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03-27-2008, 01:14 PM
| | |  Harry Potter on most & least loved reads lists
The National Year of Reading campaign and networking site Piczo ran a survey entitled Read Up, Fed Up which involved 1,340 children aged 11 to 14. Harry Potter featured on both the most and least loved reads lists. Quote:
Honor Wilson-Fletcher, director of the National Year of Reading insisted: "We should all appreciate that many young people are reading creatively - widely yet selectively.
"Teens are challenging our traditional definitions of reading as being all about books but reading enthusiastically nonetheless."
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Putting the best face on the findings, Schools Minister Jim Knight added: "It is vital that young people have the opportunity to read widely.
"It is wonderful that 80 per cent of the teenagers surveyed write their own stories and keep up-to-date with current affairs by using sites like BBC Online."
| Quote: Most-loved reads
1) Heat
2) Bliss
3) Song lyrics online
4) Computer game cheats online
5) Self-made online blog or fan fiction
6) The Harry Potter series
7) Anne Frank's Diary
8) Film scripts
9) Books by Anthony Horowitz
10) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
11) BBC Online
12) Books by Louise Rennison
| Quote: Least-liked reads
1) Homework
2) Shakespeare
3) Books of more than 100 pages
4) Articles about skinny celebs in magazines
5) Books which are on the syllabus
6) Encyclopaedias and dictionaries
7) The Beano
8) Music scores,
9) The Harry Potter series
10) Maps and directions
11) Facebook
12) Financial Times
13) Anything in another language
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03-27-2008, 01:22 PM
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| | Mooncalf
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It's on least-loved and most?
That's insane. xD
AND how can people not like Shakespeare?!
Mental. x] | 
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03-27-2008, 01:31 PM
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I so agree with the homework thing XD
I don't understand why HP is on the least loved though o.O | |
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03-27-2008, 01:43 PM
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It is strange how HP is on both lists. I love reading HP. I think Shakespeare is fantastic to read. Some of the things in the most loved list I've never heard of. With the not so liked list, I think about half of the items are interesting to read. | |
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03-27-2008, 02:07 PM
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| | Skrewt
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Originally Posted by RemusBlack  It's on least-loved and most?
That's insane. xD | I think Harry Potter is on the less-liked list because it is a big book. It has too many pages on it and a lot of people don't like a book that has more than 150-200 pages in it. Quote:
Originally Posted by RemusBlack AND how can people not like Shakespeare?! | I think most people don't like Shakespeare as much as they used to today because the english has changed since then and it is not as easy to understand it because it is always written in poems and rymes. I think most teenagers don't like those kind of books today. For them Shakespeare is boring and means nothing to them. Not everyone is fascinated by it today, there are other books that took it's place. | |
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03-27-2008, 02:20 PM
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| | Dugbog
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weird that HP its on both list..
homework tops the least loved? haha
hilarious!! | |
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03-27-2008, 02:23 PM
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| | Bowtruckle
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I dunno, I pretty much liked everything on both lists lol | |
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03-27-2008, 02:23 PM
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| | Faerie
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On both lists? Okay . . .
WHAT? Shakespeare, not liked? I agree with you, shirelbb, but still! | |
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03-27-2008, 02:45 PM
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Hmm, seems to spark quite divergent reactions. *shrugs*
As for Shakespeare, I can understand why they wouldn't like it, even if I disagree. =] | |
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03-27-2008, 02:58 PM
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| | Bowtruckle
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I can't believe it!!!~ apparently we are a bipolar lot when it comes to Harry Potter-or have different people in us. lol!  | |
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03-27-2008, 03:01 PM
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Least liked?  Losers  
Anne Frank, huh? That's interesting, considering it's commonly an assigned read in school, in the US at least  I remember reading Anne Frank on my own before it was assigned. I felt so smart | |
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03-27-2008, 03:15 PM
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| | Glumbumble
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Least liked?! What?! How can they ..? Harry Potter on a "least liked list" - I don't believe it..
Weird, HP is on both lists.. ! Hmm | |
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03-27-2008, 03:19 PM
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Lol, least-loved and most-loved?  | 
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03-27-2008, 05:42 PM
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| | Chizpurfle
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the only people who don't like harry potter are the people who are too lazy, stupid, or opinionated to even give them a chance. a lot school related stuff is on the least liked list lol. | |
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03-27-2008, 06:31 PM
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| | Augurey
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LOL. That's strange. | |
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03-27-2008, 07:28 PM
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| | Nogtail
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On both lists? ;/ Why? Quote:
Originally Posted by hpfan5 the only people who don't like harry potter are the people who are too lazy, stupid, or opinionated to even give them a chance. | I agree with you  | |
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03-27-2008, 08:33 PM
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|  SotS Head WriterUltimate PotteriteOriginal originalGriffin
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That's strange... | |
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03-27-2008, 09:16 PM
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| | Grindylow
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It's quite interesting. Most of my friends are divided in the same way, mostly because they don't know what the series is about, and consider it's only a faerie tale, or because they're the kind of people who only read non-fiction. | |
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03-27-2008, 10:46 PM
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| | Imp
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that's kinda funny | |
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03-28-2008, 12:35 AM
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| | Imp
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Harry Potter should never be on the Least Loved  Its not fair.. But at least they got on the LOVED list !! | |
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03-28-2008, 01:23 AM
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|  KA ModSBFC Spam Control Headz&Tailz<3Phoenix
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People who haven't read the book dislike Harry Potter very much. Think of all the people that tried to ban it from schools and libraries. People think it's evil and a money-making machine rather than appreciate it. They are bias because they have never actually picked up the books themselves.
My opinion, anyway. | |
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03-28-2008, 01:42 AM
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| The Fork. Fear me. Erumpent
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lol most on that list don't even count as books. | |
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03-28-2008, 02:16 AM
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| | Imp
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Most kids like Anne Frank bc it is relatable!
HP is hard for some kids to read all the way through bc as the books progress, they are more adult and younger kids are reading them!! I am sure they love the stories they just can't always read the books themselves!
As for Shakespeare, it is a Love to Hate it relationship, they enjoy the concept of the stories, most kids just don't want to take the time to read them!! | |
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03-28-2008, 04:21 AM
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| | Kappa
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harry potter should be number 1 :d | |
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03-28-2008, 08:50 AM
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| | Crup
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Gotta be a typo. | |
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