As we move toward 2010, The Telegraph is taking a look back at the top 100 books of the past decade. Coming in at No. 1 is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The entry reads:
If you don’t know what a Muggle is by now, you’re either Rip van Winkle or enormously stubborn. This is the seventh and final instalment in Rowling’s record-breaking series about Harry Potter, the world’s most famous lightning-scarred boy wizard and his tribulations with Lord Voldemort. We’ve seen Harry grow from a spindly, messy-haired 11-year-old into a heroic young adult. Children have grown up with him, finding in his battles metaphors for their own. This volume alone sold 15 million copies in the first 24 hours after it was published. Whether wickedly skewering suburbia, or bringing Harry, Ron and Hermione into mortal danger, Rowling is never less than absorbing. Some may sneer at her books, but they are triumphant sagas about the defeat of evil that tap into our basic hunger for stories. Most importantly, she makes reading a 700-page book seem easy. This one even has a quotation from Aeschylus as its epigraph. It stands as a cornerstone of the decade, a melding of high and low culture that appeals to all ages and nations.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone came in at No. 41 on the top 100 films of the past decade list. Do you think Deathly Hallows deserves the top spot?
Thanks to Leaky!
Posted by Micah
11-24-2009
at 1:18 PM
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 13:51:26
the phenomenon continues. Yay. Twilight is only 32, which is not bad. But thank heavens DH beat twilight and by a long shot. Coming up at # 2 is Dreams From my Father by Babarck Obama which I wouldnt look twice on the shelf. Autobiographies are not my thing. Besides, im not even American and Obamas book will read more like an English assignment than a hobby. Coming up at #3, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Okay movie, nothing spectacular. Got bored by the book half way through.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 13:52:40
DH of course wasnt the best book in the series, but it certainly had the most spectacular release. I guess if you have to pick a single Harry Potter book to win the award, it would be DH.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 13:54:47
That is SO cool. It was totaly deserved!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 13:54:53
Yes! That is so awesome. I feel a sense of pride in loving harry Potter. Not to mention Deathly Hallows is the best book of all time. It definitely deserved the top spot. Yay for Harry Potter!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 13:56:21
Im so proud of DH!!!
This is awesome. It deserves it!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 14:05:35
I dont think the book itself should get the top spot - with HP you kind of have to think of them as one long book in my opinion - they dont work without the others.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 14:09:45
YES! And I agree with JoshB - it should be the whole series instead of just one.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 14:11:12
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 15:24:03
Yes. Deathly Hallows is a marvelous legend of a book. It IS the best in the series. It is the one that has a remarkably distinct and fulfilled theme of its own: Death. I stand in awe at the way Death was portrayed in the story. The epigraph, the deaths of major characters, we even get to follow Harry as he experiences Death. Death was even a character in the story! The plot was seamless, woven by Jo with exquisite skill. And how often do adults and children alike willingly read a 700 page book, with the only comment being made about its size is wishing it was longer? Deathly Hallows was a worthy and satisfying finale to the phenomenal series, and the day it was released was historic and will not be repeated.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 15:26:20
Im disgusted with the comments the adults are giving the series in that article, ignorant idiots have no idea what they are missing..
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 15:52:20
All the Harry Potters should be on the list...theyre all brilliant! Great choice!! Its amazing the effect a book aka Harry Potter has had on the world and the people who deny that clearly have issues.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 16:19:59
HELL YEAH Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was the best fiction book in history! and the movies will even be twice BETTER!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 16:40:41
Yay! 15 Million people opening night cant be wrong!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 16:52:58
Awesome!!!!! Deathly Hallows totally deserves this and I agree 100% because it is my absolute FAVORITE book in the WHOLE WORLD!!! :)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 16:57:50
@WeasleyTwin: I know. I hate it when some people do that because theyre in denial about HPs success. Instead of reading them they just write them off as childrens books and say they dont deserve it. So annoying. If youre going to dislike something at least have some kind of reasoning behind it. Dont just do it because youre jealous for whatever reason. Harry Potter deserves that more than any other book, but they did leave some other brilliant books off that list in place of other media-hyped trash.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 17:13:05
hahahaha 1 vs 32 Harry Potter owns twilight
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 17:18:08
@mad_nose_moody: That goes without saying. We all know that.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 17:28:34
Yay! It totally deserves it. It will forever be my number one
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 17:31:08
Heh, love the little comment on Twilight. Bout sums it up. Im glad to see DH on there. It was not my favorite, mainly due to the death of my favorite character. That can really turn me off a book or a series. Im just now picking up a series I liked in middle school again because they killed my favorite off halfway through. Im also glad to see another book on the list I love, even though it is way up there. There are many books I have read that should have been on there but Im not going to name names. What matters most is two books I cared for made it, woo!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 17:56:48
YES!!! definitely deserved. congrats to jk!
