BOTB: Harry Potters (Shrimper) v Money (Rusty)

[MK Shrimper]

Not actually the QF's tie 3....

 

[Shrimper2thecore]

What I am asking you all to think about here is not necessarily if HP was a better set of books, but what it meant for a generation.

For vast amounts of my generation these were the only books that were read through the teenage years - nothing else interested the technological generation.

Plus everything else that has come as a result....it must have been pretty good...

 

[MK Shrimper]

What I am asking you all to think about here is not necessarily if HP was a better set of books, but what it meant for a generation.

Ahem, yellow card: we are voting on the books: I'm not of that generation but I read the first four (I think) until they became unwieldly at very, very samey - and beside they were sold with alternative "adult" covers.

You could pit Money against Pokemon cards if that was the case.

 

[Razam]

Harry Potter for me. The 1st 2 books were a bit too much of a kids book (i know that was the intention lol), but as they got darker, the books got better. But the main reason it gets my vote is that it got kids & teens reading again.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Never read any Harry Potter (or seen the films).Certainly don't intend to start now.

Money for me (despite its-or rather Amis's flaws) all day long.

 

[Ricky Otto]

Can't stand potter

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

My sons love Harry Potter, and I think it's a wonderful piece of fiction for its target audience. 'Money' is money. It's the ultimate tale of 80s excess, and deserves your vote just because of the Lorne Guyland character, a tiny geriatric actor obsessed with his declining sexuality.

Here's a decent summary: Money

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Money - was that adapted for TV with Nick Frost?

 

[RHB]

Although the Potters plots got a bit silly at times, they were an incredibly imaginative read. Money, I found a bit too depressing. Tough call as both Money and The Potters are high on the best sellers lists, but the Potters just edge it for me.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Money - was that adapted for TV with Nick Frost?

Sadly, yes.

 

[KAB]

Tried to read HP but failed miserabley, too old, too cynical. Money not a favourite but the better bet.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Money into the real QFs.