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• [1] Nathalie from Brooklyn August 24, 2007 - 12:00PM

  I am listing to the show-and people start to refer that there are no good stories (that shows the scary aspects of life for children?)

  I remember tons of children/teenage books talking of orphans, hardship and evil-such as detective stories by Edith Bylton, then Astrid Lindgren etc. It might be a European things-but then it is not a lack of stories, but making them available in English (many of them are translated).

  But I think it hard to believe that there are no books talking of death-and danger in the US.

  
  
• [2] seth from Astoria August 24, 2007 - 12:06PM

  I'm glad you re-aired the Harry Potter Segment. On the original date, I dove to the radio and shut it off before even hearing the fake Sopranos summary as I didn't want it ruined. I'm 28, I feel as I grew up with Harry Potter because I never read a single book myself for pleasure until I started the Harry Potter series. Now I always have a book on hand. I hope children from now to come will have the same reaction. (ps, I'm glad I didn't listen the first time, because even knowing there was an epilogue as you said, would have put thoughts in my mind, and comprimised, not spoiled or ruined, but compromised the joy of reading the ending for the first time.) I agree that the if the writing is good, the end will never be spoiled, such as a symphony, but that is on the second listen/read and on. I've read all the HP books 4 times each, the last I'm on the second time through on the second to last chapter, and each time I read them, the ending is truely wonderful. Though Nothing will match the joy of finding out something new, whatever that new thing may be. Cheers to JK Rowling and Harry Potter.