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I haven't read any of them yet. I may pick up the first one at some point, just to see what all the fuss is about. I saw about twenty seconds of the first movie on a display in K-Mart the other night.
I think the main reason I've avoided the series to date is that I'm highly allergic to hype and obsessive fandom. I'm weird that way. I have not watched any of the Star Wars movies beyond the first, and avoid post-Wrath of Khan Star Trek byproducts with a passion. I greatly enjoy Tolkien's books (the Silmarillion is on my dresser as I speak), yet I've avoided the movies; I already have a mental picture of how the story went, thenkyew. I loathed much of the Matrix, and couldn't grasp what everyone else saw in it. I haven't watched a minute of Survivor, Buffy or American Idol, except for the last few minutes of the first Survivor's climactic episode to see if the fat naked guy I'd heard about would win (and that only because my father had it on, and I walked into the room).
Oddly, I don't get quite the same "CA$H COW" vibe out of Potter that I do from many of the above, though it's obviously being milked for maximum marketing appeal. I don't know why, but I sense that there's something of substance tucked behind the buybuybuy mania.
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