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Sep. 6th, 2004 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafishI never really thought my 78-year-old dad was the type. I told my brothers about this and they had a hard time believing it, too.
His main entertainment fare, when he emerges from his room to migrate into the den in the evening, consists of a fairly steady diet of John Wayne movies, the History Channel, WW II movies and westerns. He will on occasion watch Monty Python and to be fair, he was the original Star Trek fan in this household. However, his normal reading fare consists of Guns and Ammo magazine, Tom Clancy, various technical books on reloading, historical novels, mainly about the American West, and the occasional spy novel.
But after watching the movies on HBO, then buying the videos (and watching them over several times - I still hear the music coming out of the den on occasion), he found out I had the books and and asked to read them. I was astounded that while he's not a particularly fast reader, and in fact suffers from a bit of dyslexia, he blew through all four books that I had in a single weekend. Last weekend, he brought home the latest in the series because it had finally come out in paperback and it was on sale at the grocery store. He actually read it before I did (mainly because I'm trying to get some other stuff finished first).
I'm talking, of course, about Harry Potter. My dear ol' dad (he actually signs birthday cards D.O.D.), WWII veteran, NRA lifetime member, wannabe tough guy (the real reason he hates "tearjerkers" is because he cries himself) is a Harry Potter fan.
His main entertainment fare, when he emerges from his room to migrate into the den in the evening, consists of a fairly steady diet of John Wayne movies, the History Channel, WW II movies and westerns. He will on occasion watch Monty Python and to be fair, he was the original Star Trek fan in this household. However, his normal reading fare consists of Guns and Ammo magazine, Tom Clancy, various technical books on reloading, historical novels, mainly about the American West, and the occasional spy novel.
But after watching the movies on HBO, then buying the videos (and watching them over several times - I still hear the music coming out of the den on occasion), he found out I had the books and and asked to read them. I was astounded that while he's not a particularly fast reader, and in fact suffers from a bit of dyslexia, he blew through all four books that I had in a single weekend. Last weekend, he brought home the latest in the series because it had finally come out in paperback and it was on sale at the grocery store. He actually read it before I did (mainly because I'm trying to get some other stuff finished first).
I'm talking, of course, about Harry Potter. My dear ol' dad (he actually signs birthday cards D.O.D.), WWII veteran, NRA lifetime member, wannabe tough guy (the real reason he hates "tearjerkers" is because he cries himself) is a Harry Potter fan.