on twilight vs hp, the little comment on twilight (at a meager #32) was this:
"Astonishing, mainly for the ineptitude of her prose. Teen vampire schlock that has the nation
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 18:10:01
Yay! DH is the best book EVER!!!! :D Beat that, Twilight!!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 18:39:53
Loving some of the comments! (*42 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Sixty volumes, 50,000 biographies, 60 million words. A monument against oblivion.*) Sounds thrilling! And Twilights comment is so true! (*32 Twilight - Astonishing, mainly for the ineptitude of her prose. Teen vampire schlock that has the nation
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 18:43:45
ARGH! My full comment didnt post! I aint writing it out again! Oh well.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 18:49:05
For anyone who DOESNT know the word "SCHLOCK" means cheap; trashy; noun. 2. something of cheap or inferior quality; junk...Sounds about right to me.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 18:56:39
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 19:01:04
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 19:11:55
Awesome. This totally deserves the number 1 spot. Yes, Harry Potter definitely sums up the past decade for me.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 22:01:21
saying harry potter is the top book of the 00s is like saying the beatles were the top band of the 60s. its a given, obviously! all is right with the world.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-24 22:17:06
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-25 04:58:40
It deserves the top spot! This is a cause of celebration! woooot! :D
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-25 06:42:54
Is anyone surprised really? Although POA was my favorite book in the series, I guess 15 m copies as the opening sale is not something that can be ignored. :D GO JK! And, about Twilight, the less said, the better.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-25 09:53:29
TAKE THAT, TWILIGHT! Woooo! Go HP! OF COURSE it deserves the top spot! Im proud to be one of the 15 million! But how did Twilight beat The Amber Spyglass??? Yuck!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-25 10:13:43
Congrats to both JK Rowling and the HP fanbase. (we where right)
It had to be either the first book of the series or the last. and DH is the most important of them all, so I agree.
I love Twilight as well. But Twilight is by no means epic written. IT will never be as good as any of the other novels on the list TO BE HONEST. I DON*T CARE about what twihard thinks or Twi haters. OK.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-25 13:05:09
Glad to see so many people are on my side with the Twilight thing. haha Harry OWNS twilight. 1-32 try again vampires...
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-25 13:47:42
OMG! Deathly Hallows REALLY deserves it! I heard the J.K. Rowling was named one of the best writers in history. ANd you cant even compare Twilight w/ Harry Potter! Harry Potter has earned more money, has more fans,it has won wayyy more awards, and theyre making a theme park out of it! Nothing can beat Harry Potter!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-25 15:23:48
HPs success is epic., anyone who is in denial is enormously stubborn like the article said. Harry Potter for the WIN. 1 vs. 32. haha. :)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-25 22:14:36
YES! goes without saying that DH is epic. glad its still getting recognition :)
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-26 03:52:56
Harry Potter SO deserves it.
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-26 10:31:14
wowww!!dis z awesum...harry potter dh desrves dis!!its d most wonderful book ihv ever read!!!i feel proud 2 be a hp fan...n own da bookzz!!
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Posted by: - Posted on: 2009-11-27 03:58:07
Take that haters!
And so it deserves to be! HP is only the greatest book series ever.
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