A little Harry post I haven't yet got into the Harry Potter craze (really didn't know it was as big a craze as it is until this past week..never underestimate.), but hearing a commentator on the radio last night talking about the popularity of the books ("These are bigger than some of the textbooks I always avoided in college" paraphrase) sent me to thinking.
I am quite young, and not as in touch with history and culture as I'd like to be, but I'd have to imagine that the HP franchise phenomenon is very unique in its modern-day ability to establish itsef as such an anticipated event that it garners so much attention on and preceding to its release, something that is almost exclusively reserved for movies these days. It might even be something totally unique to the book-publishing world, period, and I think that's more a reflection of modern (or should that be postmodern?) society that thrives on a kind of instant gratification. (That's not necessarily a negative trait, after all news just travels much faster than it once did.) Take an example of "Lord of the Rings," which took many years before it began to achieve it's pinnacle of popularity.
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