/lit/ - Literature

>>11697915
Hopefully I won't live enough to see that happen

>>11697924
Agree

J.K. Rowling was probably the last author you could consider truly "great", as in, remembered by the ages. After her, Amazon self-publishing took off and now all the potentially good and memorable authors are going to drown under the drek of millions of barely-edited shit. Literary arts have died.

>>11697915
I cannot believe a truly great author would write some of the dullest literature in the history of the written word. 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.

>>11699539
based

>>11699539
>god-tier
>atlas shrugged

>mid-tier
>ulysses

>>11699539
Great bait.

10/10 actually

>>11697915
haha Shakespeare and Tolstoy btfo. imagine being slotted behind Rowling and King.

>>11697915
so Charles Dickens is the favorite author of sandnigs.gtk

>>11699642
>>11699653
>being this new

>>11699539
Someone needs to tell that old bastard who authored this shit meme review that James Bond is garbage.