Forsaken Lover
12-01-2009, 06:50 PM
If any two series of books helped introduce me and get me interested in literature, it was these two. I can still remember getting the first two HP books for CHristmas and ordering the first couple Series books from a school book catalogue.
However if I had to pick a favorite it be A Series of Unfortunate Events. Why? I enjoy its absurdist style more; it has serious elements but overall it's whacky fun. Of course it does get progressiely darker which I enjoyed. I remember I always liked, from Book 1 and on, the fact the bad guys didn't lose. That stuck with me profoudnly because in middle school I hadn't been exposed to much fiction in which the villains weren't arrested or killed or whatever.
Anyone else read both these series and which one did you like more growing up?
However if I had to pick a favorite it be A Series of Unfortunate Events. Why? I enjoy its absurdist style more; it has serious elements but overall it's whacky fun. Of course it does get progressiely darker which I enjoyed. I remember I always liked, from Book 1 and on, the fact the bad guys didn't lose. That stuck with me profoudnly because in middle school I hadn't been exposed to much fiction in which the villains weren't arrested or killed or whatever.
Anyone else read both these series and which one did you like more growing up?