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Title: Poorly styled prose unreadable
Review: I am a person who loves good literature, including good fantasy writing. I have read and enjoyed Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitzin, but also love The Lord of the Rings, and other fantasy works by the likes of Stephen R. Donaldson and Philip Jose Farmer, for example.When my wife became an avid "Potter fan" I decided to give this book a try, but I found the prose style so dreadful that I was unable to continue beyond the first chapter. Whatever this series has to recommend it as far as the story goes (I watch the movies to keep up with that, and they are pretty entertaining), the writing itself is unforgivably poor. Most creative writing students that I spoke with about it at Fresno State agree with me, as well. This makes me think that Harry Potter is mostly read by people with limited experience with literature, as is the case with my wife, for example. If you never listen to Beethoven, Vivaldi, or Mahler, you won't recognize good from bad attempts at "classical" music.
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