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   From: Troels@ThisIsFake.invalid   
      
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   > Öjevind Lång wrote:   
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   >> "Troels Forchhammer"  skrev i   
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   >>> However, even at her best I can't see Rowling as having any of   
   >>> the 'spirit' or 'air' of Tolkien's writing: hers are, in my   
   >>> opinion, a very different kind of stories from Tolkien's   
   >>   
   >> Yes. Her HP books are a mixture of fantasy, schhol novels and   
   >> teenage love interest stories.   
      
   At her best, I think Rowling adds something to that mix. I think her   
   books also employ a rough mystery outline -- there is an element of   
   detection to all the books (I also think there's some superhero stuff   
   thrown in for good measure). But when she is at her best she manages   
   to mix it all together in an effective cocktail, but when she's at   
   her worst, the individual elements grate against each other like a   
   fork against a plate . . .   
      
   >> In a way, she portends phenomena such as "Twilight".   
   >   
   > Without getting into HP too much, the only real portents to the   
   > Twilight nonsense is teenage romance novels.   
      
   My oldest, now a young mad at 19, came home from school one day   
   nearly doubled with laughter. It turned out that one of his class-   
   mates had given a book report on some book in the _Twilight_ series   
   and all he had come away from it with was something about a   
   vegetarian vampire ;-)   
      
   That is about all I know about the _Twilight_ books -- except that   
   'teenage romance' seems almost too mature a term to use for it.   
      
   > HP doesn't touch any of those nerves that a romance novel does.   
      
   No, not really. I mean, there's teenage love and all that, but it's   
   of another kind (more realistic as teenage love, you might say) than   
   the stuff you find in the typical romances (the nauseating stuff that   
   I  understand makes up the _Twilight_ books).   
      
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