I’m 22 and recently watched the Harry Potter films, I enjoyed the charming whimsical oeuvre of 1 and 2. I thought maybe I should read the series or something else like the Earthsea books.Is it shameful to read child fantasy books at this age?
You can probably read them all in two weeks since they are children's books. Read them and see if you feel any shame afterward.
>>24698135The fact that you felt the need to ask this question shows that you already know the answer.
>>24698155Yes I do feel ashamed but then I remember I live in a world where scrolling instageam and tiktok for 4 hours a day is considered normal.
>>24698135I read them at 30. Didn't feel shame but didn't get much out of them either
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>>24698206Thank you you are right
>>24698135>the charming whimsical oeuvre of 1Bro>>24698206Gay
>>24698135Those books to me, as a child reading them foe the first time, were for lack of a better term, magical. Bought the complete boxset a couple years ago as a 30-something man and I only made it through the first two. But don't let me or any other faggot on 4chinz dissuade you, try them for yourself.
>>24698605How old were you when you read them?In my defence I‘m ESL and middle eastern I didn’t care about books as a kid unfortunately.
>>24698135The weltanschaaung of that oeuvre lacks elan vital in itself but it may entertain you ephemerally
>>24698135>Is it shameful to read child fantasy books at this age?No as long as it isn’t the majority of what you read. Only 30-something year old women read YA these days anyway
>>24698135I hope you pirated them.
>>24698135I'm 24 and have already seen the movies, decided to give reading the books a try and got through 4 of them until I lost speed. They were quite good, I intend to go back and finish the series at some point. I didnt feel any shame, on the contrary I felt reading Harry Potter was a literary rite of passage I missed out on as a child, and that it was long overdue. Still, its no Wheel of Time.
>>24698143>You can probably read them all in two weeksI wish people instead had this directly applicable attitude towards Proust.
>>24698135no lol, it's never shameful to occasionally watch or read children's media, at least not in this day and age. anyone who says otherwise cares too much.you should only worry if most of what you watch or read is/becomes children's entertainment. just don't exclusively blast your brain with black-and-white narratives or simple entertainment and you'll be good.
>>24698135>Harry Potter>oeuvreI think Peppa Pig is a tour de force, clearly a transcendental masterpiece from the director's oeuvre.
The books were incredible to me as a kid, don’t really interest me as an adult but if you enjoy the movies then you will definitely like the books as JKR has a nice turn of a phrase and sense of humor. It’s sure as hell better literature than what most women and probably men read these days In an age when grown man are into comic books and manga, nothing in particular shameful. Watching MLO is shameful. But. Some kid shit I will still read like The Hobbit and Alice in Wonderland. I’d probably read HP even from time to time except it’s a massive undertaking. But if you love the movies then the undertaking will go by very fast
>>24698749Which books have that elan vital in their weltanschauung?
>>24698135Just watch more Chris Columbus movies
>>24698206Based.
>>24699523>Peppa PigI really see it as a kind of mirror reflecting the petty bourgeois Weltenschauung of Western liberal society. You can see it in the diversity of animal kingdoms, where culture, biology, and identity only represent a trivial cosmetic change of one over the other. I remember one episode where the The Lion (don't ask for a source, I was a child) meets Peppa for the first time. Now, at that time I was enamoured of lions and the strength they represented; I had a lion pattern blanket, a safari book with stories about lions, a bookmark slotted into my encyclopedia with sensational facts about the killing power of the lion—the λέων as I liked to call it—and a stuffed Simba toy that I thought would imbue me with the strength to lash out against my father's nightly beatings.To see the Lion, bared of his fangs, his Will a mere joke before the cast of nonsense animals, pigs, rabbits, mice and all reflected in my little eyes filled me with disgust even then. To this day, I remember the first joke:>Roar!Says the lion.>Oh no! A wild animal has escaped!The joke, of course, being cleverer than the writers had intended. Where could this 'wild' animal have escaped from? The prison of the Zoo. And where might he have escaped to? The very same one that strips him of his pride and Will. That indeed, no freedom exists for Lions was the sharpest contact my young mind had with the failings of Western liberalism. I remember shutting off the TV in a fit of rage, tears bursting from my eyelids as I buried my face in my striped Lion blanket. Not even the Lion could escape his humiliation.Evidently, I was not Peppa. Daddy Pig did not beat Peppa. Mommy Pig did not tell Peppa he shouldn't have been born. If I was not among the happy, smiling faces of the zoo animals, I was the lion oppressed by pigs who ought to be dashed upon the mesas, flesh rent from their bones and eyes plucked by vultures. At the very least, I was spawned by predators and felt myself to be one.My disgust for the show boiled over, and I designed never again to let Daddy Lion hurt me. That night, during a rather mundane beating, I threatened to call the police if he continued; That was my first visit to the hospital, where out of abounding fear I told the nurse I had fallen from a tree and broke both arms, several ribs, and my ankle.After that, I threw away all of my lion related paraphernalia. Whenever Granny Lion would visit, smiling and hands full of Safari books and Kings of the Jungle, I would joyfully, farcically, accept them. After she left, the toys would retire to the darkest pits of my closet, to be thrown out with the garbage when the guilt of betraying her kindness receded.It was precisely then that I saw liberalism for the farce that it was. I realized that only those who had the power to crush—to destroy—could survive. The lion had to bare its fangs and not be bared if it was to become King.I never did like lions again.
>>24698135The books are fun you should absolutely read them.The movies completely fuck up some of the later storylines, so much is left out of the fourth movie from the book that it becomes impossible to do the story justice later on. The movies from 4-8 are all crap imo, but the books are all pretty kino (although 6 suffers from a lot of awful filler).Absolutely nothing shameful in reading kids books as an adult. The great thing is that because they are so simple you can read the books incredibly fast, there is for sure an art in keeping young fiction quick and readable and these books do it well.
>>24698206Never really liked CS Lewis because he seemed so at pains to reconcile his love of heathenous folk tales with his over the top christcuckery, there's some weird self-loathing for his own interests going on there.
>>24701759Unironically that's why I like him.
read snicket instead
>>24701792Fair actually, I also think perhaps a lot of these popular English children's authors like Lewis, Roald Dahl and JK were great partially for their own particular brand of messed up internal strife going on and how that gets expressed in their world.Some of the funny stuff with Lewis is how much he rees about co-educational schooling in The Silver Chair and the lazy attacks on the atheist dwarves in The Last Battle
>>24701748weltanschauung*
