Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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Which book do you think will be remembered by history Harry Potter or Twilight?
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I was just wondering if you thought that the book will be remembered.
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Lisa wrote: "Harry Potter!"Good on you!
Harry Potter is already a classic.
HArry Potter- but Twighlight wiill too but not as much
Harry Potter for sure, it's incredible in all ways. Twilight will only be remembered for being awful.
HARRY HARRY HARRY WILL GO DOWN IS HISTORY!!!!
both, because they were so debated about. But im a Potter fan, myself.
Harry Potter will be remember as an AWESOME book but Twilight will be remember as a sappy girly book that was popularish at the time but wont be in the future.
Definitely Harry Potter. It speaks to a much broader range of people. People of both sexes and all ages enjoy Harry Potter. Twilight is definitely a book targeted at and enjoyed by females.
Harry Potter will be remembered and people will still be reading the series a hundred years form now. Within 10 to 15 years Twilight will be barely be a memory in the mind of readers let alone the wider public.
Harry Potter is famous. Twilight is infamous. They'll both be remembered, but for different things.
I agree with Ricco. I look at Harry Potter as something that can stand the test of time; the style, the characters, the subject matter, ect is universal and lasting. While Twilight, although engaging now, is essentially a reworking of the Romeo and Juliet story, and sorry to say it, Shakespeare will continue to be read longer than this particular series. Although I am not saying anything bad about Meyer. She has real potential to create a story that will stand the test of time, she just hasn't done it yet. When she does, I will be one of the first to applaud her talent.
I've enjoyed both but definitely Harry Potter. It'll be up there Narnia and Alice etc and will never be forgotten. Whereas I do believe Twilight will fade over time.
I think they will both be remembered for a long time, but Harry Potter, in my opinion, will be read a hundred years from now.
Without question, Harry Potter.
Harry Potter, of course.
Well of course it will be Harry Potter! Twilight is a joke.
Harry Potter. Twilight might be reemebered as a joke, or a really bad book, because if something is really bad, it is remebered for just that.
I think of the Twilight Series as a kind of soft porn. I read the first book because I used to work as a bookseller in the kids/young adult deparment of a big bookstore. The line I remember being repeated (I want to say over and over, but that may be a bit much) was "I licked my lips."And for as much as Harry Potter scared conservative Christians, it was all about the values that should be fostered in kids and the psychological outlook that will help them through difficult times. Who wouldn't like to have 20 minutes of conversation with Dumbledore?
Harry Potter or I will throw that history book out the window
Harry Potter..Twilight is more the movies and for mostly teenage girls 12-15
Harry Potter DEFINITELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Has to be remembered..I will MAKE it be remembered by future generations!
Harry Potter - it has a much wider appeal and variety within the books
I think Twilight will be remembered because of the haters, not the fans. The fans become so much more...noticeable because they want to be more showy of their love for Twilight than the haters hate. Harry Potter doesn't seem to have so many people on so many different sides. Harry Potter you either love, or go "meh" (I have only met a few of these people). There's no fame behind it because of why people don't love it, only because they do.
I love both series but Harry Potter all the way!
Definitely Harry Potter! Twilight is just a bad fad.I do believe that one day the Harry Potter series will be deemed a classical series.
are you serious? Harry Potter.
HARRY POTTER! Already a classic + Twilight is just a frivolous fad.
depends on who's doing the remembering...
By far Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling created a story with such depth and detail it takes you to a new world. Not only have I read the books several times, but I feel the movies stuck to the story. And didn't turn it into something different.Twilight (where the story draws you in) was written very poorly. And then the movies came along and destroyed anything the books had going for them. Destroyed absolutely anything and everything that the books had, and will forever be known for how incredibly bad the acting and scripts are. Plus they turned it from a love story into an action series.
I'd say Harry Potter, but not for the reasons above (although I agree with them.) What will mark Harry Potter is the astonishing degree to which the series made reading "cool." I cannot recall any book in my lifetime which generated such a response, or so much media attention to the phemomenon (including midnight lines of fans waiting to buy the book, French girls reading it in English because they couldn't wait for the French edition, etc.) Whatever the relative merits of the Twilight series, it's "sloppy seconds" compared to the Harry Potter mania.
Harry Potter, of course! It may not be original--I mean, the writing style is almost exactly like Charles Dickens--and thus it might not become an "all-time classic" that's still widely read a hundred years from now; but it's clearly a more significant work than Twilight.
Harry Potter for sure. I'm reading Book 5 at the moment and have just found out a major spoiler about what's to come from my children.I cried when I found out.
Stop posting such questions... Its Harry Potter all the way!
Harry Potter - Twilight is sappy drivel...
Both. They were both a resounding success in their own right. Harry Potter is a classic, yes, I agree. But Twilight hit a nerve with the buying public that will long be remember. It helped shaped a generation and that isn't likely to be forgotten in a hurry. Even if one doesn't like sparkly vampires, enough people - young and old - did to make it have an indelible impression on society. Harry Potter was in a class of it's own, and will always be remembered as the book series that changed the reading world. All strength to JK Rowling and Stephanie Meyer. You have to admire them. They both earned their place in the Hall of Fame.
I won't live long enough to know, but current popularity doesn't equate to lasting value. In their time, Solieri was considered the equal of Mozart. Now he's an obscure side-note in Baroque music. If I had to put my money one place, it would be Harry Potter (although the totally safe bet is Sir Terry Pratchett - now HE can be reasonably compared to Dickens.)
I personally believe that Harry Potter will be set in history more than Twilight. Considering Harry Potter movies were coming out for more then 10 years and Twilight for only like 5. Also, Harry Potter had more popularity with the masses than Twilight.
Sonia wrote: "Harry Potter for sure, it's incredible in all ways. Twilight will only be remembered for being awful."I LIKE!!! It will especially be remembered for the god-awful movies with the terrible actors...
it's hard to tell actually. there is nothing in common between these two stories to compare and decide which one will be remembered. Harry Potter represents a big part of my childhood. i'll always remember how much i wished to have magical powers. but i also remember how much i wanted to believe that vampires are real, and to find my Edward! all in all, each story represents a different chapter in every reader book of life, and for that both of them will be for sure remembered.
Twilight will be remembered like a really bad fad like mullets or something. Harry Potter is a legacy. They'll be holding special courses on it in college in the 22nd century lol....but i think they already do that....
Harry Potter, hands down. Far, far more people have read those books, seen the movies, etc. Twilight will be a brief sensation but Rowling's books have a far wider appeal and that will continue.
Harry Potter for a number of reasons, one of those being that its already a classic. I have not read Twilight, nor do I intend to, but I have seen the first film and didnt like it. Harry Potter is much more popular, even more successful, and in my opinion, better. :)
Definitely Harry Potter. Twilight is a successful franchise like any other but Harry Potter actually changed the way people read. Adults who hadn't read since they were young, young people who didn't read at all. I am a Twilight fan but I don't think you can place them at all in the same category. It is the most successful franchise of all time. You can't knock that. It was, and still is, a phenomenon.
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