Mephisto, I felt the same way you did when the series was just starting to get insanely popular. I read through about a third of the first book and it just struck me as escapist fare aimed at children. The poor little bullied boy becomes a wizard...gee whiz, wouldn't that be swell? I couldn't pick the stuff up until the resuergence that came last summer with the third movie. It really was a labor to get through the first book, but by the third I was engaged enough to enjoy the series to its current level of completion.
It moves beyond the purely kiddie stuff as the series progresses. The story is accessible to children on one level but I doubt even mature readers will catch absolutely everything that's going on.
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