What am I in for?
fun
>>24114168Whatever anyone tells you, they've never had a greater reading experience than Harry Potter in their childhood. And they never will. Truth hurts.
>>24114168Dullness.
>Nel suggested that the unflattering characterisation of the extremely conventional, status-conscious, materialistic Dursleys was Rowling's reaction to the family policies of the British government in the early 1990s, which treated the married heterosexual couple as the "preferred norm", while the author was a single mother. Harry's relationships with adult and juvenile wizards are based on affection and loyalty. This is reflected in his happiness whenever he is a temporary member of the Weasley family throughout the series, and in his treatment of first Rubeus Hagrid and later Remus Lupin and Sirius Black as father-figures.Feminist trash written by a spinster. Just read Dahl, Lewis or even Austen instead.
>>24114168Lifelong virginity.
I thought it was pretty ok when I was 12.
Depending on how bitter and miserable and you are as a person, this can be a very enjoyable experience, easy to read, fun, imaginative, or they can be childish, dull, and boring. Either way, theyre not literature. But you’re still reading and working your brain muscles which will always be better than doomscrolling or playing video games. I reread these at 26 years old and still loved them. So there you go
>>24114184A Series of Unfortunate Events is incredibly much more impressive to me than Harry Potter, both back when I read each series as a kid to even thinking about them now today. HP was fun but shallow, ASOUE sticks with me.
>>24114168It is the first book of what may be the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.>a-at least the books were good though"No!"The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.
>>24114800This copy pasta lied to me, I reread the goddamn book and they only actually do the "stretched his legs" thing once and its within like the first 15 pages.
>>24114168What's it about?
>>24114168Make sure to follow the chart to fully enjoy it>>24114184I read Percy Jackson which is like Harry Potter but starting with the greeks
>>24114558ASOUE is garbage compared to HP.>What if the climax of the story is in the penultimate book and not the last one???>What if the we never solve all the mysteries that drove the whole story???Rowling wrote a much better story with more consistent characters, lore and mysteries.>B...BUT SILLY NAMES!!! VFD!!!Fuck you. ASOUE is for toddlers who do not understand what they are reading, while HP requires you to remember details happened 2 or 3 books before the one you are reading.
>>24114168doesn't get passable until book 4. then it's good for 5 and maybe 6. 7 sucks. have fun
>>24115054lmao no joke I actually did read most of those books before reading harry potter. I do believe I would have enjoyed much more if I read it in that order
>>24114168Well its a challenging read but if you can muscle through it, its pretty fun.
>>24115195Yeah yeah keep reading about how the little British boys solve Nancy Drew mysteries, scream abracadabra at each other and fight the evil No-Nose wizard-Hitler.
>>24114800>Atlas Shrugged and Les Miserables in god-tier>Tolkien in shit-tierVery impressive bait xir.
a mediocre children's book that's inexplicably popular with adults
>>24114184>implying
>>24116203qrd on redwall? It seems adorable but idk why it’s so beloved. Worth reading as an adult?
>>24116212It's been 20 years, so I don't remember much. I've never reread any of them, and it's not like harry potter which is entrenched in popular culture. It's not that good in retrospect. The storylines are stereotypical good herbivores vs evil carnivore conflicts; once you know what species a character is, you basically know how it's gonna play out. The author also tends to recycle plotlines with new generations, so after a few volumes it gets quite repetitive. So, yeah. Maybe a bit dull for an adult, unless you're really curious about the series. It's in the same ballpark as jp light novels basically; adventuring anthropomorphic animals and detailed of descriptions of food. It's just that after the dinosaur stage and the shark stage many young boys go through a medieval stage, and stories of otter knights and mouse monks going to war against weasel bandits hit right in that demographic. Hence it was super popular with kids when it came out.
>>24114168a comfy time
>>24114168Whybis he standing in front of that moving train?
>>24114184Such a fucking lie I had Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson and C.H.E.R.U.B.Even as a child I think I was like, completely uninterested in the Harry Potter books, even though I read them all
SEVERUS SNAPE GETS PANTSED AND ASSRAPED BY HARRY'S DAD IN THE FIFTH BOOK LMAO
>>24114168was too cool for it when it came out. and now jick rowl is too phobic for me to pick it up.
>>24114184This but unironically. I still have a common flashback like nostalgia trip of a specific yet indistinct late fall afternoon in my 7th grade year reading Azkaban in my room just after the sun set and waiting for dinner to be ready. I will never have a a more comfy reading experience in my life.
TERFy nonsense
>>24116838In a sense, yes. And here’s why that’s a good thing…
