cablelegs t1_iujatqi wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:26 PM

Reply to comment by MythicCommander in Have any books come close to the same impact as Harry Potter had? by NubbyNob

Well, are you going to name those which had more impact? :)

MythicCommander t1_iujdpkp wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:45 PM

Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Narnia, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Da Vinci Code, The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1984, War & Peace, Gone with the Wind, Animal Farm, Dune, The Bible.

I don’t think it’s really fair to compare them. Harry Potter was doing this during a time when reading had become a niche community. Those books were doing it when it was the popular medium for storytelling. I mean, I’d take a good book over a good movie, but I don’t think I’m in the majority.