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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]you didn't say great literature you said a great book. And I decided that because of the phenomenon that is HP, it's a great book for many different reasons other than its literary merit, of which personally, and as a children's librarian, I think it's up there. It was a ground breaking children's book. [/quote] “Great book” is a term of art. It isn’t synonymous with “really good” or “commercially successful” or “everyone loves it” or “they made roller coasters in a theme park based on it” or “sold billions in merch” or whatever. The term refers specifically to literary merit. The kind of literary merit critics and lit professors concern themselves with, not children’s librarians. [/quote]
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