You can read the history of the first book on Wikipedia. Check out this
quote:
In August 1999 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone topped the New York
Times list of best-selling fiction,[35] and stayed near the top of the
list for much of 1999 and 2000, until the New York Times split its list
into children's and adult sections under pressure from other publishers
who were eager to see their books given higher placings.[23][33]
Publishers Weekly's report in December 2001 on cumulative sales of
children's fiction placed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 19th
among hardbacks (over 5 million copies) and 7th among paperbacks (over
6.6 million copies).
And check out this list from Wikipedia and notice the "Number of books"
column for Rowling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_fiction_authors
-Ray
On 12/20/2011 11:15 AM, Chris Fowler wrote:
Well I've got to say it, I'd never even heard about Harry potter before
the first film was made. I personally think that the film brought the HP
books into the lime light, and made them the success they became.
--Chris--
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*From:* S Lismore <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:* feistfans-l <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Tuesday, December 20, 2011 6:54 PM
*Subject:* Re: Possible answer
Potter unfortunatly was probably more succesfull because kids could
associate with him more, and grow with him. Potter starts out the
outcast, goes to a big school is bullied ( well they try anyway). he
breaks rules but gains respect from his peers ie teachers, never
mind flying on a broom having a pet owl and flying cars. Just not as
easy to associate with a dragon or Thomas. With being a prisoner and
slave yes kids can read of slavery but in our modern life it just
does not give the direct input that risking discapline from your
teachers does.
Kids might fantasice of having a pet dragon or even flying to other
worlds but reality hits home nobody alive has travelled to another
planet only to the moon, dragons well does anyone know one who has
one as a pet other than the bearded type more akin to Fantus than
some giant monster able to carry you were ever you want to go, yet
people do have owls as pets.
And to top it all Pug grows up quickly and is then an adult again
distant from kids and their own reality, and potter brings back
childhood memories for many grown ups many who will have read the
books either to their children or sneeking a few pages when the kids
were not watching to see what the fusss was about.
Jimmy the hand is for me the closest character to potter and is also
one of the most interesting characters created by Ray, you get to
follow him growing up more and this gives added depth to his
character IMHO.
On 20 December 2011 18:21, Timothy Sikora <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Besides, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. ;)
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Raymond E. Feist
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Dec 20, 2011, at 5:03 AM, parch antisko wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I remember Ray, you were pondering why Rowling's Potter
is much more
> successful than Magician. I think I have found a possible
answer while
> reading Carl Gustav Jung's Psychology of the unconscious.
He is
> writing:
>
> "Faust has need of the phallic magic wand (in the magic
strength of
> which he has at first no confidence), in order to perform
the greatest
> of wonders, namely, the creation of Paris and Helen."
>
> H.Potter is using a fallic symbol, it focuses the libido
and is a
> hidden symbol for young people who are attracted to it
through this.
> Suble sexuality is also in the Meyer's New Moon book
which she
> admitted in the interview I heard in the radio and she
knew it will
> attrack young girls to read.
>
> Maybe it is total crap but I had to say it :)
>
> P
>
Ah, you have me confused with another writer. I know exactly
why Potter is more popular than Pug. More people wanted to
read about him.
Jo Rowling did a brilliant job of writing something kids and
parents wanted to read together. And it was contemporary,
and it was charming.
Best, R.E.F.
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