Potter, causing trouble w/their Christian (anti-Harry Potter) in-laws! So I guess I'm just a trouble-maker.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Apparently more than one person had troubles with "persuaded" - so I updated, think of it as the same as recommended. (I was reading my flist prior to this and got the word from others journals.)

I got my mother and a friend into them. My other friend, Wales, remains immune to the movies and the books - but she's NOT a fan of the genre at all. It's odd, but all my friends who dislike fantasy and sci-fi, love horror. Was discussing this with my pal CW last night, who made the same observation about hers. They love things like 28 Days, Saw, Hostile, etc - but don't like Fantasy/Sci-Fi. Wales doesn't like torture porn, but does love anything with horror in it. Scarey vampires or zombies. She watched Buffy, but only was a fan of the Sixth Season. Avoided Angel.

And my father and kidbrother/sisinlaw also remain immune. No interest whatsoever. My mother reads them, but isn't *into* them and is waiting for it to come out in paperback. CW was really the only one who got addicted - she finished in under 48 hours. And has bought DVD's of the movies.