You know what's great about Harry Potter?

[conuly]

When people caught on to the huge wait times between books (and now the series is ended, of course), they started publishing a whole heckuva lot of other kid and YA fantasy books, much of which is really good - and even the more obviously derivative (of HP, naturally) books are still pretty nifty.

You know what's bad about Harry Potter? All these books - especially the more obviously pandering ones - have titles along the lines of Namety Name and the Adjectivial Noun. As it's now been almost two years since DH was released, can we all move past that, guys?

(And can some of these books have Namety Name protagonists other than white guys? Seriously? I mean, I'm all for encouraging boys to read, and I know that society tends to discourage them from reading books about girls, cooties and all that, but really now!)

Comments

What's good about HP

[cesy]

Hear, hear!

(to both parts)

[catnip13.livejournal.com]

You have read Tamora Pierce's Alanna and the other Tortall books, right?

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Stephen King commented on that--after his book The Shining came out, there were a slew of books named the Gleaming, the this-ing, the that-ing, and he was vastly amused by this because the title was a last-minute change.