I had a teacher who read it to all the kids when I was in grade school. See, I was a bit younger than you when the Potter books first made it big. I still remember the story and I remember being fucking bored by it. It's the most basic, gary-stu garbage ever. Even as a kid, I had learned to read with Adventures of Robin Hood and The Hobbit and was not impressed by Rowling's stale dreck.Kugelfisch wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:53 amThat's not talked about enough. The first book came out in 1998 in Germany but the actual hype was in 2000.rabidtictac wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 9:53 amOn a quality level, also.VoiceOfReasonPast wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:38 pmYou either worship her as a god, or hate her as a devil. She's pretty much the Doge of literature.
I was 14 and even back then preferred books over movies. I was in the perfect target demographic.
I've never finished it. Haven't even gotten a quarter through. It's fucking boring, longwinded and tedious. It felt like I was too old for this children's novel.
If you're past 20 and enjoy the Pothead novels, you're a mouthbreather.
Normies have shit taste. I won't try to argue I had amazing discernment at the age of 8 or whatever, but I was never a normie and thus never plagued by normalfag bad taste disease.
That's exactly what it is! They're like turbo autismos who never learned they're autistic. Because they're normalfags, they assume how they feel about (((IP))) is perfectly normal way to feel about (((IP))) and not retarded at all.They hold on to this life-defining IP like CWC to Sanic and all have their blue arms moment.
I've noticed in general a refusal among idiots readers to differentiate the author from the work. They either fault the work for the opinions held privately by the author, or they fault the author for opinions portrayed within the work.
This is why morons are always screaming about and misunderstanding stories like Starship Troopers. Do not assume you can read a single novel from an author and you immediately know everything that author believes or feels. The author creates the story and the politics present in the story may exist as a consequence of the narrative, or because the author is playing with ideas, or perhaps for some other reason you simply do not understand. The work does not define the author and the author does not define the work.
Having said that, it's pointless to apply any deep literary criticism of J.K. Rowling's hackfraud stories. I'm just extending her a polite courtesy I'd give to any author.